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Interdisciplinary essays on the role of high theory in politics and popular culture.
Interdisciplinary in scope and often provocative in their choice of materials, the essays in this volume present new strategies for theorizing culture and politics. Not content simply to "apply" theory to political and cultural objects, they instead treat all three as complex, interconnected, and constantly evolving areas of inquiry. Drawn from the innovative work originally published in Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics, the essays collected here explore a variety of topics, ranging from considerations of Marx, Foucault, Jameson, and Rorty to investigations of Madonna, Pasolini, pornography, and vampires. Lively and inventive, Strategies for Theory goes beyond conventional cultural studies and cultural politics in order to suggest new approaches to both.
Contributors include Teresa Brennan, William Chaloupka, Iain Chambers, Kelly Dennis, Ernesto Laclau, John P. Leavey Jr., Bradley J. Macdonald, Marilyn Manners, Donald Preziosi, Kriss Ravetto, Laurence A. Rickels, R. L. Rutsky, Michael Ryan, Keith Topper, Gregory L. Ulmer, and Samuel Weber.
"Theory in relation to culture and politics is a central issue that pervades the humanities, arts, and social sciences today. This book presents leading scholars in the areas of theory, cultural studies, and political analysis who offer surprising perspectives on this topic. A fascinating read." — Mark Poster, editor of Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture
"An excellent collection that offers both compelling critical views of established figures and theoretically inflected considerations of cultural phenomena." — Jeffrey J. Williams, coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Introduction
From Marx to Madonna: Theory, Culture, Politics
R. L. Rutsky and Bradley J. Macdonald
PART I: FROM POLITICS TO THEORY
1. Piece-Work
Samuel Weber
2. Why the Time Is Out of Joint: Marx's Political Economy without the Subject
Teresa Brennan
3. Time Signatures: Post*.* Responsibilities
John P. Leavey Jr.
4. Building a New Left: An Interview with Ernesto Laclau
Strategies Collective
5. La Vi(ll)e en Rose: Reading Jameson Mapping Space
Donald Preziosi
6. Foucault's Fallacy
Michael Ryan
7. The Politics of Postmetaphysics
Keith Topper
PART II: FROM THEORY TO CULTURE
8. Rodney King and the Awkward Pause: Interpretation and Politics
William Chaloupka
9. The Making of "Derrida at the Little Bighorn": An Interview
Gregory L. Ulmer
10. All the Stupid "Sex Stuff"
Marilyn Manners
11. Migrant Landscapes
Iain Chambers
12. Leave It to Beaver: The Object of Pornography
Kelly Dennis
13. Heretical Marxism: Pasolini's Cinema Inpopulare
Kriss Ravetto
14. Missing Marx: Or, How to Take Better Aim
Laurence A. Rickels
Contributors
Index