Vol. 33 No. 2 (2023): Literature & Aesthetics

Articles

• Front Matter

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• Anxious and Precarious: Entanglements of Affect and Labour in Contemporary Culture

  Michiel Rys, Ali Shobeiri

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• The Politics and Poetics of the Women’s Millennial Workplace Novel: The Trope of Burnout in Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job (2015) and Ling Ma’s Severance (2018)

  Sarah De Mul

  6-18

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• The Ghosts of Capitalism in Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht (2004) and Isaac Rosa’s La habitación oscura (2013)

  Daniel López Fernández

  19-32

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• Nostalgic and Precarious: The Affective Power of Objects in Olga Ravn’s The Employees (2018)

  Marta Lopes Santos

  33-46

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• Gesturality: An Ethico-Aesthetic of Anxiety in Late Photography

  Ali Shobeiri

  47-59

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• Precarious Lives: The Deepening Pathologies of Neoliberalism in French Cinema (1980 to the Present)

  Temenuga Trifonova

  60-77

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• Posing as Labour: Resisting The Anxious Condition of Post-Fordism in European Film Narratives by Dardenne, Loach, Petzold and Seidl

  Wim Peeters

  78-87

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• Acting, Anxiety and Authenticity: Performing Affective Labour in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal (2022)

  Maria Menzel

  88-101

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• Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen, Fragility: To Touch and Be Touched

  Carole M. Cusack

  102

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• Mark Reid, Looking out from Bashan: The Republic of Og

  Carole M. Cusack

  103

• End Matter

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