A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

• Main Author: Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully, Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Newark Wiley 2017; John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated; Wiley-Blackwell
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Critical theory; Criticism; Culture; LITERARY CRITICISM

This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. * Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives an...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Lineages -- Chapter 1 Frankfurt - New York - San Diego 1924-1968 -- or, Critical Theory -- Frankfurt 1924-1935, The Welter of Method -- New York 1935-1953, Life Subsumed -- San Diego 1965-, Quandary of the Riot -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Vienna 1899 - Paris 1981 -- or, Psychoanalysis -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Paris 1955-1968 -- or, Structuralism -- Foundations -- Structure -- Theoretical Anti-Humanism -- The Scientific Turn -- History as Structure without a Subject -- The Split Subject -- High Structuralism -- The Revenge of History -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Birmingham - Urbana‐Champaign 1964-1990 -- or, Cultural Studies -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Baltimore - New Haven 1966-1983 -- or, Deconstruction -- Deconstruction, Without Limit… (Introduction) -- DerridAmerica (Phase I) -- "Boa-Deconstructors" (Phase II) -- Deconstruction, Engaged (Phase III) -- Momentous Inconclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 Paris - Boston - Berkeley - the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949-1990 -- or, Gender and Sexuality -- On the Times of Gender and Sexuality -- 1979/1949/1989: Situating Consciousness -- 1980/1995-1997/2006/2012: Presses, Anthologies, Counter-Public Spheres -- 1976/1961/1990/1983: Other Foucaults -- Incendiary Legacies -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort - Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail - Pretoria/Robben Island 1947-1994 -- or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism -- Colonialism -- Race -- Decolonization -- Postcolonialism -- References -- Chapter 8 Petrograd/Leningrad - Havana - Beijing 1917-1991 -- or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice -- References -- Chapter 9 Chile - Seattle - Cairo 1973-2017? -- or, Globalization and Neoliberalism -- Chile and New York City 1973-1975
• Chiapas and Seattle 1994-1999 -- Cairo and Greece 2008-Present -- Addendum -- Notes -- References -- Part II Problematics -- Section A: Living and Laboring -- Chapter 10 Subjectivity -- Subjectivity and Power: Marxist Lineages -- From the Subject of Production to the Production of the Subject -- Neoliberal Subjectivity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Diaspora and Migration -- Towards an Analytics of Diasporic Culture -- Jalleh's Diasporic Culture -- Diasporic Culture as a Culture of Capitalist Modernity -- The Diasporic Condition -- References -- Chapter 12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities -- The Critique of Community -- Alternative Terms and Alternative Formulations: Queer World‐Building -- The Supplementarity of Affective Collectivity with Capitalism? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Feminism -- Feminist Theory and the Value of Materialism -- Materialism and Feminist Praxis -- Body: The Labor of Social Reproduction -- Mind: Feminist Knowledge -- Heart: The Value of Affect and Collective Action -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 Gender and Queer Theory -- Public Feelings: Affective Responses to Precarity -- Rethinking Terms: Queer of Color Analyses and Precarity -- After Sexuality? -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies -- Abundance from Scarcity -- Derivative Logics -- Rationalization, Solidarity, Socialization -- Decolonizing Divisions -- Reclaiming the Wealth of Society -- References -- Chapter 16 Work and Precarity -- Hegel -- Marx -- Spinoza -- Conclusion -- References -- Note -- References -- Section B: Being and Knowing -- References -- Chapter 17 Religion and Secularism -- Narratives of Secularization -- Constructing Religion -- Contemporary Secularism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18 Affect -- Romanticism/Realism -- Speculation/Materialism -- Notes -- References
• Chapter 19 Indigenous Epistemes -- Indigenous Epistemes -- Epistemic Ignorance -- Knowing the Other -- Responsibility for Doing Homework -- "Learning from Below" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 The Everyday, Taste, Class -- Taste: Classifying the Classifiers -- Attachment, Deliberation, and Dreams -- Coda -- References -- Chapter 21 Disability Studies -- Getting Familiar with Disability Studies: Introducing the Social Model -- Defamiliarizing Disability: Complicating the Social Model -- Are We Familiar Yet? -- Note -- References -- Chapter 22 Unsound -- "A True Sound Which Is Not in Reality," or Duverney's Dilemma -- "Sounds That We Have Never Heard Before We Remember Them," or Benjamin's Déjà Entendu -- "No-Point-of-Audition," or McLuhan's Acoustic Space -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 23 Screen Life -- What to Do -- Futurity -- Prosumer and Cognitarian -- Creative Industries -- Waste -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 24 Digital and New Media -- Digital Culture: From Cyberspace to Social Media -- Effects on Knowledge and Theory -- New Media as Leak -- Coda: Habitual New Media -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 Science and Technology -- Natural History and its Discontents -- Science Fictional Environments -- The State of the Species -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging -- References -- Chapter 26 Circulation -- The Circulatory Economy -- Circulation and the City -- Circulation in the Domain of Discourse -- Conclusion: Circulation Forever? -- References -- Chapter 27 Cultural Production -- References -- Chapter 28 Decolonization -- Objects -- Subjects -- Coda: Decolonizing Theory -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 29 Race and Ethnicity -- Ethnicity's Origins -- The Many-Headed Hydra of Race -- Biological Caesuras -- References
• Chapter 30 Humanism -- Back to the 1840s: Political Humanism in Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 31 Nature -- Empty/Full -- Time/Space -- Beginning/End -- References -- Chapter 32 Scale -- An Epoch of Space: From the Urban Question to the Modern World-System -- Henri Lefebvre and the Dialectic of Scale -- Scale and the Sublime -- Scale without Humans -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 33 Narrative -- Narratological Approaches to Narrative -- Narrative, Culture, Identity -- References -- Index -- EULA