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I argue that we have reached the political limit of what our cultural investment in media recognition and representation might deliver with respect to social and cultural justice. This limit is expressed by the alignment of several interlocking histories including new technological capacities for re...

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Published inAmerican quarterly Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 771 - 798
Main Author Gray, Herman
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published College Park Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2013
Subjects
Alliance
Alliances
Classroom communication
Colonialism
Cultural Pluralism
Ethnic Identity
Ethnicity
Freedom
Gender
Internet
Markets
Modernism
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Politics
Race
Racial Differences
Recognition
Representation
Sex differences
Sexuality
Social networks
Society
Subjectivity
Twentieth Century
Values
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Summary:I argue that we have reached the political limit of what our cultural investment in media recognition and representation might deliver with respect to social and cultural justice. This limit is expressed by the alignment of several interlocking histories including new technological capacities for representation, the intensification and proliferation of difference, the spread of market logic to all aspects of social life, and the reinvention of government. Culturally, in this conjuncture, struggles for media representation, visibility, and recognition no longer index collective histories and political struggles but the triumph of the market where difference affirms the celebration of diversity as lifestyle politics, market choice, and the promise of individual freedom to maximize market options.
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ISSN:0003-0678
1080-6490
1080-6490
DOI:10.1353/aq.2013.0058