Strategies for Theory: From Marx to MadonnaR. L. Rutsky, Bradley J. Macdonald Interdisciplinary in scope and often provocative in their choice of materials, the essays in this volume present new strategies for theorizing culture and politics. Not content simply to apply theory to political and cultural objects, they instead treat all three as complex, interconnected, and constantly evolving areas of inquiry. Drawn from the innovative work originally published in Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics, the essays collected here explore a variety of topics, ranging from considerations of Marx, Foucault, Jameson, and Rorty to investigations of Madonna, Pasolini, pornography, and vampires. Lively and inventive, Strategies for Theory goes beyond conventional cultural studies and cultural politics in order to suggest new approaches to both. |
Contents
PieceWork | 3 |
Why the Time Is Out of Joint Marxs Political Economy without the Subject | 23 |
Time Signatures Post Responsibilities | 39 |
Building a New Left An Interview with Ernesto Laclau | 57 |
La Ville en Rose Reading Jameson Mapping Space | 75 |
Foucaults Fallacy | 95 |
The Politics of Postmetaphysics | 115 |
FROM THEORY TO CULTURE | 131 |
The Making of Derrida at the Little Bighorn An Interview | 145 |
All the Stupid Sex Stuff | 159 |
Migrant Landscapes | 169 |
Leave It to Beaver The Object of Pornography | 187 |
Heretical Marxism Pasolinis Cinema Inpopolare | 225 |
Missing Marx Or How to Take Better Aim | 249 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 269 |
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