Open Book Publishers<p>📢New Publication Alert!</p><p>🔵🔴Access 'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' by Stephen Tumino—an exploration of contemporary <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> through the lens of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a>. </p><p>'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> (‘<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a>’ and ‘<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TrumpSpeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSpeak</span></a>’) to high theory (<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Melville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Melville</span></a>'s narratives) and popular culture (<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Beyonc%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beyoncé</span></a>'s ‘<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Formation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Formation</span></a>’ and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SuperBowl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperBowl</span></a> performance, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TwinPeaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwinPeaks</span></a>, metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Derrida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Derrida</span></a>’s idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Occupy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Occupy</span></a>, alter-globalization) and naïve art (<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Darger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darger</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Ryden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ryden</span></a>) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students in several disciplines, including <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/literary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literary</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/culturalstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culturalstudies</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/filmstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filmstudies</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/womensstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensstudies</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/criticalrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticalrace</span></a> studies, history, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ studies and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/environmentalstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalstudies</span></a>. </p><p>🔗<a href="https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0324" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0324</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>