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. |
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Contents
PieceWork | 3 |
Marxs Political Economy | 23 |
Post Responsibilities | 39 |
An Interview with Ernesto Laclau | 57 |
Reading Jameson Mapping Space | 75 |
Foucaults Fallacy | 95 |
The Politics of Postmetaphysics | 115 |
All the Stupid Sex Stuff | 159 |
The Object of Pornography | 187 |
Pasolinis Cinema Inpopulare | 225 |
Or How to Take Better Aim | 249 |
Contributors | 269 |
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