Cultural Resistance : A Reader

by DUNCOMBE, STEPHEN

• ISBN13: 9781859846599
• ISBN10: 1859846599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those he has already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disneyworld, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the 1995 French public sector workers' strike, the Rushdie fatwa, mad cow disease and genetic cloning. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard is -- pace his critics -- still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(16)
Cultural Resistance	17	(18)
``Levellers and True Levellers,'' from The World Turned Upside Down	17	(18)
Christopher Hill
The Politics of Culture	35	(47)
``Culture,'' from Keywords	35	(6)
Raymond Williams
from The German Ideology	41	(8)
Karl Marx
Frederick Engels
from Culture and Anarchy	49	(9)
Matthew Arnold
from The Prison Notebooks	58	(9)
Antonio Gramsci
``The Author as Producer''	67	(15)
Walter Benjamin
A Politics That Doesn't Look Like Politics	82	(53)
from Rabelais and His World	82	(7)
Mikhail Bakhtin
from Weapons of the Weak	89	(7)
James G. Scott
from Race, Rebels	96	(3)
Robin D.G. Kelley
``Why Is There No Black Political Movement?''	99	(1)
Adolph Reed Jr.
``The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media''	100	(13)
Jean Baudrillard
from TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone	113	(5)
Hakim Bey
from Generation Ecstasy	118	(13)
Simon Reynolds
``Huge Mob Tortures Negro,'' account of a lynching in 1920	131	(4)
Subcultures and Primitive Rebels	135	(58)
from Primitive Rebels	135	(14)
E.J. Hobsbawm
``OGs in Postindustrial Los Angeles'', from Race Rebels	149	(8)
Robin D.G. Kelley
``The Zoot-suit and Style Warfare''	157	(9)
Stuart Cosgrove
``The Meaning of Mod''	166	(8)
Dick Hehdige
``The Skinheads and the Magical Recovery of Community''	174	(4)
John Clarke
``Riot Grrrl Is...''	178	(2)
Riot Grrrl
interview in Punk Planet	180	(3)
Kathleen Hanna
``Emphasis on Sport''	183	(2)
Bertolt Brecht
``Notes on Deconstructing `the Popular'''	185	(8)
Stuart Hall
Dismantling the Master's House	193	(47)
``The Ghost Dance War'', from Sister to the Sioux
Elaine Goodale Eastman	193	(7)
from Hind Swaraj	200	(5)
Mahatma Gandhi
from Beyond a Boundary	205	(10)
C.L.R. James
``Slave Songs and Slave Consciousness''	215	(16)
Lawrence Levine
``Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin'', from Dangerous Crossroads	231	(9)
George Lipsitz
A Woman's Place	240	(35)
from A Room of One's Own	240	(8)
Virginia Woolf
Radicalesbians ``The Woman-Identified Woman''	248	(6)
``A Broom of One's Own,'' from Bust	254	(5)
Jean Railla
from Reading the Romance	259	(8)
Janice A. Radway
``Shopping for Pleasure'' from Rending the Popular	267	(8)
John Fiske
Commodities, Co-Optation, and Culture Jamming	275	(58)
``On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening''	275	(28)
Theodore Adorno
from The Uses of Literary	303	(9)
Richard Hoggart
from Exile's Return	312	(4)
Malcolm Cowley
``Why Johnny Can't Dissent''	316	(11)
Thomas Frank
from Revolution for the Hell of It	327	(3)
Abbie Hoffman
from Do It!	330	(3)
Jerry Rubin
Mixing Pop and Politics	333	(64)
``The Politics of Prefigurative Community''	333	(14)
Barbara Epstein
``The Art of Necessity: The Subversive Imagination of Anti-road Protest and Reclaim the Streets''	347	(11)
John Jordan
``The God that People Who Do Not Believe in God Believe In: Taking a Bust with Reverend Billy''	358	(11)
Jason Grote
``Truth Is a Virus: Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)''	369	(10)
Andrew Boyd
``Electronic Disturbance: An Interview''	379	(18)
Ricardo Dominguez
Notes	397	(36)
Notes on contributors	433	(10)
Permissions	443