1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790723703321

Autore

Sherlock Steve <1958->

Titolo

The performativity of value : on the citability of cultural commodities / / Steve Sherlock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-6862-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/4

Soggetti

Value

Group identity

Commercial products

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; I: Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Value: Development of the Theoretical Approach; 1 Introduction; 2 Reported Speech and Citationality; II: The Performativity of Value: Description of the Contemporary U.S. Cultural Economy; 3 Citational Practices and the Performativity of Subcultural Values; 4 Citational Practices and the Performativity of Exchange Value; 5 The Marketing of Citational Resources; III: Toward a Poststructuralist Critique of the Commodification of Language in the U.S. Cultural Economy; 6 The Promise of Value; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Steve Sherlock's The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities explores how social identity is increasingly constructed through the citation of cultural commodities-a process that has become "performative" of the U.S. cultural economy. Sherlock extends the work of Butler, Derrida, and the Bakhtin Circle to describe how the regeneration of exchange value involves the continual re-commodification of language.