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Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies : Theory, Politics and

Intervention
Paul Bowman
Published in print: 2007 Published Online: Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
ISBN: 9780748617623 eISBN: 9780748652785 edinburgh/9780748617623.001.0001
Item type: book
This book is an exploration of the ethical and political significance

of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory, arguing that
although Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism tend to present themselves
as distinct entities, they actually share a project: that of taking on
the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as having a developed
theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be
both practical and political. The author examines these intertwined,
overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way
of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of intervention:
what is the intervention of Post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into
the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes?
Through considerations of key aspects of Cultural Studies and cultural
theory, the book argues that the very thing which is fundamental to
both of these politicised approaches the quest to establish a theory of
intervention and to relate this to a practice actually remains frustrated
and unrealised as a direct result of the way this has been approached.
Because of this stalemate, it proposes a new theory of pragmatic
intervention one that is derived from Derridean deconstruction, post-
Marxism and Cultural Studies, and which will be of importance and value
for politicised academics and intellectuals working in all areas of political
and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism

Paul Bowman
in Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention

March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
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Item type: chapter
Given Stuart Halls influential status in cultural studies, this chapter

clarifies Halls important and influential conception of cultural studies
purpose and methods of operation. It clarifies that the foundations of his
views relate fundamentally both to deconstruction and, crucially, to the
deconstructive post-Marxist political theory of Laclau and Mouffe (1985).
The chapter points out that Laclau and Mouffes theory that culture and
politics are contingent and hegemonic has become strongly influential
within cultural studies, and also considers the Derridean deconstructive
complication or complexification of the idea of the political. Derrida
extends the consideration and conception of the political in such a way
as to make it inextricable from the institutional and ultimately even the
textual. In light of this contribution, the problem of post-Marxism and
cultural studies that this discussion engages relates to the question of
academico-political responsibilities.
Post-Marxist Cultural Studies Theory, Politics and Intervention

Paul Bowman
in Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention

March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
Item type: chapter
This chapter reiterates what is at stake by clarifying that the question of

the paradigm or of the theoretical orientation is something which is far
from being of merely theoretical or merely academic consequence. It
argues that post-Marxist political theory in particular must now attend
to the challenge and criticisms laid down by deconstruction and cultural
studies if it is not, paradoxically, to disengage from the possibility of
intervening politically in anything like the way that was its own initial
purpose. The chapter takes issue with the agenda proposed by the
most recent work of Laclau, as well as with the arguably rudderless
drift of cultural studies away from engaging with political responsibility,
proposing a rearticulation with the shared and constitutive problematic of
both and a reorientation with the demands of any project of responsible
intervention.
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Subculture, Club Cultures and Post-Subcultures: Music/Social
Interactions?
Dan Laughey
in Music and Youth Culture

March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
Item type: chapter
This chapter reviews the literature on subcultures, club cultures and

post-subcultures from an interactionist perspective. It argues that the
prevalent deployment of semiotics, structuralism and postmodernism
in understanding post-Second World War youth cultures has resulted
in a dearth of empirically informed, sociologically detailed accounts
of young people's localised interactions with familiar others. Instead
of focusing on young people's relations to the people and places that
provide meaningful everyday sources of reference and influence, youth
cultural studies particularly those derivative of the European tradition
of critical and cultural theory have tended to locate respondents in
collective, intra-generational units that share homologous commitments
to spectacular deviances or symbolic resistances. In turn, much previous
research into the role of music in youth cultures has worked within a
structural Marxist framework centred on the effects of and resistances to
the commercial function inherent in mass music texts that young people
have consumed throughout the twentieth century to the present day.
Texts : Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches

Peter Childs
September 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
Item type: book
Texts takes a wide range of visual, virtual, performative and written

texts as a means of exploring both the the literary and the textual
in contemporary culture. Each chapter includes an introduction to the
text and aspects of its critical reception as well as an extended analysis
using one of sixteen important critical/theoretical approaches from
established critical angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and
deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and
ethical criticism. Each chapter also discusses the features of the type
of text under analysis and indicates alternative ways in which the text
might be read by drawing on other critical approaches. Illustrating the
variety of critical and theoretical tools that can be used for analysis,
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Texts examines a broad spectrum of contemporary culture from short
stories, autobiographies and lyrics, through The Matrix, Harry Potter,
and Big Brother, to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. An
excellent guide to ways of reading the contemporary world, this is
essential reading for anyone who ever wanted to know how to analyse a
text, whether it be a poster or a building complex, a political speech or a
photograph, an event like the Millennium or a website like Amazon.
Deleuze and Memorial Culture : Desire, Singular Memory and

the Politics of Trauma
Adrian Parr
March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
Item type: book
This book presents a detailed study of contemporary forms of public

remembrance. It considers the different character traumatic memory
takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that
contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory
to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of
Gilles Deleuze, the book outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural
studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public
remembrance. This approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on media
criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, urbanism, continental
philosophy and political economy. A number of case studies are
examined including the holocaust, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington DC, 9/11, the Amish shootings in Pennsylvania USA, the
documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib
prison, as well as the consumption and reification of trauma. The book
offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a
definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can
foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory : From Kant to Deleuze

Claire Colebrook
Item type: book
This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist

theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of
Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key questions
and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental
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critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of
cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to
ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical
background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment;
and offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-
metaphysical or post-human culture.
Deleuze's Hume : Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish

Enlightenment
Jeffrey A. Bell
March 2012 DOI: 10.3366/
Item type: book
This book offers an extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles

Deleuze and David Hume. The book argues that Deleuze's early work
on Hume was instrumental to Deleuze's formulation of the problems
and concepts that would remain a focus of his entire corpus. Reading
Deleuze's work in light of Hume's influence, along with a comparison
of Deleuze's work with William James, Henri Bergson and others set
the stage for a vigorous defence of his philosophy against a number of
recent criticisms and extend the field of Deleuze studies by showing how
Deleuze's thought can clarify and contribute to the work being done in
political theory, cultural studies, and history, particularly the history of
the Scottish Enlightenment. By engaging Deleuze's thought with the
work of Hume, this book clarifies and supports the work of Deleuze and
exemplifies the continuing relevance of Hume's thought to a number of
contemporary debates.
The Internet, Power and Transgression

Chris Atton
in An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity

Item type: chapter
At the heart of the cultural studies approach to media research is

the notion of culture as a key to understanding specific features of a
particular historical situation. This chapter explores alternative media
and how we might conceptualise and identify appropriate methodologies
for studying the Internet. It discusses the banality of the Internet and
the everyday practices that construct it and its relations to the wider
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world. It examines power relations and alternative media, the economic
and cultural dimensions of globalisation, and the legal constraints on
communication and freedom of expression. The chapter closes with
a discussion of the nature and purpose of the social movements that
have arisen to challenge these forces as they are played out on the
Internet, and introduces topics such as electronic civil disobedience,
and communitarian and libertarian approaches to electronic intellectual
property.
Capitalism, technology, institutions and the study of

communications and media policy
Paula Chakravartty and Katharine Sarikakis
in Media Policy and Globalization

Item type: chapter
This chapter situates the theoretical framing of the book in literature

on media policy, political economy and cultural studies. The chapter
positions policy analysis within the study of political institutions as well
as the critical approach to media as economic actors. It discusses the
context of communication policy within the triangle of market, changing
notions and practices of the state towards media and the individual, and
the communication technologies. To that, it adds a further layer, the
symbolic politics and myth production around media and communication
technologies, highlighting the historical specificity of communications
policy studies. It also charts out the logic and organization of the
remainder of the book.
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University Press Scholarship Online

You are looking at 1-10 of 11 items for: keywords : cultural studies

Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies : Theory, Politics and

This book is an exploration of the ethical and political significance

Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism

in Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention

Given Stuart Halls influential status in cultural studies, this chapter

Post-Marxist Cultural Studies Theory, Politics and Intervention

in Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention

This chapter reiterates what is at stake by clarifying that the question of

in Music and Youth Culture

This chapter reviews the literature on subcultures, club cultures and

Texts : Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches

Texts takes a wide range of visual, virtual, performative and written

Deleuze and Memorial Culture : Desire, Singular Memory and

This book presents a detailed study of contemporary forms of public

Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory : From Kant to Deleuze

This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist

Deleuze's Hume : Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish

This book offers an extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles

The Internet, Power and Transgression

in An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity

At the heart of the cultural studies approach to media research is

Capitalism, technology, institutions and the study of

in Media Policy and Globalization

This chapter situates the theoretical framing of the book in literature

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