In the Air by Anthony Caleshu

Author:Anthony Caleshu [Caleshu, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780819577481
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2017-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

In Conclusion

In these proceedings, I have offered a series of historical coordinates by which we might trace The Outernationale’s complex engagement with not only modernism, but the revolutionary enthusiasms of the modernist moment. Not content to reprise Gizzi as a mournful lyricist whose occasional, panging delight in particulars lubricates the time from now until the apocalypse, we instead found a poetics that unflinchingly forged no way out of the current conjuncture. In the place of escape, we discovered a post-antipodal occupation of unbending historical fact (the splitting off of democracy from capitalism; the alienation from revolutionary movements that the end of the Cold War managed to imprint on certain generational imaginations) and recalcitrant contradictions (the temporality of the fantasmic exchange cycle). In our opening, we wondered about the title The Outernationale, noting its negation of interiority and its curiously affiliational relationship to the song of solidarity and universal emancipation. If the volume has done anything in service of the latter, it is that it dwells in forms that offer no inauthentic resolution. Gizzi’s Outernationale is a work of resolute unfreedom; capital accumulation and social and political authoritarianism underwrite a lyric finally unindexed by emancipation.

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