Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention (Taking on the Political)

Paul Bowman

Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory. It argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project -- that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as having a developed theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be both practical and political. Bowman examines these intertwined, overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of intervention: what is the intervention of post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes?

Acknowledgements; Preface; One - Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism; Introduction: Of Deconstruction into Politics; The Text of Cultural Studies; The Problem with the Text; The Institutional Articulation and Dissemination of Texts and Discourses; Two - Cultural Studies versus Post-Marxism; Two Texts of Cultural Studies; Stuart Hall's Closure versus Post-Marxist Discourse; The Political Disciplinary Object; Textual versus Discourse Analysis; Cultural Studies versus Political Analysis; The Object of the Subject; Deconstruction versus Post-Marxism; Three - Theory versus Practice; Practice versus Theory; Theory versus Practice; Post-Marxist Theory and Practice; Banal Pragmatism versus High Theory; The (Dis)Articulation of Theory and Practice; Knaves versus Fools; Investments and Institutions; Four - Post-Marxist Cultural Studies' Theory, Politics and Intervention; Relations and Effects; The Necessity of Articulation; The Necessity of Institution; The (Dis)Articulation of Post-Marxism and Politics; For a New Intervention; The Necessity of Deconstruction; Bibliography; Index.