Masʹud Zavarzadeh

Biographic Data

ID4451108
NAMEMasʹud Zavarzadeh
GIVEN NAMESMasʹud
FAMILY NAMEZavarzadeh
SIGNATUREZAVARZADEH M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • The Digital Metaphysics of Cognitive Capitalism

    Teresa L Ebert, Masʹud Zavarzadeh et al.ARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2014Cited by: 1References: 6

    In North Atlantic left theory, the law of value “dies” because the dialectics of labor time and value, which is the ground of Marx's labor theory of value, is assumed to have lost its explanatory power in cognitive capitalism in which the time of labor is close to zero, and labor, therefore, is seen as having no central role in producing value. Value becomes immeasurable and exploitation is displaced by expropriation. These assumptions are based …

  • Postmodernism and Social Inquiry

    Jerry L Martins, Jerry L Martin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Psychology1996Cited by: 1

  • Pun(k)deconstruction and the Postmodern Political Imaginary

    Masʹud Zavarzadeh, Mas'Ud ZavarzadehARTICLECultural Critique1992Cited by: 1

    C lassic (post)structuralism-as in the writings of Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and the early texts of Derrida-lost its intellectual effectivity in the mid-1970s since it could no longer explain (away) the social contradictions of late capitalism and its own complicity in these contradictions. Since then, newer, more conservative theoretical inquiries have emerged to contain the critique of capitalism and consequently have come to occupy center stag…

  • Argument” and the Politics of Laughter

    Open AccessMasʹud Zavarzadeh, Mas'Ud ZavarzadehARTICLERethinking Marxism1991Cited by: 2

  • The Anti-Illiteracy Machine

    Open AccessFereydoun Tonekaboni, Masʹud Zavarzadeh et al.ARTICLERethinking Marxism1989

  • Theory as Resistance

    Open AccessMasʹud Zavarzadeh, Mas'Ud ZavarzadehARTICLERethinking Marxism1989

  • The Cultural Politics of the Fiction Workshop

    Donald Morton, Masʹud Zavarzadeh et al.ARTICLECultural Critique1988

    he dominant form of the fiction workshop in creative writing programs of contemporary American literature departments is founded upon a set of assumptions that have all been put in question by postmodern critical theory. These assumptions include the idea of the free subject, the integrity of experience, the sharp separation of reading from writing, the individual voice, the authority of the author, uniqueness of style, the obedience of the reade…

  • Exclusion and Inclusion in Terms of Endearment

    Masʹud ZavarzadehARTICLETelos1988

    The anxiety of loneliness that pervades American life and determines its emotional and social boundaries is ultimately the anxiety of exclusion: the uneasy feeling that one has become redundant in the group(s) to which one desires to belong. By representing social life as a mosaic of various competing groups rather than as a collectivity, the existing social order reproduces its dominant cultural values. A group's main cultural function is the va…

  • Theory Pedagogy Politics

    Masʹud Zavarzadeh, Mas'Ud Zavarzadeh et al.ARTICLEboundary 21986

    The contest over the structure and contents of the humanities curriculum has always been a struggle of various social classes and economic and political groups over the meaning of the social signs that intersect to form codes out of which the is constructed. What is at stake in the humanities curriculum, in other words, is the meaning of the in culture. The fact that almost all existing humanities programs will deny and reject the theory of the i…

  • Traditionalizing the Past

    Masʹud ZavarzadehARTICLETelos1986

    Brooks' Lost in America is a somewhat parodic and amused exploration of the fantasy of freedom. But it is also an ideological maneuver to reinscribe, albeit humorously, the existing economic order by “showing” all oppostition as impractical. In spite of itself, the film is more a discourse on history and the need for a homogenized “tradition” in a consumer society than what it professes to be: an account of self-origination. 11 thus demonstrates …

  • A Stragegy of Containment

    Masʹud ZavarzadehARTICLETelos1985

    In her film, Desperately Seeking Susan, Susan Seidelman continues her inquiry into the relations between the “center” and the “margin” in contemporary culture. The ideology of the film represents the center — the status quo — as the site for mature negotiations of communal values, whereas it constructs the margin — the locus of opposition — as an instance of self-indulgence, transgression, and extremity. This is the same theme in her first film, …

  • The Semiotics of the Foreseen

    Mas''Ud Zavarzadeh, Masʹud Zavarzadeh et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1985

    Contemporary fiction, whether innovative or traditional, is marked by its desire to transgress the established boundaries of intelligibility and the frames of vraisemblance articulated in cultural, logical and literary models of coherence. Although these fictions partake in a variety of literary codes constitutive of narrative genres and their forms of intelligiblity, participation, in Derrida's words, never amounts to belonging (1980:212). The n…

  • The Critic as Conservator

    Masud Zavarzadeh, Masʹud ZavarzadehARTICLEPoetics Today1982

  • Fact and Fiction

    Ria Vanderauwera, John Hollowell et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1980

  • The Persian Short Story Since the Second World War

    Open AccessMasʹud Zavarzadeh, Mas'Ud ZavarzadehARTICLEThe Muslim World1968