From Agamben to ZizekEdinburgh 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. |
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... Society in the 21st Century (Continuum, 2002). Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. He has written or edited six books on Bauman ...
... Society in the 21st Century (Continuum, 2002). Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. He has written or edited six books on Bauman ...
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... Society at Drake University and holds a PhD in Rhetorical Studies from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include aesthetics, materiality, subjectivity, cultural geography, domestic space and queer, feminist and critical ...
... Society at Drake University and holds a PhD in Rhetorical Studies from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include aesthetics, materiality, subjectivity, cultural geography, domestic space and queer, feminist and critical ...
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... Society Green theorists 1970s Haraway 1985 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' Laclau and Mouffe 1985 Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Latour 1993 We Have Never Been Modern Negri 2000 Empire Rancière 1998 Disagreement Spivak 1988 'Can the Subaltern ...
... Society Green theorists 1970s Haraway 1985 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' Laclau and Mouffe 1985 Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Latour 1993 We Have Never Been Modern Negri 2000 Empire Rancière 1998 Disagreement Spivak 1988 'Can the Subaltern ...
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... society, culture, media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed ...
... society, culture, media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed ...
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... 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 Isabelle Stengers, just as that of post ...
... 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 Isabelle Stengers, just as that of post ...
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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