Bad Marxism [Electronic resource] : : Capitalism and cultural studies / by John Hutnyk.
By: Hutnyk, John
Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2004Description: 256 p electronic book; 0 cm001: 10332ISBN: 0745322670Subject(s): Culture | Mass media | Capitalism | MarxismOnline resources: Available online from the Academic Library.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps.After an introduction which explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognisable and largely unrecognised in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archives, empires, hybrids and exchange up against the practical criticism of anti-capitalism.Engaging with the work of key thinkers: Jacques Derrida, James Clifford, Gayatri Spivak, Georges Bataille, Homi Bhabha, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Hutnyk concludes by advocating an open Marxism that is both pro-party and pro-critique, while being neither dogmatic, nor dull.
Critical political analysis of how Cultural Studies has used and abused Marxism, offering a close reading of Derrida and Negri
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. vii)
- Introduction: Cultural Studies as Capitalism (p. 1)
- Part 1 Clifford's Ethnographica (p. 17)
- 1 Clifford and Malinowski (p. 19)
- 2 Fort Ross Mystifications (p. 35)
- Part 2 derrida@marx.archive (p. 55)
- 3 Fever (p. 57)
- 4 Spectres (p. 78)
- 5 Struggles (p. 96)
- Part 3 Tales from the Raj (p. 113)
- 6 On Empire (p. 115)
- 7 Difference and Opposition (p. 128)
- 8 The Chapatti Story (p. 139)
- Part 4 Bataille's Wars: Surrealism, Marxism, Fascism (p. 153)
- 9 Librarian (p. 155)
- 10 Activist (p. 163)
- 11 Anthropologist (p. 170)
- 12 Provocateur (p. 177)
- Conclusion: The Cultivation of Capital Studies (p. 183)
- Notes (p. 208)
- References (p. 231)
- Index (p. 243)
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