عنوان

New media, cultural studies, and critical theory after postmodernism :

0230619819

9780230619814

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New media, cultural studies, and critical theory after postmodernism :

[Book]

automodernity from Zizek to Laclau /

by Robert Samuels

1st ed

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2010

xi, 256 p. :

ill. ;

25 cm

Education, psychoanalysis, and social transformation

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index

Automodernity: Autonomy and Automation after Postmodernity -- Henry Jenkins: Cultural Studies, New Media and the Ends of the Modern University -- After Frederic Jameson: A Practical Critique of Pure Theory and Postmodernity -- The Political without Politics: Slavoj Zizek and the Psychoanalysis of Automodernity -- On the Psychopathology of the New Right: From Jurassic Park to the Gendered Culture Wars -- The Automodern University: The Universal Individual and the Backlash Against Social Discourse -- Grand Theft Automodernity: Globalizing Individualism and Cultural Nihilism from Eminem to The Matrix -- Postmodern Education and Social Ethics after Automodernity -- Taking Back the Automodern University: Postmodern Progressive Social Movements and the Academic Class System -- Beyond The Zizek-Laclau Debate: Coalition Politics and Academic Theory after Obama

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"This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity. Part of this rethinking entails stressing how the progressive political aspects of postmodernism need to be separated from the aesthetic consumption of differences in automoderntiy. Choosing culturally relevant studies of The Matrix, Grand Theft Auto, Eminem and Jurassic Park, he interprets these medias through the lens of eminent theorists like Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson, and Henry Jenkins. Ultimately, he argues that what defines postmodernity is the stress on social construction, secular humanism, and progressive social movements that challenge the universality and neutrality of modern reason"--Provided by publisher

"This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity. Part of this rethinking entails stressing how the progressive political aspects of postmodernism need to be separated from the aesthetic consumption of differences in automoderntiy. Choosing culturally relevant studies of The Matrix, Grand Theft Auto, Eminem and Jurassic Park, he interprets these medias through the lens of eminent theorists like Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson, and Henry Jenkins. Ultimately, he argues that what defines postmodernity is the stress on social construction, secular humanism, and progressive social movements that challenge the universality and neutrality of modern reason"--Provided by publisher

Civilization, Modern

Postmodernism

Psychoanalysis and culture

Samuels, Robert,1961-

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