Cultural Theory

Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (2003); co-author of Popular Culture: A User's Guide (2004, 2009); and co-editor of Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (2000), the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (2005), and Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (2009). Timothy Kaposy is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University, Virginia.

• Acknowledgments xIntroduction 1Part 1 Reforming Culture 5Introduction 71 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 122 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 183 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 274 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 405 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 536 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 607 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 728 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81Additional Readings 94Part 2 Power 99Introduction 1019 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 10610 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 10911 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 11412 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 12413 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 13414 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 13915 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143Additional Readings 150Part 3 Ideology 155Introduction 15716 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 16117 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 17218 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 18819 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 20420 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 22321 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228Additional Readings 245Part 4 Space and Scale 249Introduction 25122 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 25523 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 26424 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 27425 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 28226 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space/Time” (1992) 29627 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 30728 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318Additional Readings 332Part 5 Temporality 335Introduction 33729 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 34130 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 35331 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 35732 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 36433 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 37634 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 39135 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401Additional Readings 412Part 6 Subjectivity 415Introduction 41736 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 42237 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 43238 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 44939 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 45440 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (1990) 47241 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 49242 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504Additional Readings 528Glossary of Terms 531Sources 538Index 541

"Even if it does not engage this question of the animal, Cultural Theory constitutes a valuable resource for scholars, as well as a springboard for fur¬ther discussion." (Snell Review, 2011)