Totality and Culture

Contributors to this special issue unpack and seek to reclaim totality as the crucial conceptual ground for understanding the relationship between cultural phenomena and the social, political, and economic forms that render them plausible. “Is theoretical resistance to totality still viable today, in this moment of totalizing crisis?” the authors ask as they explore both the coherences and the tensions that join totality to culture and that have set culture against totality.

Contributors: Nicholas Anderman, Alya Ansari, Ruth Averbach, Kyle Baasch, Roy Chan, Christopher Geary, Zachary Hicks, Jaleh Mansoor, Filippo Menozzi, Sara-Maria Sorentino, Alberto Toscano