Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of cultural critique at the present moment. Beckman deftly limns out the contours of our contemporary “control society,” and then zeroes in on the current trend for producing cultural productions that take themselves to be allegories of this condition (everything from DeLillo’s fiction to The Hunger Games). This is important work, furthering our ongoing, collective diagnosis of the present

• Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. Culture, Control, Critique / 2. Formalism, Allegory, Totality / 3. Space, Allegory, Control / 4. Time, Allegory, Control / 5. Vision, Allegory, Control / Conclusion / Index

Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of cultural critique at the present moment. Beckman deftly limns out the contours of our contemporary “control society,” and then zeroes in on the current trend for producing cultural productions that take themselves to be allegories of this condition (everything from DeLillo’s fiction to The Hunger Games). This is important work, furthering our ongoing, collective diagnosis of the present

• Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. Culture, Control, Critique / 2. Formalism, Allegory, Totality / 3. Space, Allegory, Control / 4. Time, Allegory, Control / 5. Vision, Allegory, Control / Conclusion / Index

Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of cultural critique at the present moment. Beckman deftly limns out the contours of our contemporary “control society,” and then zeroes in on the current trend for producing cultural productions that take themselves to be allegories of this condition (everything from DeLillo’s fiction to The Hunger Games). This is important work, furthering our ongoing, collective diagnosis of the present

• Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. Culture, Control, Critique / 2. Formalism, Allegory, Totality / 3. Space, Allegory, Control / 4. Time, Allegory, Control / 5. Vision, Allegory, Control / Conclusion / Index