Scenes from postmodern life / Beatriz Sarlo ; translated by Jon Beasley-Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarlo, Beatriz.

Series:

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 7.

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 7

Standardized Title:

Escenas de la vida posmoderna. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Arts.

Argentina--Civilization--1955-.

Argentina.

Civilization.

Arts--Argentina.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Argentina.

Television broadcasting.

Intellectuals--Argentina.

Argentina--Intellectual life.

Local Subjects:

Argentina--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xix, 170 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

In this bracing book. Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing.

As postmodernity and late capitalism reinvent culture and society, social and cultural critique must also be reinvented -- and in Scenes from Postmodern Life Sarlo aims to show how this might be done. Her readings of cultural practices such as television zapping, playing video games, or shopping at the mall; her vignettes of traditional intellectuals and practitioners of high art; her discussions of popular culture and the dissolution of social identities: these, as well as Sarlo's own writerly stance, go a considerable way toward developing the role of thinking in global times.

Contents:

Translator's Introduction: In Argentina vii

1. Abundance and Poverty 9

2. The Waking Dream 44

3. Popular Cultures, Old and New 86

4. The Place of Art 107

5. Intellectuals 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170).

ISBN:

0816630089

0816630097

OCLC:

47296126