Culture in Bits The Monstrous Future of Theory

by Hall, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780826459909
• ISBN10: 0826459900
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-27
• Publisher: Athlone Pr

Summary

Cultural Studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's preoccupation with the empirical and the theory revolutions of the 1980s and 90s. Assessing the work of key theorists across the history of cultural studies--Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Meaghan Morris and Angela McRobbie--Culture In Bits argues that the trend towards a more politicized practice is in fact not political enough; theory, and deconstruction in particular, can offer a more radical and a more political engagement.Pinpointing the ambiguities that both constitute and disturb cultural studies and outlining a radical agenda for its future, Culture in Bits is vital reading for all interested in cultural practice and theory.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Some Frequently Asked Questions	1	(19)
The One About a `Deconstructive Cultural Studies'	1	(1)
The One About Deconstruction as Critique	2	(2)
The One About Theory	4	(3)
The One About the Language	7	(1)
The One About Textuality	8	(2)
The One About the Social Sciences	10	(1)
The One About Reconceptualizing Cultural Studies	11	(2)
The One About Why Cultural Studies	13	(2)
The One About `Paradoxical' Discourses	15	(1)
The One About Other Examples	16	(1)
The One About the Future	17	(1)
The One About History	18	(2)
`It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate': Why Cultural Studies is so `Naff'	20	(21)
Cultural Studies and Popular Culture	20	(5)
Hate and War: Cultural Critique Versus Cultural Populism	25	(5)
`We are not You'	30	(5)
At the Crossroads of Magic and Positivism	35	(6)
`Something Else Besides': The Third Way of Angela McRobbie	41	(24)
The Third Way	41	(14)
Possibilities	41	(6)
`A New Kind of Materialism'	47	(4)
(Ir)reconciling the Irreconcilable	51	(4)
`Something Else Besides'	55	(10)
More `New Questions for Feminism and Cultural Studies'	56	(3)
Cultural Studies (Angela McRobbie/Jacques Derrida Mix)	59	(6)
The (Monstrous) Future of Cultural Studies	65	(30)
One More Time: The Politics of Cultural Studies	65	(3)
The Politics of `The Politics of Cultural Studies'	68	(6)
Cultural Studies and the Politics of Deconstruction	74	(3)
Cultural Studies to Come	77	(6)
`...A Theoretical Point...'	83	(3)
The Future of Cultural Studies Revisited	86	(5)
The Future is Bright, the Future is Monstrous	91	(4)
Beyond Marxism and Psychoanalysis	95	(16)
The Subject in Question	95	(4)
The Paradoxes of Cultural Criticism	99	(2)
Subject Boundaries	101	(5)
The End of Analysis: Hypnosis	106	(3)
Post-Psychoanalysis?	109	(2)
www.culturalstudies.ac.uk	111	(20)
Cultural Studies of Cultural Studies	111	(1)
There is Nothing Outside the University	112	(3)
From Disciplinarity	115	(1)
...To Inter-Disciplinarity	116	(1)
...And Beyond	117	(1)
This Is Excellent	118	(5)
The University in Bits	123	(3)
What if Hoggart had had e-Mail?	126	(5)
Notes	131	(30)
Index	161