From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical TheoristsJon Simons Edinburgh University Press, 2010 M09 10 - 288 pages In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranciere and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists. |
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... Analysis and other journals. Her book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Cornell, 2010), deploys her long- standing interest in Actor- Network Theory to explore ethnographically how people use different communicative ...
... Analysis and other journals. Her book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Cornell, 2010), deploys her long- standing interest in Actor- Network Theory to explore ethnographically how people use different communicative ...
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... analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory ...
... analysis, structuralism and post- structuralism, ideology critique of all varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory ...
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... analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was a prevailing post-structuralist trend in critical theory. Yet, taken as a whole, the critical theorists written about in this volume ...
... analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was a prevailing post-structuralist trend in critical theory. Yet, taken as a whole, the critical theorists written about in this volume ...
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... analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow- traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post- structuralism a penchant for deconstructing binaries, as well as a ...
... analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow- traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post- structuralism a penchant for deconstructing binaries, as well as a ...
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... analysis of the information age and network society by Manuel Castells, to Régis Debray's 'mediology', to the embodied media theory of Brian Massumi. The coverage of science and technology studies would have benefited from a chapter on ...
... analysis of the information age and network society by Manuel Castells, to Régis Debray's 'mediology', to the embodied media theory of Brian Massumi. The coverage of science and technology studies would have benefited from a chapter on ...
Contents
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4 Homi K Bhabha 1949 | 60 |
5 Judith Butler 1956 | 77 |
6 Cornelius Castoriadis 192297 | 93 |
7 Green Critical Theorists | 110 |
10 Bruno Latour 1947 | 161 |
11 Antonio Negri 1933 | 177 |
12 Jacques Rancière 1940 | 194 |
13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1942 | 210 |
14 Paul Virilio 1932 | 227 |
15 Slavoj Žižek 1949 | 243 |
Names index | 259 |
Subject index | 263 |
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