Cultural Theory

Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory  Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as   Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” (1986), Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control” (1992), and Fredric Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study —the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author A large annotated   bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion Features a useful glossary of critical terms

Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part 1 Reforming Culture 5 Introduction 7 1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12 2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18 3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27 4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40 5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53 6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60 7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72 8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81 Additional Readings 94 Part 2 Power 99 Introduction 101 9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106 10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109 11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114 12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124 13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134 14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139 15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143 Additional Readings 150 Part 3 Ideology 155 Introduction 157 16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161 17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172 18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188 19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204 20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223 21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228 Additional Readings 245 Part 4 Space and Scale 249 Introduction 251 22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255 23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264 24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274 25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282 26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space/Time” (1992) 296 27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307 28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318 Additional Readings 332 Part 5 Temporality 335 Introduction 337 29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341 30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353 31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357 32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364 33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376 34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391 35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401 Additional Readings 412 Part 6 Subjectivity 415 Introduction 417 36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422 37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432 38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449 39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454 40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (1990) 472 41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492 42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504 Additional Readings 528 Glossary of Terms 531 Sources 538 Index 541