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Joseph Natoli
File:Joseph P. Natoli.jpg
Born (1943-08-24) August 24, 1943 (age 81)
Brooklyn, New York
OccupationWriter, Professor, Librarian
Literary movementBlakean, Film Criticism, Postmodernism, Politics.
Website
http://www.josephnatoli.com/

Joseph Phillip Natoli (born August 24, 1943) is an American writer, intellectual, painter, librarian, and university professor. He has written on a broad range of topics, including: William Blake, phenomenological psychology, literary theory, popular culture, most especially film, media, cyberspace, education, economics, and politics. His particular imaginative approach to the essay has been called gonzo-criticism; it is an intermingling of journalism, investigation, memoir, film criticism, political rant, philosophical reflection, satire, and dark comedy.[1][2] He has said, "I don't discipline my thinking within the walls of disciplines."[3] In the 1990s and early 2000s Natoli produced an influential social history of the United States, using popular cinema as a window onto what he calls the "cultural imaginary".[4][5] He edited the SUNY Press series in Postmodern Culture from 1991 until 2009.[6] His books, such as Postmodernism: The Key Figures, co-edited with Hans Bertens, fostered trans-Atlantic dialog about the works of twentieth-century French philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard.[7] A satirical work of fiction, Travels of a New Gulliver, 2011 followed the 2008 U.S. electoral campaign as well as various eruptions of the "post-truth" world. He taught at the university level for over 40 years, and is a contributing member of the Truthout Public Intellectual Project, founded by Henry Giroux.[8] His most recent book Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey was published by SUNY Press in 2017, and is a retrospective of his writing up to the Age of Trump.[9][10][11]

Life

Natoli was born into an Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, New York. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from a tuition-free Brooklyn College, and in 1973 a PhD in English, with a dissertation on William Blake and Carl Jung, and an MLS, both from the State University of New York at Albany.[12] He helped form the first college faculty union in New England in 1974, subsequently retreating to a subsistence farming life in Oxley Hollow outside Athens, West Virginia, and then returning to the city to resume teaching, writing, and library work.[13] He taught at the Center for Integrated Studies in Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University from 1988 until 2010; this included his radical pedagogical enterprise 'Is This A Postmodern World?' (1995 - 2010), which was hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, University of Utrecht, Leiden University, Katholieke University, University of Vercelli, and the University of Zaragoza.[14] He has written and edited over 40 books, and since 2010 has published extensively in online journals.[15]

File:YellowBarqueCoverbyNatoli.jpg
Cover of Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries featuring "Yellow Barque," by Natoli, oil on canvas, 15" x 18", 2014

Publications[16][17]

Books

  • Twentieth Century Blake Criticism; Garland, Routledge, (1982, 2017).
  • Psychocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography; Greenwood Press, (1984).
  • Psychological Perspectives on Literature: Freudian Dissidents and Non-Freudians: a Casebook; editor, Archon, (1984).
  • Tracing Literary Theory; University of Illinois Press, (1987).
  • Literary Theory's Future(s); editor, University of Illinois Press, (1989).
  • Mots d'ordre; SUNY, (1992).
  • A Postmodern Reader; ed. with Linda Hutcheon, SUNY, (1993). Trans. into Chinese.
  • A Primer To Postmodernity; Blackwell, (1997). Trans. into Chinese and Turkish
  • Postmodernism: The Key Figures; ed. with Hans Bertens, Blackwell, (2002). Trans. into Japanese and Czech
  • Occupying Here & Now; Nordgaard Press (2012).
  • Travels Of A New Gulliver; (2013).
  • Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey; SUNY, (2017).

Film and American Culture Series

  • Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture 1990–1992; SUNY, (1994).
  • Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993–1995; SUNY, (1998).
  • Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996–1998; SUNY, (2001).
  • Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999–2000; SUNY, (2003).
  • This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America; SUNY, (2007).

In Print Journals And Collections

  • Natoli, "Fiction as Pathography," Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Spring; (1982).
  • Natoi, "Archetypal and Psychological Criticism", Critical Survey Of Poetry, Topical Essays, 4th ed. Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman. Salem Press; (1982).
  • Natoli, "William Blake", Critical Survey Of Poetry: British, Irish and Commonwealth Poets, 4th ed. Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman. Salem Press; (1982).[18]
  • Natoli, "Dimensions of Consciousness in Hamlet," Mosaic, 19:1 (1986), 91-8.
  • Natoli, "Textual studies and the selection of editions," English and American literature : sources and strategies for collection development, William McPheron, general editor, (1987)
  • Natoli, Meditating on a Postmodern Strategy of Reading, The Yearbook of English Studies; (1996).
  • Natoli, That Rug Really Tied the Room Together, Postmodern Journeys, (2001); reprinted in Lebowski 101:Limber-Minded Investigations into the Greatest Story Ever Blathered, ed. Oliver Benjamin, Abide University Press, (2013).[19][20]
  • Natoli, The Twittering of Twilight, Journal of Popular Culture, 2010.

Online Publications

Further reading – works on Natoli

References

  1. ^ "'Pr. Joesph Natoli: We Need To Kill The Human'". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  2. ^ Natoli, Joesph (2017). Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey. SUNY. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4384-6351-3.
  3. ^ "'Pr. Joesph Natoli: We Need To Kill The Human'". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  4. ^ "From Gale CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ONLINE".
  5. ^ Natoli, Joesph (2017). Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey. SUNY. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4384-6351-3.
  6. ^ "SUNY Press series in Postmodern Culture Publications".
  7. ^ "From Gale CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ONLINE".
  8. ^ "Truthout Public Intellectual Project".
  9. ^ "From Gale CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ONLINE".
  10. ^ Natoli, Joesph (2017). Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey. SUNY. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4384-6351-3.
  11. ^ "SUNY Press Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries".
  12. ^ "'Pr. Joesph Natoli: We Need To Kill The Human'". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  13. ^ "Conversation with Scholars of American Popular Culture: Joseph Natoli". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  14. ^ "Tales from Abroad Summer 2005".
  15. ^ "josephnatoli.com Publications".
  16. ^ "SUNY Press series in Postmodern Culture Publications".
  17. ^ "MSU Library Author Joseph Natoli".
  18. ^ "Critical Survey of Poetry (14-Vol Set)".
  19. ^ Oliver Benjamin, ed. (2013). Lebowski 101:Limber-Minded Investigations into the Greatest Story Ever Blathered. Abide University Press.
  20. ^ Natoli, Joesph (2017). Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind's Odyssey. SUNY Press.
  21. ^ "Bad Subjects Production Team".

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