Stephen Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer memory takes a monumental turn
Foucault in Brazil
Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism
In their article, “Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism,” Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend of centrist liberalism, a Kress cycle of managerial capitalism, and three Kondratieff waves. These can be understood by the addition of implied terms in Marx’s advanced discussion of the commodity-form through an approach that Shapiro calls Social State Marxism
Decolonizing the Undead
Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing it's cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial and Neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, …
Algorithmic Television in the Age of Large-scale Customization
One challenge that Television Studies faces today is how to respond to the rise of an industry increasingly organized by what Antoinette Rouvroy calls “data behavioralism.” The rise of streaming prestige television, exemplified by Netflix, has significant implications within the U.S. screen industry, but the “Netflix effect,” as McDonald and Smith-Rowsey call it, is more than just a change in the industrial mode of production, means of distributi…
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides an up-to-date survey of the life of and full range of writings by Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. Through the late twentieth century, Brockden Brown was best known as an important author of political romances in the gothic mode that were widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarshi…
Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown
"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Brown's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Brown's fictional and non-fictional writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property rel…
World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent
Mark J. Miller. Cast Down
One way to situate recent American literary and cultural studies is by asking which of two constructions of Adam Smith has been referenced. On the one hand, there is the Smith of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), perceived as a foundational text for economic and political liberalisms. In a broad, uncomplicated version, these liberalisms share a core belief in the unfettered individual as the basic unit for con…
NBCFail
The XXX Olympic Games in London, England was the most-watched event in U.S. television history, with more than 219 million viewers tuning in during the Games. However, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) elected to show a number of events to U.S. audiences in prime time via tape delay, rather than broadcasting them live. As a result NBC encountered a great deal of criticism about its coverage, particularly on the online microblogging site…
From capitalist to communist abstraction
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King achieves a new novelistic form that narrates different capitalist temporalities simultaneously – in his case, the classic logistic of capitalism and its particular contemporary form in neoliberalism. A reading of his novel suggests a solution to the goal of cultural materialist theory. By rereading the second and third volumes of Marx's Capital, we can perceive the absence of a term – fixed labour-power – that…
How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Rationale Overview Note on Translation Part One: Torture 1. The Body of the Condemned 2. The Spectacle of the Scaffold Part Two: Punishment 1. Generalized Punishment 2. The Gentle Way in Punishment Part Three: Discipline 1. Docile Bodies 2. The Means of Correct Training 3. Panopticism Part Four: Prison 1. Complete and Austere Institutions 2. Illegalities and Delinquency 3. The Carceral Suggestions for Further Reading Index
Intellectual Labor Power, Cultural Capital, and the Value of Prestige
What lies at the root of academic remuneration in a culture of professionalized celebrity? I take this question as an opportunity to reconsider the notion of cultural capital. Discounting the idea that "intellectual labor" exists, I argue that we need instead to discuss "intellectual labor power," the process through which thought performance, which includes teaching, is commodified on the price-setting marketplace. When viewed in this light, Pie…
How to Read Marx's Capital
Sources and Resources
The reward and challenge for a reader of Benita Parry’s Postcolonial Studies 1 is the treasure of encountering a critical practice fundamentally motivated by a Left experience of political communit
Renovating Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution
Charles Brockden Brown may have felt the belated effect of the American Revolution far more keenly and directly than any other American writer. Born a Quaker in 1771 in an increasingly antipatriarchal, Whiggish Philadelphia that was throwing off the legacy of William Penn as ruthlessly as it was seeking independence from the Crown, and whose raging paranoia needed to see conspiracy in parliament and pacifism, Brown experienced revolution as a hor…
Messy Beginnings
Reviewed by: Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies Stephen Shapiro Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies. Edited by Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts. New Brunswick, New Jersy: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Schueller and Watts choose their title well. The collection of essays “messes about” with the pre-1830 U.S. national imaginary by charting the “complex series of political negotiations, mac…
Sexuality
a lost world. Does the dearth of print comments and court prosecutions mean Americans found their sexual relations unremarkable, for whatever political, denominational, and personal reasons, or have we only begun to discover ways to discern the period's complex attitudes? Most recent sexuality studies build on Michel Foucault's writing, but two key absences, one historiographic, the other methodological, problematize its usefulness for early Amer…
From capitalist to communist abstraction
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King achieves a new novelistic form that narrates different capitalist temporalities simultaneously – in his case, the classic logistic of capitalism and its particular contemporary form in neoliberalism. A reading of his novel suggests a solution to the goal of cultural materialist theory. By rereading the second and third volumes of Marx's Capital, we can perceive the absence of a term – fixed labour-power – that…
Intellectual Labor Power, Cultural Capital, and the Value of Prestige
What lies at the root of academic remuneration in a culture of professionalized celebrity? I take this question as an opportunity to reconsider the notion of cultural capital. Discounting the idea that "intellectual labor" exists, I argue that we need instead to discuss "intellectual labor power," the process through which thought performance, which includes teaching, is commodified on the price-setting marketplace. When viewed in this light, Pie…
Algorithmic Television in the Age of Large-scale Customization
One challenge that Television Studies faces today is how to respond to the rise of an industry increasingly organized by what Antoinette Rouvroy calls “data behavioralism.” The rise of streaming prestige television, exemplified by Netflix, has significant implications within the U.S. screen industry, but the “Netflix effect,” as McDonald and Smith-Rowsey call it, is more than just a change in the industrial mode of production, means of distributi…
Sexuality
a lost world. Does the dearth of print comments and court prosecutions mean Americans found their sexual relations unremarkable, for whatever political, denominational, and personal reasons, or have we only begun to discover ways to discern the period's complex attitudes? Most recent sexuality studies build on Michel Foucault's writing, but two key absences, one historiographic, the other methodological, problematize its usefulness for early Amer…
Sexuality
a lost world. Does the dearth of print comments and court prosecutions mean Americans found their sexual relations unremarkable, for whatever political, denominational, and personal reasons, or have we only begun to discover ways to discern the period's complex attitudes? Most recent sexuality studies build on Michel Foucault's writing, but two key absences, one historiographic, the other methodological, problematize its usefulness for early Amer…
Messy Beginnings
Reviewed by: Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies Stephen Shapiro Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies. Edited by Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts. New Brunswick, New Jersy: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Schueller and Watts choose their title well. The collection of essays “messes about” with the pre-1830 U.S. national imaginary by charting the “complex series of political negotiations, mac…
Renovating Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution
Charles Brockden Brown may have felt the belated effect of the American Revolution far more keenly and directly than any other American writer. Born a Quaker in 1771 in an increasingly antipatriarchal, Whiggish Philadelphia that was throwing off the legacy of William Penn as ruthlessly as it was seeking independence from the Crown, and whose raging paranoia needed to see conspiracy in parliament and pacifism, Brown experienced revolution as a hor…
Sources and Resources
The reward and challenge for a reader of Benita Parry’s Postcolonial Studies 1 is the treasure of encountering a critical practice fundamentally motivated by a Left experience of political communit
How to Read Marx's Capital
Intellectual Labor Power, Cultural Capital, and the Value of Prestige
What lies at the root of academic remuneration in a culture of professionalized celebrity? I take this question as an opportunity to reconsider the notion of cultural capital. Discounting the idea that "intellectual labor" exists, I argue that we need instead to discuss "intellectual labor power," the process through which thought performance, which includes teaching, is commodified on the price-setting marketplace. When viewed in this light, Pie…
How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Rationale Overview Note on Translation Part One: Torture 1. The Body of the Condemned 2. The Spectacle of the Scaffold Part Two: Punishment 1. Generalized Punishment 2. The Gentle Way in Punishment Part Three: Discipline 1. Docile Bodies 2. The Means of Correct Training 3. Panopticism Part Four: Prison 1. Complete and Austere Institutions 2. Illegalities and Delinquency 3. The Carceral Suggestions for Further Reading Index
NBCFail
The XXX Olympic Games in London, England was the most-watched event in U.S. television history, with more than 219 million viewers tuning in during the Games. However, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) elected to show a number of events to U.S. audiences in prime time via tape delay, rather than broadcasting them live. As a result NBC encountered a great deal of criticism about its coverage, particularly on the online microblogging site…
From capitalist to communist abstraction
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King achieves a new novelistic form that narrates different capitalist temporalities simultaneously – in his case, the classic logistic of capitalism and its particular contemporary form in neoliberalism. A reading of his novel suggests a solution to the goal of cultural materialist theory. By rereading the second and third volumes of Marx's Capital, we can perceive the absence of a term – fixed labour-power – that…
Mark J. Miller. Cast Down
One way to situate recent American literary and cultural studies is by asking which of two constructions of Adam Smith has been referenced. On the one hand, there is the Smith of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), perceived as a foundational text for economic and political liberalisms. In a broad, uncomplicated version, these liberalisms share a core belief in the unfettered individual as the basic unit for con…
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides an up-to-date survey of the life of and full range of writings by Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. Through the late twentieth century, Brockden Brown was best known as an important author of political romances in the gothic mode that were widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarshi…
Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown
"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Brown's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Brown's fictional and non-fictional writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property rel…
World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent
Algorithmic Television in the Age of Large-scale Customization
One challenge that Television Studies faces today is how to respond to the rise of an industry increasingly organized by what Antoinette Rouvroy calls “data behavioralism.” The rise of streaming prestige television, exemplified by Netflix, has significant implications within the U.S. screen industry, but the “Netflix effect,” as McDonald and Smith-Rowsey call it, is more than just a change in the industrial mode of production, means of distributi…
Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism
In their article, “Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism,” Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend of centrist liberalism, a Kress cycle of managerial capitalism, and three Kondratieff waves. These can be understood by the addition of implied terms in Marx’s advanced discussion of the commodity-form through an approach that Shapiro calls Social State Marxism
Decolonizing the Undead
Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing it's cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial and Neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, …
Queer memory takes a monumental turn
Foucault in Brazil
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