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OverviewCultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps. After an introduction which explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognisable and largely unrecognised in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archives, empires, hybrids and exchange up against the practical criticism of anti-capitalism. Engaging with the work of key thinkers: Jacques Derrida, James Clifford, Gayatri Spivak, Georges Bataille, Homi Bhabha, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Hutnyk concludes by advocating an open Marxism that is both pro-party and pro-critique, while being neither dogmatic, nor dull. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John HutnykPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.497kg ISBN: 9780745322674ISBN 10: 0745322670 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 20 June 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cultural Studies as Capitalism Part I: Clifford's Ethnographica 1. Clifford and Malinowski 2. Fort Ross Mystifications Part II: derrida@marx.archive 3. Fever 4. Spectres 5. Struggles Part III: Tales from Raj 6. On Empire 7. Difference and Opposition 8. The Chapatti Story Part IV: Bataille's Wars: Surrealism, Marxism, Fascism 9. Librarian 10. Activist 11. Anthropologist 12. Provocateur Conclusion: The Cultivation of Capital Studies Notes References IndexReviews'Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know.' Amitava Kumar, Penn State University ""'Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know.' Amitava Kumar, Penn State University"" Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know. He is among the finest Marxist polemicists writing today. There are none who can be as devastating in their critique of commodification. -- Amitava Kumar, Associate Professor, Penn State University John Hutnyk is a very fine thinker, a sharp analyst of what is wrong with the academy and a careful reader, at the same time, of those ideas he won't always go along with. -- Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare (South End Press) Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know. He is among the finest Marxist polemicists writing today. There are none who can be as devastating in their critique of commodification. -- Amitava Kumar, Associate Professor, Penn State University John Hutnyk is a very fine thinker, a sharp analyst of what is wrong with the academy and a careful reader, at the same time, of those ideas he won,t always go along with. -- Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare (South End Press) Author InformationJohn Hutnyk is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London, and the author of Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (Pluto Press, 2000). He also wrote The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (Zed, 1996) and was co-editor of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music, (with Sanjay and Ash Sharma, Zed, 1996) and Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics (with Raminder Kaur, Zed, 1999). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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