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Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking.
Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.
This guide to deconstruction ranges across topics and discourses, from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). But each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions.
Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. This work puts art at the centre of politics.
This guide to deconstruction ranges across topics and discourses, from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). But each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions.
* Major new work in feminist theory, cultural theory and gender studies * Author is well known in the fields of feminism and post--structuralism and for her work on problems of identity and difference.
Jacques Derrida is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This guide provides students with an introduction to Derrida, the key concepts and ideas associated with his work and the major subjects he addresses. It also introduces Derrida's ideas, work, reception and his wider philosophical and critical influence.
Derrida addressed political questions more and more explicitly in his writing, yet there is still confusion over the politics of deconstruction. This book evaluates and substantiates Derrida's provocative claim, assessing the importance of this controversial contemporary philosopher's work for political thought.
This introduction to the politics of poststructuralism focuses on two interrelated themes: the culture of Western Marxism and contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. One of the book's main arguments is that poststructuralism is not a form of anti-Marxism.
This book provides readers with a fresh look at both Derridean deconstruction and Lacanian theory from a perspective that is informed by recent trends in twentieth century thought.
Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early twenty-first century. This book explores the links between modernity and consumption. It draws on case studies from around the world, with Africa, Asia and Central America. It presents accounts of globalization and consumerism.
A philosopher and art theorist extends the postructuralist theory of revolution to the nexus of art and activism.