Cultural Theory After the Contemporary

Zusatztext " Cultural Theory After the Contemporary is among the most important works in materialist cultural theory. Tumino offers a singular and incisive Marxist analysis of daily life that lays bare the complicity of the dominant theories with the culture of capitalism. Commanding in its scope and gravity - an indispensable work." - Steven Wexler! California State University! Northridge Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN TUMINO Adjunct Professor in English at the City University of New York-Kingsborough, USA. His articles have appeared in such journals as Textual Practice and Nature, Society, and Thought. Klappentext Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency!" namely the power of people to shape social life. Here! Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis. Zusammenfassung Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency!" namely the power of people to shape social life. Here! Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Culture and its Outside Materiality and the Praxis of the Outside Labor and the Poetics of Capital Cultural Theory Now

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• Authors: S Tumino, S. Tumino, Stephen Tumino
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349291601
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29160-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Literature, Sociology, Society, Cultural Studies, Society & social sciences, Cultural Theory, Social Sciences, Social Sciences, general, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social research & statistics, Literary theory, Literature, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Sociological Methods, Literature—Philosophy, capital;Cultural Studies;Cultural Theory;culture;Nation