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Cosmo-Theory

Cosmo-Theory The South Atlantic Quarterly :, Summer . Copyright ©  by Duke University Press. What 6602 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:3 SUMMER 2001 / sheet 62 of 257 Timothy Brennan to. Cosmopolitanism is local while denying its local character. This denial is an intrinsic feature of cosmopolitanism and inherent to its appeal. Our confusion over these preliminary observations derives from a fact about cosmopolitanism that seems, at first, to be quite extraneous to it. In general, the term has been disorienting within cultural theory because of the theorist’s unwillingness to analyze the marketplace in a sustained or careful way. My apparently unjustified leap into new territory might be defended by recalling the opening question of the chapter ‘‘The Fair, the Pig, and Authorship’’ from Peter Stallybrass and Allon White’s widely read book, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. They ask, ‘‘How does one ‘think’ a marketplace?’’ Their provisional answer, which I take to be the type of point I make in this essay, is that ‘‘the commonplace is what is most radically unthinkable’’: At once a bounded enclosure and site of open commerce, it is both the imagined centre of an urban community and its structural interconnection with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

Cosmo-Theory

Brennan, Timothy
South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 100 (3) – Jul 1, 2001
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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10.1215/00382876-100-3-659
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The South Atlantic Quarterly :, Summer . Copyright ©  by Duke University Press. What 6602 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:3 SUMMER 2001 / sheet 62 of 257 Timothy Brennan to. Cosmopolitanism is local while denying its local character. This denial is an intrinsic feature of cosmopolitanism and inherent to its appeal. Our confusion over these preliminary observations derives from a fact about cosmopolitanism that seems, at first, to be quite extraneous to it. In general, the term has been disorienting within cultural theory because of the theorist’s unwillingness to analyze the marketplace in a sustained or careful way. My apparently unjustified leap into new territory might be defended by recalling the opening question of the chapter ‘‘The Fair, the Pig, and Authorship’’ from Peter Stallybrass and Allon White’s widely read book, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. They ask, ‘‘How does one ‘think’ a marketplace?’’ Their provisional answer, which I take to be the type of point I make in this essay, is that ‘‘the commonplace is what is most radically unthinkable’’: At once a bounded enclosure and site of open commerce, it is both the imagined centre of an urban community and its structural interconnection with

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Published: Jul 1, 2001

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