... of finance on the one hand and the entrepreneurial logic of neoliberal reason on the other, which leads to a radical reordering of capitalism’s promissory legitimacy. To demonstrate the book’s key proposed concept, the chapter turns to Benedict Anderson, whose groundbreaking work Imagined Communities has...

... the aftermath of a bombing likely perpetrated by a Spanish anti-fascist group in 1979. Drawing upon theoretical texts by Roland Barthes and Benedict Anderson, the chapter situates these works within a larger history of Pop artists such as Andy Warhol using their work to reflect on the role of newspapers...

... with those of national belonging. Here we find a determinate reinflection of the novelistic material of the imagined community as it was classically described by Benedict Anderson. Instead of dissolving into homogeneous space, the center continues to haunt the periphery; instead of releasing progressive...

...This chapter examines ideologies of “imperial nationalism” as a second-order matrix for gendered theories of literacy and for gendered educational practices. It discusses evidence strongly supporting Benedict Anderson's argument that capitalism would likely have remained a phenomenon of “petty...

...This chapter examines the place of the Ku Klux Klan in the history of newspaper publishing, and how the press culture of the 1920s helped expand an imagined community (in the formulation of Benedict Anderson) of cultural Klannishness. While newspapers like the New York World and Hearst publications...