Joseph Natoli
| Joseph Natoli | |
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August 24, 1943 Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor, Librarian |
| Literary movement | Blakean, Film Criticism, Postmodernism, Politics. |
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| 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. He has said, "I don't discipline my thinking within the walls of disciplines." 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". He edited the SUNY Press series in Postmodern Culture from 1991 until 2009. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. He has written and edited over 40 books, and since 2010 has published extensively in online journals.
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