Böcker av Benjamin Lee

A critical synthesis of the work of Lauren Berlant, Moishe Postone, and Michael Silverstein. The Treadmill Affect draws upon the work of three University of Chicago professors, each a former program director at the Center for Transcultural Studies: literary and cultural critic Lauren Berlant, historian and social theorist Moishe Postone, and linguist Michael Silverstein. Through this intellectual synthesis, Benjamin Lee demonstrates the critical possibilities of uniting a revived linguistic turn with Marxist accounts of affect and subjectivity, adding new dimensions to the "treadmill" affective structure of cruel optimism.

Hand-painted affirmation book that is written by famed donut lover. A delicious story about a plain donut that finds out that he is valued and loved. He feels depressed that his friends are maple covered, sprinkled, dipped in chocolate, or stuffed with jelly. Why would anyone choose him? He realizes that he's got great dough inside. It doesn't matter if he is plain, weird, black, white, skinny or fat. Someone loves him and that's all that matters. This affirmation book can help someone love and accept themselves by realizing they are good inside. Read Benjamin's 2nd book, Sprinkled with Kindness, available on Amazon.

How do ordinary people identify themselves as part of a group? By what means do they express a largely unspoken understanding of themselves in society? This issue examines emergent forms of solidarity and collective identity in a global context. It suggests a way of synthesizing economic, political, and cultural approaches to social life.

Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration

Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.