LEADER 03287nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910973902303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613070111 010 $a9781283070119 010 $a1283070111 010 $a9780252091063 010 $a025209106X 035 $a(CKB)3390000000006623 035 $a(OCoLC)785781232 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532385 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000545082 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11352819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545082 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553980 035 $a(PQKB)11619599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413913 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413913 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532385 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL307011 035 $a(OCoLC)923493531 035 $a(Perlego)2383072 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000006623 100 $a20090305d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe task of cultural critique /$fTeresa L. Ebert 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780252034343 311 08$a0252034341 311 08$a9780252076268 311 08$a0252076265 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAnatomy 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. 330 8 $aIn 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 Luka?cs, de Man, Deleuze, and Marx to Derrida, Z?iz?ek, Butler, Kollontai, and Agamben, the book opens up new directions for cultural critique today. 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 606 $aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching$xHistory. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory. 676 $a306.07 700 $aEbert$b Teresa L.$f1951-$01811146 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973902303321 996 $aThe task of cultural critique$94362836 997 $aUNINA