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Cultural Theory
An Anthology

"This anthology is an extraordinarily useful toolbox for teaching cultural theory.  But more than that, by organizing the texts around a series of core concepts, it not only provides students with an excellent introduction but also gives scholars a fresh perspective on the field."
—Michael Hardt, Duke University

“Cultural theory has expanded its influence immensely over the past two decades. Now we have a comprehensive selection of the best and most influential writers in the field, ably compiled and introduced by expert editors.”
—Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside

“The introductory chapters for each section are uniformly cogent and well written, and the choices of material are judicious and at times refreshingly unexpected. Cultural Theory: An Anthology is set to become the standard classroom text in the field.”
— Nicholas Lawrence, University of Warwick

“Essential reading for all students of culture, whatever their disciplinary background.”
—Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London

Imre Szeman (Edited by), I Szeman (Author), Timothy Kaposy (Edited by)

9781405180832, Wiley

Hardback, published 13 April 2010

560 pages
25.4 x 19.8 x 3.6 cm, 1.225 kg

"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)

Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory

  •  Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as   Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” (1986), Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control” (1992), and Fredric Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979)
  • Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study —the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity
  • Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author
  • A large annotated   bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion
  • Features a useful glossary of critical terms

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Part 1 Reforming Culture 5

Introduction 7

1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12

2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18

3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27

4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40

5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53

6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60

7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72

8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81

Additional Readings 94

Part 2 Power 99

Introduction 101

9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106

10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109

11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114

12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124

13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134

14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139

15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143

Additional Readings 150

Part 3 Ideology 155

Introduction 157

16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161

17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172

18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188

19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204

20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223

21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228

Additional Readings 245

Part 4 Space and Scale 249

Introduction 251

22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255

23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264

24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274

25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282

26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space/Time” (1992) 296

27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307

28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318

Additional Readings 332

Part 5 Temporality 335

Introduction 337

29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341

30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353

31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357

32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364

33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376

34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391

35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401

Additional Readings 412

Part 6 Subjectivity 415

Introduction 417

36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422

37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432

38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449

39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454

40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (1990) 472

41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492

42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504

Additional Readings 528

Glossary of Terms 531

Sources 538

Index 541

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
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