Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Theory of Capitalist Realism - Alison Shonkwiler and Leigh Claire La Berge
We Can’t Afford to Be Realists: A Conversation - Jodi Dean and Mark Fisher
Part I. Novelistic Realisms
Adultery, Crisis, Contract - Andrew Hoberek
Things Break Apart: James Kelman, Ali Smith, and the Neoliberal Novel - Alissa G. Karl
Things As They Were or Are: On Russell Banks’s Global Realisms - Phillip E. Wegner
Part II. Genres of Mediation
Capitalist Realism and Serial Form: The Fifth Season of The Wire - Leigh Claire La Berge
Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move around the Board: Contemporary Hollywood Production in Virtual Time and Space - J. D. Connor
Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Realism in William T. Vollmann’s Poor People - Caren Irr
Part III. After and Against Representation
Beyond Realism - Michael W. Clune
Capitalism and Reification: The Logic of the Instance - Timothy Bewes
Communist Realism - Joshua Clover
Afterword: Unreal Criticism - Richard Dienst
Contributors
Index