Ideology and Inscription - ''Cultural Studies'' After Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin

Klappentext A critique of cultural studies that invokes Bakhtin! Benjamin! and de Man. Zusammenfassung In Ideology and Inscription Tom Cohen questions the way history is currently invoked in cultural studies and argues for a new politics of memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Webwork, or 'That spot is bewitched'; Part I. Ciphers - Or Counter-Genealogies for a Critical 'Present': 1. Reflections on post 'post-mortem de Man'; 2. The ideology of dialogue: the de Man/Bakhtin connection; 3. Mnemotechnics: time of the seance, or the Mimetic blind of 'cultural studies'; Part II. Expropriating 'Cinema' - Or, Hitchcock's Mimetic War: 4. Beyond 'the Gaze': Hitchcock, Zizek, and the ideological sublime; 5. Sabotaging the ocularist state; Part III. Tourings - Or, the Monadic Switchboard: 6. Echotourism: Nietzschean Cyborgs, Anthropophagy, and the rhetoric of science in cultural studies; 7. Altered states: stoned in Marseilles, or the addiction to reference; 8. Contretemps: notes, on contemporary 'travel'.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Cohen
• Assisted by: Anthony Cascardi (Editor), Richard Macksey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780521599672
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59967-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies