Selected Articles and Book Chapters : Publishing : Imre Szeman

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Book Chapters

“Out With the New.” Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada. Ed. Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton and Kirsty Robertson. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. 107-113. Out With the New [119.20KB]
Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman. “Introduction: Marxisms Lost and Found.” Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Introduction [180.29KB]
Brent Bellamy and Imre Szeman. “Life After People: Science Faction and Ecological Futures.” Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Ed. Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson. Middeltown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
“The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and the Canadian Public.” The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope. Ed. Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Suzuki and Politics [265.36KB]
“Manhattanism and Future Cities: Some Provocations on Art and New Urban Forms.” Transnationalism Activism Art. Ed. Kit Dobson and Áine McGlynn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
“Theories of National Literature.” The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Gen. Ed. Peter Logan. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 562-566.
“Cultural Theory: A Glossary.” Cultural Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Imre Szeman and Tim Kaposy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Cultural Theory: A Glossary [742.65KB]
“Globalization, Postmodernism and (Autonomous) Criticism.” Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections. Ed. Petra Rethmann, Imre Szeman and William Coleman. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 66-85. Globalization and Postmodernism [112.96KB]
“Theses on Philosophy in the Age of Finance Capital” (with Nicholas Brown). A Leftist Ontology. Ed. Carsten Strathausen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 33-55. Theses on Philosophy [228.53KB]
“Introduction: Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada” (with Faurschou and Mookerjea). In Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader. Ed. Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou. Duke University Press, 2009. 1-33. Canadian Cultural Studies [1.16MB]
“Tránsito forzoso: un diálogo sobre Black Sea Files y Contained Mobility / Forced Transit: A Dialogue on Black Sea Files and Contained Mobility (with Ursula Biemann). Political Typographies: Visual Essays on the Margins of Europe. Barcelona: Fundació Antonio Tàpies, 2007: 2-35. Forced Transit - Ursula Biemann [835.46KB]
“Cultural Studies and the Transnational.” New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory. Ed. Gary Hall and Claire Birchall. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2006: 200-218.
Globalization.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth and Imre Szeman. Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 458-465. Globalization [173.90KB]
 “The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies.” In Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique. Ed. Caren Irr and Jeffrey Nealon. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002: 59-80.

Articles

“Art Against Oil: Offshore and other experiments in eco-representation.” ??Point of View Magazine” 97 (2015): 29-31. [247.04KB]
“How to Know About Oil: Energy Epistemologies and Political Futures.” Journal of Canadian Studies 47.3 (2013): 145-168. [173.46KB]
“Introduction: Between the Exception and the Rule” (with Sarah Blacker). Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 50 (2014): 7-18. Intro to Public 50 [664.30KB]
“Ownership in Retreat?” Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 50 (2014): 162-168. Ownership in Retreat [305.20KB]
“On Energopolitics.” Anthropological Quarterly 87.2 (2014): 457-468. Energopolitics [460.00KB]
Translation (with Matt MacLellan) of Robert Kurz, “World Power and World-Money: The Economic Function of the US Military-Machine within Global Capitalism and the Background of the New Financial Crisis.” Mediations 27.1-2 (2013). Kurz World Power [33.29KB]
“What the Frack? Combustible Water and Other Late Capitalist Novelties.” Radical Philosophy 177 (Jan/Feb 2013): 2-7.
“Oil Imag(e)inaries: Critical Realism and the Oil Sands” (co-written with Maria Whiteman). Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 3.2 (2012): 46-67. Oil Imag(e)inaries [1.26MB]
Editor, “Petrofictions,” special section of American Book Review 33.3 (2012). Petrofictions [2.37MB]
“Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries.” Journal of American Studies 46.2 (2012): 423-439. Crude Aesthetics [122.02KB]
“Global Cultural Studies?” Minnesota Review 76 (2011): 141-155. Global Cultural Studies? [374.80KB]
“Literature and Energy Futures.” PMLA 126.2 (2011): 32-36. PMLA Energy [231.31KB]
“ Oil and the Left: An Interview with Imre Szeman." Platypus 29 (2010).
“The Cultural Politics of Oil: On Lessons of Darkness and Black Sea Files.” Polygraph 22 (2010): 3-15. Cultural Politics of Oil [538.35KB]
The Left and Marxism in Eastern Europe: An Interview with Gáspár Miklós Tamás." Mediations 24.2 (2009): 12-35. Romanian Translation . Excerpt in Monthly Review .
“ Marxist Literary Criticism, Now and Then." Mediations 24.2 (2009): 36-47.
“The Big Picture: On the Politics of Contemporary Photography” (co-written with Maria Whiteman). Third Text 23.5 (2009): 551-556. The Big Picture [119.25KB]
“Administered Lives: Scholarly Research, Accountability and the ‘Public’.” English Studies in Canada 32.4 (2006): 9-12 (appeared 2008).
“The Politics of Documentary Today: A Roundtable Discussion.” Politics and Culture 9.2 (2008).  
“Poetics and the Politics of Globalization.” Studies in Canadian Literature 32.2 (2007): 148-161.
“Critical Peripateticism.” Prefix Photo 16 (2007): 14-19. 
“‘Do No Evil’: Google and Evil as a Political Category.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 18 (2007): 131-139. Do No Evil: Google [942.76KB]
“System Failure: Oil, Futurity and the Anticipation of Disaster.” South Atlantic Quarterly 106.4 (2007): 805-823.  System Failure [112.72KB]  
“Introduction: Cultural Studies in Canada Today” (co-written with Richard Cavell). Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies 29.2/3 (2007): 139-158. New Cultural Spaces [146.71KB]
“What is the Multitude?” Interview with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (with Nicholas Brown), Cultural Studies 19.3 (2005): 372-387. What is the Multitude? [102.94KB] - What is the Multitude? (Portuguese trans.) [419.22KB]
“Culture and Globalization, or, The Humanities in Ruins.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3.2 (2003): 91-115. Humanities in Ruins [149.48KB]
“The Global Coliseum: On Empire.” Interview with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (with Nicholas Brown), Cultural Studies 16.2 (2002): 177-92. Global Coliseum [140.55KB]
“Literature on the Periphery of Capitalism.” Ilha do Desterro (Brazil) 40 (Jan/Jun 2001): 25-42.  
“Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/The Fiction of Globalization” (with Susie O’Brien). South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 601-24. Globalization of Fiction [314.56KB]
“Who’s Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 801-25. National Allegory [139.73KB]
“Plundering the Empire: Globalization, Cultural Studies and Utopia.” Rethinking Marxism 13.3/4 (2001): 173-189.  Plundering the Empire [150.41KB]
“The Rhetoric of Culture: Some Notes on Magazines, Canadian Culture and Globalization.” Journal of Canadian Studies 35.3 (2000): 212-230. Rhetoric of Culture [1.04MB]
“Belated or Isochronic?: Canadian Writing, Time and Globalization.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 145-153. Belated or Isochronic? [433.84KB]
“Introduction: A Manifesto for Materialism.” Essays on Canadian Writing 68 (Summer 1999): 1-18. Manifesto for Materialism [794.57KB]
“The Persistence of the Nation: Interdisciplinarity and Canadian Literary Criticism.” Essays on Canadian Writing 65 (Fall 1998): 16-37. Persistence of the Nation [1,022.05KB]