Books by Jonathan Elmer

What are we talking about when we talk about sovereignty? Is it about formal legitimacy or practical authority? This title argues that the logic of sovereignty that emerged in early modern Europe and that limits our thinking today must be understood as a fundamentally racialized logic, first visible in the New World.

Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology.