Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
Seiten
2016
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-800-1 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-800-1 (ISBN)
Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the totalizing tendencies of control society.
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.
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.
Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden
Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. Culture, Control, Critique / 2. Formalism, Allegory, Totality / 3. Space, Allegory, Control / 4. Time, Allegory, Control / 5. Vision, Allegory, Control / Conclusion / Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78348-800-X / 178348800X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78348-800-1 / 9781783488001 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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