Cultural Theory

Cultural Theory: An Anthology presents a comprehensive collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory. The editors have selected readings from key theorists and authors, including Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault and Fredric Jameson, whose ideas remain most relevant to the analysis and study of culture today. The concepts discussed cross several disciplines, with sections covering subjects such as power, ideology, the organization of space and time, and the production of subjectivity. The readings presented in this carefully chosen compilation reflect the most influential ideas that have emerged in each of these areas -- ideas that have been put to use in myriad ways in the study and critical assessment of modern culture. Brief introductions to each thematically-linked section summarize the readings and their context, making the anthology accessible to the student reader as well as to faculty and researchers.

Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part 1 Reforming Culture 5
Introduction 7
1 Matthew Arnold, "Sweetness and Light" (1869) 12
2 Thorstein Veblen, "Conspicuous Consumption" (1899) 18
3 Herbert Marcuse, "The Affirmative Character of Culture" (1937) 27
4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944) 40
5 Raymond Williams, "Culture Is Ordinary" (1958) 53
6 Fredric Jameson, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture" (1979) 60
7 Stuart Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular' " (1981) 72
8 Pierre Bourdieu, "The Forms of Capital" (1986) 81
Additional Readings 94
Part 2 Power 99
Introduction 101
9 Karl Marx, "Preface" to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106
10 Carl Schmitt, "Definition of Sovereignty" (1922) 109
11 Frantz Fanon, "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness" (1961) 114
12 Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976" (1976) 124
13 Michel Foucault, "Method" (1976) 134
14 Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control" (1992) 139
15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, "Biopolitical Production" (2000) 143
Additional Readings 150
Part 3 Ideology 155
Introduction 157
16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "The German Ideology" (1845) 161
17 Georg Luká cs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) 172
18 Antonio Gramsci, "Hegemony" (1929) 188
19 Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)" (1970) 204
20 Stuart Hall, "Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note" (1980) 223
21 Slavoj ? i? ek, "The Spectre of Ideology" (1989) 228
Additional Readings 245
Part 4 Space and Scale 249
Introduction 251
22 Dick Hebdige, "The Function of Subculture" (1979) 255
23 Michel de Certeau, "Walking in the City" (1980) 264
24 Benedict Anderson, "Imagined Communities" (1983) 274
25 Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" (1990) 282
26 Doreen Massey, "Politics and Space/Time" (1992) 296
27 David Harvey, "The Body as an Accumulation Strategy" (2000) 307
28 Mike Davis, "Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat" (2004) 318
Additional Readings 332
Part 5 Temporality 335
Introduction 337
29 Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (1977) 341
30 Raymond Williams, "Dominant, Residual, and Emergent" (1977) 353
31 Jean-Franç ois Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?" (1979) 357
32 Fernand Braudel, "History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Duré e" (1980) 364
33 Fredric Jameson, "Periodizing the 60s" (1984) 376
34 Roberto Schwarz, "Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination" (1992) 391
35 Ranajit Guha, "A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography" (1997) 401
Additional Readings 412
Part 6 Subjectivity 415
Introduction 417
36 Frantz Fanon, "The Lived Experience of the Black Man" (1952) 422
37 Jacques Lacan, "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud" (1957) 432
38 Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which Is Not One" (1977) 449
39 Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1985) 454
40 Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire" (1990) 472
41 Paul Gilroy, "It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At" (1990) 492
42 Eve Sedgwick, "Axiomatic" (1990) 504
Additional Readings 528
Glossary of Terms 531
Sources 538
Index 541