| New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory Contributor(s): Hall, Gary (Editor), Birchall, Clare (Editor), Badmington, Neil (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0820329606 ISBN-13: 9780820329604 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: A new generation is turning to theory to think through some of the most crucial issues in contemporary culture. "New Cultural Studies" provides for the first time an authoritative and accessible guide to the ideas of this generation, explaining just why theory continues to be central to the past, present, and future of cultural studies. It follows prominent thinkers and theorists, such as Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Kittler, Laclau, Levinas, and Zizek, as they map out theories of anti-capitalism, ethics, the post-humanities, post-Marxism, and new media technologies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 306.071 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.18" W x 9.08" (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores new directions and territories for cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School. It is a generation whose whole education has been shaped by theory, and who frequently turn to it as a means to think through some of the issues and current problems in contemporary culture and cultural studies. In a period when departments which were once hotbeds of "high theory" are returning to more sociological and social science oriented modes of research, and 9/11 and the war in Iraq especially have helped create a sense of "post-theoretical" political urgency which leaves little time for the "elitist," "Eurocentric," "textual" concerns of "Theory," theoretical approaches to the study of culture have, for many of this generation, never seemed so important or so vital. New Cultural Studies explores theory's past, present, and most especially future role in cultural studies. It does so by providing an authoritative and accessible guide, for students and teachers alike, to: the most innovative members of this "new generation"the thinkers and theories currently influencing new work in cultural studies: Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Hardt and Negri, Kittler, Laclau, Levinas, and Zizekthe new territories currently being mapped out across the intersections of cultural studies and cultural theory: anti-capitalism, ethics, the posthumanities, post-Marxism, and the transnational |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, Gary: - GARY HALL is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at Middlesex University. Hall is the author of Culture in Bits. He is also founding coeditor of the e-journal Culture Machine and editor of the Culture Machine book series.Birchall, Clare: - CLARE BIRCHALL is a senior lecturer in sultural studies at Middlesex University. Birchall, who has published widely on cultural theory and cultural studies, is the author of Knowledge Goes Pop. |