Cultural Theory

VOLUME 1: LEGACIES AND INNOVATIONS Beginnings The Uses of Literacy and the Cultural Turn - Stuart Hall Base and Superstructure in Marxist Theory - Raymond Williams Orientalism Reconsidered - Edward Said Culture and Communication: Toward an ethnographic critique of media consumption in the transnational media system - Ien Ang Useful Culture - Tony Bennett Neoliberal Newspeak - Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The human sciences and cultural sociology - Jeffrey C. Alexander Power and Agency The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without guarantees - Stuart Hall The Orthopsychic Subject: Film theory and the reception of Lacan - Joan Copjec Post-Marxism without Apologies - Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of government - Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose Power after Hegemony: Cultural studies in mutation - Scott Lash Representation, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life Fiction and Its Phantoms: A reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "Uncanny") - Helene Cixous After Representation - Ian Hunter Too-blue: Colour-patch for an expanded empiricism - Brian Massumi The Aristocracy of Culture - Pierre Bourdieu On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life - Michel de Certeau VOLUME 2: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE AND BODY Collectives and Classification The Social Space and the Genesis of Groups - Pierre Bourdieu Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation - Seyla Benhabib The Commitment to Theory - Homi Bhabha Humans, Animals, Machines - Kate Soper The Gendered Ontology of Multitude - Mary Hawkesworth Can Immanence Explain Social Struggles? - Ernesto Laclau Race Ends Here - Paul Gilroy Identity, Style, and Performance Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory - Judith Butler Femininity as Performance - Valerie Walkerdine Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary - Kobena Mercer The Toilet Paper: Femininity, class and mis-recognition - Beverley Skeggs On Ethics and Feminism: Reflecting on Levinas' ethics of non-(in)difference - Vikki Bell On 'The Necessity and "Impossibility" of Identities': The politics and ethics of 'new ethnicities' - Brett St Louis Bodies, Objects and Experiencing the World Feminism, Film Theory and the Bachelor Machines - Constance Penley Social Cinema Scenes - Nirmal Puwar The History of Sensibilities: Of the standard of taste in mid-eighteenth century England and the circulation of smells in post-revolutionary France - David Howes and Marc Lalonde What if it didn't All Begin and End with Containment? Toward a leaky sense of self - Erin Manning Getting Real: Technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality - Karen Barad The Nature of Prozac - Mariam Fraser A Relativistic Account of Einstein's Relativity - Bruno Latour VOLUME 3: ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL HUMANITY Spaces and Environments Politics and Space/Time - Doreen Massey Spaces of Identity - David Morley and Kevin Robins The Political Mobilization of Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Formal Gardens - Chandra Mukerji Testing Powers of Engagement: Green Living Experiments, the Ontological Turn and the Undoability of Involvement - Noortje Marres Technological Zones - Andrew Barry Urbanisation European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy - Manuel Castells The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities and the laws of chaos - Mike Davis People as Infrastructure: Intersecting fragments in Johannesburg - Abdul Maliq Simone Ordering Insecurity: Social Polarization and the Punitive Upsurge - Loic Wacquant Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's gay village - Jon Binnie and Beverley Skeggs Urbanism and City Spaces in the Work of Stuart Hall - Michael Keith Politics and Humanity Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein Cultural Studies and the Neo-Liberal Imagination - John Frow Islam in Public: New visibilities and new imaginaries - Nilufer Goele Cosmopolitan Modernity: Everyday imaginaries and the register of difference - Mica Nava The fetish of the margins: religious absolutism, anti-racism and postcolonial silence - Chetan Bhatt Sexual politics, torture and secular time - Judith Butler Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben's 'Bare Life' and the politics of aesthetics - Anthony Downey The Childhood of Human Rights: The Kodak on the Congo - Sharon Sliwinski "When Ignorant Armies Clash by Night": Homogenous community and the planetary aspect - Paul Gilroy VOLUME 4: ECONOMY, TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE Cultural and Creative Industry Film and Business History: The development of an American mass entertainment industry - Douglas Gomery Cultural Studies as Performative - Henry Giroux Representing the Enterprising Self: Thirtysomething and contemporary consumer culture - Frances Bonner and Paul du Gay Fashion Culture: Creative work, female individualization - Angela McRobbie In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work - Ros Gill and Andy Pratt Cultural Economy Toward a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign - Jean Baudrillard Turning Callon the right way up - Daniel Miller Trader's Engagement with Markets: A postsocial relationship - Karin Knorr-Cetina and Ure Bruegger Geomoney: An option on frost, going long on clouds - Michael Pryke Brand as Assemblage: Assembling culture - Celia Lury The New Economy, Property and Personhood - Lisa Adkins Technology and Knowledge Knowledge and Class - John Frow Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence? Moses' Bridges, Winner's Bridges and Other urban Legends in SandTS - Steve Woolgar and Geoff Cooper Science as Culture, Cultures of Science - Sarah Franklin AIDS, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse: An epidemic of signification - Paula Treichler The Body and the Digital Archive: The Visible Human Project and the computerization of medicine - Catherine Waldby Communication Beyond Meaning: On the cultural politics of information - Tiziana Terranova Topologies: Michel Serres and the shapes of thought - Steven Connor