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Contemporary Capitalism and Temporal Control in Sarah Sharma’s In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics

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Post date September 18, 2020
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by Duy Lap Nguyen
“The same extension occurs in Sharma’s chronography of flexible capitalism. In her critique of Marx’s quantitative conception of temporal control, the ontology of value determined by labor is never called into question.”

Tags Book Review, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Duke University Press, Duy Lap Nguyen, Duy Nguyen, Houston, Houston Review of Books, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics, Marx, Sarah Sharma, The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam, Time, University of Houston