But of course the world of The Theory of the Novel is characterized by the opposite state of affairs—by the ‘refusal of the immanence of meaning to enter into empirical life’.
Towards what horizon the mega-junk of the PRC is moving resists calculation, at least of any current astrolabe
quoting his Two Revolutions essay in NLR 2010, which this essay is a response to
Was it merely due to the increasing sway of neoliberal ideology in the PRC?
What of the state-owned enterprises themselves? [...] Theoretically they belonged to the abstract collective of all citizens of the People’s Republic, and the state only ran them on behalf of the people. Nowadays they are known simply as firms owned by the state. Any link to the people, however nom…
Faced with continuous difficulties in urban and industrial reform after 1989, the country’s official media spent virtually a whole decade denouncing the ‘iron rice bowl’—secure employment and a steady wage—of workers in state-owned enterprises as an insurmountable obstacle to improvements in produc…
