In May 2004, Jeremy Lanosga was a talented competitive racquetball player with a promising future in the world of sports. On a beautiful Sunday evening, Jeremy decided to travel to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take photographs of the sunset. While preparing to descend a rock formation, he slipped and plummeted more than fifty feet-fracturing the C5 vertebrae in his neck. The tragic fall left him clinging to life and paralyzed from the neck down. Author Adam Katz is Jeremy's friend and has been playing tournament racquetball for more than twenty years. "Jeremy's...

Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists...