03287nam 2200673Ia 450 991097390230332120200520144314.09786613070111978128307011912830701119780252091063025209106X(CKB)3390000000006623(OCoLC)785781232(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532385(SSID)ssj0000545082(PQKBManifestationID)11352819(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545082(PQKBWorkID)10553980(PQKB)11619599(MiAaPQ)EBC3413913(MdBmJHUP)muse23737(Au-PeEL)EBL3413913(CaPaEBR)ebr10532385(CaONFJC)MIL307011(OCoLC)923493531(Perlego)2383072(EXLCZ)99339000000000662320090305d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe task of cultural critique /Teresa L. Ebert1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20091 online resource (233 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780252034343 0252034341 9780252076268 0252076265 Includes bibliographical references and index.Anatomy of contemporary cultural critique. The spectral concrete ; The abstract of transformative critique ; Desiring surfaces -- The work of critique. Affective pedagogy and feminist critique ; Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels" ; Red love ; Globalization, the "multitude," and cynical critique.In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task of Cultural Critique maps the contours of an emerging materialist critique that contributes toward a critical social and cultural consciousness. Through groundbreaking analyses of cultural texts, Ebert questions the contemporary Derridian dogma that asserts "the future belongs to ghosts." Events-to-come are not spectral, she contends, but the material outcome of global class struggles. Not "hauntology" but history produces cultural practices and their conflictive representations--from sexuality, war, and consumption to democracy, torture, globalization, and absolute otherness. With close readings of texts from Proust and Balzac to "Chick Lit, " from Lukács, de Man, Deleuze, and Marx to Derrida, Žižek, Butler, Kollontai, and Agamben, the book opens up new directions for cultural critique today. CultureStudy and teachingHistoryCriticismHistoryCultureStudy and teachingHistory.CriticismHistory.306.07Ebert Teresa L.1951-1811146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973902303321The task of cultural critique4362836UNINA