Culture Control Critique

Allegories of Reading the Present

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Frida Beckman

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When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form. Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and recurring political logic that controls the desire for political change.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-05-03
Mått151 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Antal sidor170
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781783488018

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This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of cultural critique at the present moment. Beckman deftly limns out the contours of our contemporary “control society,” and then zeroes in on the current trend for producing cultural productions that take themselves to be allegories of this condition (everything from DeLillo’s fiction to The Hunger Games). This is important work, furthering our ongoing, collective diagnosis of the present