A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory by Imre Szeman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction

References

Part I: Lineages

1 Frankfurt – New York – San Diego 1924–1968; or, Critical Theory

Frankfurt 1924–1935, The Welter of Method New York 1935–1953, Life Subsumed San Diego 1965–, Quandary of the Riot References

2 Vienna 1899 – Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis

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3 Paris 1955–1968; or, Structuralism

Foundations Structure Theoretical Anti‐Humanism The Scientific Turn History as Structure without a Subject The Split Subject High Structuralism The Revenge of History References

4 Birmingham – Urbana‐Champaign 1964–1990; or, Cultural Studies

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5 Baltimore – New Haven 1966–1983; or, Deconstruction

Deconstruction, Without Limit… (Introduction) DerridAmerica (Phase I) “Boa‐Deconstructors” (Phase II) Deconstruction, Engaged (Phase III) Momentous Inconclusions References

6 Paris – Boston – Berkeley – the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949–1990; or, Gender and Sexuality

On the Times of Gender and Sexuality 1979/1949/1989: Situating Consciousness 1980/1995–1997/2006/2012: Presses, Anthologies, Counter‐Public Spheres 1976/1961/1990/1983: Other Foucaults Incendiary Legacies References

7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort – Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail – Pretoria/Robben Island 1947–1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism

Colonialism Race Decolonization Postcolonialism References

8 Petrograd/Leningrad – Havana – Beijing 1917–1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice

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9 Chile – Seattle – Cairo 1973–2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism

Chile and New York City 1973–1975 Chiapas and Seattle 1994–1999 Cairo and Greece 2008–Present Addendum References

Part II: Problematics

Section A: Living and Laboring

10 Subjectivity

Subjectivity and Power: Marxist Lineages From the Subject of Production to the Production of the Subject Neoliberal Subjectivity References

11 Diaspora and Migration

Towards an Analytics of Diasporic Culture Jalleh’s Diasporic Culture Diasporic Culture as a Culture of Capitalist Modernity The Diasporic Condition References

12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities

The Critique of Community Alternative Terms and Alternative Formulations: Queer World‐Building The Supplementarity of Affective Collectivity with Capitalism? References

13 Feminism

Feminist Theory and the Value of Materialism Materialism and Feminist Praxis Body: The Labor of Social Reproduction Mind: Feminist Knowledge Heart: The Value of Affect and Collective Action References

14 Gender and Queer Theory

Public Feelings: Affective Responses to Precarity Rethinking Terms: Queer of Color Analyses and Precarity After Sexuality? References

15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies

Abundance from Scarcity Derivative Logics Rationalization, Solidarity, Socialization Decolonizing Divisions Reclaiming the Wealth of Society References

16 Work and Precarity

Hegel Marx Spinoza Conclusion References

Section B: Being and Knowing

17 Religion and Secularism

Narratives of Secularization Constructing Religion Contemporary Secularism Conclusion References

18 Affect

Romanticism/Realism Speculation/Materialism References

19 Indigenous Epistemes

Indigenous Epistemes Epistemic Ignorance Knowing the Other Responsibility for Doing Homework “Learning from Below” Acknowledgments References

20 The Everyday, Taste, Class

Taste: Classifying the Classifiers Attachment, Deliberation, and Dreams Coda References

21 Disability Studies

Getting Familiar with Disability Studies: Introducing the Social Model Defamiliarizing Disability: Complicating the Social Model Are We Familiar Yet? References

22 Unsound

“A True Sound Which Is Not in Reality,” or Duverney’s Dilemma “Sounds That We Have Never Heard Before We Remember Them,” or Benjamin’s Déjà Entendu “No‐Point‐of‐Audition,” or McLuhan’s Acoustic Space Conclusion References

23 Screen Life

What to Do Futurity Prosumer and Cognitarian Creative Industries Waste Conclusion References

24 Digital and New Media

Digital Culture: From Cyberspace to Social Media Effects on Knowledge and Theory New Media as Leak Coda: Habitual New Media References

25 Science and Technology

Natural History and its Discontents Science Fictional Environments The State of the Species Acknowledgments References

Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging

26 Circulation

The Circulatory Economy Circulation and the City Circulation in the Domain of Discourse Conclusion: Circulation Forever? References

27 Cultural Production

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28 Decolonization

Objects Subjects Coda: Decolonizing Theory References

29 Race and Ethnicity

Ethnicity’s Origins The Many‐Headed Hydra of Race Biological Caesuras References

30 Humanism

Back to the 1840s: Political Humanism in Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx References

31 Nature

Empty/Full Time/Space Beginning/End References

32 Scale

An Epoch of Space: From the Urban Questionto the Modern World‐System Henri Lefebvre and the Dialectic of Scale Scale and the Sublime Scale without Humans References

33 Narrative

Narratological Approaches to Narrative Narrative, Culture, Identity References

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