Bad Marxism : capitalism and cultural studies / John Hutnyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutnyk, John, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and social sciences.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Socialism and culture.

Communism and culture.

Capitalism.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know.' Amitava Kumar, Penn State University Cultural 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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Clifford's ethnographica

pt. 2. Derrida@marx.archive

pt. 3. Tales from the Raj

pt. 4. Bataille's wars : surrealism, Marxism, fascism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.

ISBN:

9786611750534

9781849644693

1849644691

9781281750532

1281750530

9781435660908

1435660900

OCLC:

666936207