MEMORY, HISTORY, AND PLURIPOTENCY: A REALIST VIEW OF LITERARY STUDIES.
Speculative realism has, over the course of its rapid and controversial emergence in the past decade, been frequently criticized from the perspective of historical materialism, for its putative reliance on abstraction and eschewal of a sufficiently rigorous ideological alignment. This paper takes su...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 44 - 60 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2013
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