Juan Meneses is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent (Minnesota, 2019).

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sensing the Postpolitical

Juan Meneses

1. The Infrastructural Aesthetic: Materialist Politics in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel

Christopher Breu

2. Irrational Exuberance: The Politics of Start-up Futurism

Sherryl Vint

3. Un violador en tu camino: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance

Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page

4. Thinking Jacques RanciÈre with Ursula K. Le Guin: Aesthetics and Politics in a Postpolitical Age

Robert P. Marzec

5. Wayward Possibilities: Errant Black Women and the Intimacies of Freedom

Matthew Scully

6. False Specters of the Political: Revisitation, Digital Documentary Vernacular, and the Postpolitical after January 6

Stephen Charbonneau

7. Dissensus, Refusal, Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C

Eric Lemmon

8. A Haunted Present: Postpolitics, Nuclear Waste, and the Colonization of the Future

Juan Meneses

Afterword: Between Two Endings, or Prolegomena for Another End

Erik Swyngedouw

Contributors

Index