About the Author

Mitchum Huehls

E-Mail: huehls@humnet.ucla.edu

Website: https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/huehls-mitchum/

Mitchum Huehls is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age (Oxford 2016) and Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Ohio State 2009). He is co-editor of Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (Johns Hopkins 2017).

Contributions by Author: Mitchum Huehls

Issue 7
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critique
postcritique
Foucault
governmentality
Paul Beatty

A World Without Norms

Historicizing Critique and Postcritique

In May 2019, I attended and spoke at a conference — “Reading in the Age of Trump: The Politics and Possibility of Literary Studies Now” — hosted by Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. As the organizers explain, the conference aimed to “historicize the past two decades in literary criticism in order to examine its present politics and future possibility.” [1] Over the course of three days, the conference participants identified many of the twenty-first century’s […]