Class in Culture

ISBN-13: 9781594513145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 244 str.

Teresa L. Ebert; Mas'ud Zavarzadeh

Opis

"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture, the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology, consumption, globalization, and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world.

Spis treści

The Public Theorist Acknowledgments PART I: All That Is Cultural Is Real-All That Is Real Is Cultural Chapter 1: Getting Class Out of Culture Chapter 2: Class Binaries and the Rise of Private Property PART II: Tracing Class Chapter 3: Class Is Chapter 4: Abu Ghraib and Class Erotics Chapter 5: Class and 9/11 Chapter 6: Eating Class Chapter 7: The Class Politics of "Values" and Stem-Cell Funding Chapter 8: Abortion Is a Class Matter Chapter 9: E-Education as a Class Technology Chapter 10: Gender after Class Chapter 11: The Class Logic of A Beautiful Mind PART III: Class Ecstasies of the Culture of Capitol Chapter 12: A "Potlatch of Signs"--Burning, Consuming, Wasting

O autorze

Teresa L. Ebert, Mas’ud Zavarzadeh