Policante explores the relationship between capitalist crisis and monstrosity, attending to the terrain of Marx’s own gothic literary imagination, a field where the line between conceptuality and rhetoric grows suggestively, provocatively thin. There is attention here to both the contemporary and to the classic, to the political and the poetic, and indeed to the relationship between these categories.
Policante’s piece has its uncanny prescience as well. As this introduction was being prepared for publication, a radical Halloween march occurred at Occupy Boston, one in which the participants – largely college students – have dressed up like “corporate zombies” and “vampire bankers” reviving this radical strain in Marx’s own conceptuality for our own moment. A pile of these “zombies,” signifiying the “death of the American dream,” was featured on the front page of the Boston Metro.
Here is a link to the free web version: http://clogic.eserver.org/2010/2010.html