Deficits and Desires

Tratner, Michael

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“…5. For theory, see Shell, 1982;Goux, 1984Goux, /1994Vernon, 1984;and Tratner, 2001. Also, see specific studies on the economics of, for example, Austen, Goethe, Poe, James, Trollope, Joyce, Hemingway, and William Carlos Williams.…”

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The Passions of Learning in Tight Circumstances: Toward a Political Economy of the Mind

McDermott

2010

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Economies make their demands, and by necessity, people adjust, learn, and survive. People adjust to tight circumstances with passion and ingenuity. Necessity and its passions are the stuff of reality and generally more than schools or educational research can handle. Mainstream theories of learning have captured economic constraints only statistically and symptomatically (as if being short on money means being short on ingenuity). A focus on the demands of necessity promises a more grounded view of educational possibilities. 1 It can deliver portraits of what people in trouble can do, rather than what they cannot do, and it promises research better tuned to the work of democracy.To illustrate the case, I invoke the power of novels to capture both the press of circumstance and the ingenuity of people facing difficulties. I do so in five sections: one on why novels are attentive to economic necessity; a second on political economies as learning environments; and three sections on the passions of necessity in three novels that stretch the usual borders of research on learning. I am not asking learning researchers to write novels-Deus avertat!-but to reduce the limitations of educational research by modeling the success of fiction at imitating and expanding reality. Careful empirical studies of learning can profit from the attention of novelists to the nuances of necessity. 2

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“…Michael Tratner (2001) has tied Hurston's novel to the economics of John Maynard Keynes (1883Keynes ( -1946. Their Eyes and Keynes's (1936Keynes's ( /1997) General Theory were published only one year apart, and both in the midst of the Depression, but two projects could not be less alike in appearance.…”

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The Passions of Learning in Tight Circumstances: Toward a Political Economy of the Mind

McDermott

2010

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Die hormonelle Ökonomie der Geschlechtskörper. Sexueller Konsum und Konsens im 20. Jahrhundert

Stoff

2023

Sexualtechnische Konsumobjekte Und Metamorphosen Moderner Sexualitäten

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Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

Cooper

2004

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Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles, and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomized the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural, and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterizing techniques, styles, and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein, and Barnes.

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Deficits and Desires

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The Passions of Learning in Tight Circumstances: Toward a Political Economy of the Mind

The Passions of Learning in Tight Circumstances: Toward a Political Economy of the Mind

Die hormonelle Ökonomie der Geschlechtskörper. Sexueller Konsum und Konsens im 20. Jahrhundert

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

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