
Constellations of the Transnational
Modernity, Culture, Critique
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
181 pages
978-90-420-2119-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on 'culture' in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.
Reviews / Votes
"In principle, it ought to be possible to construct the model of totality (and a totality that is itself a processi) by beginning with any feature and eventually working our way through and around to all the others in a trajectory different from all the other possible ones and yet somehow still the same, or at least projecting and marking the contours of the same complex unrepresentable phenomenon." - Fredric Jameson, in: A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the PresentMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2119-8 (9789042021198)
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Persons
Sudeep Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam. His research at present focuses on postcolonial theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School and the politics of modernism. He has published on globalization and cultural identity, television and the auratic politics of Hindu nationalism, and sexuality and multiculturalism.
Content
Sudeep DASGUPTA: Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An Introduction
Joseph PUGLIESE: Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Identity Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum
Cornelia GRAEBNER: Here to Stay: The Performance of Accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay
Esther PEEREN; Carnival Politics and the Territory of the Streets
Deborah NOEL KAPLAN: Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in the Patriot Movement Discourse
Olga GERSHONSON: Politics of Identity and Critical Judgement: Gesher Theater in Israel
Bianca KAI ISAKI: Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West Identities
Sudeep DASGUPTA: Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Joseph PUGLIESE: Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Identity Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum
Cornelia GRAEBNER: Here to Stay: The Performance of Accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay
Esther PEEREN; Carnival Politics and the Territory of the Streets
Deborah NOEL KAPLAN: Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in the Patriot Movement Discourse
Olga GERSHONSON: Politics of Identity and Critical Judgement: Gesher Theater in Israel
Bianca KAI ISAKI: Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West Identities
Sudeep DASGUPTA: Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies
Notes on the Contributors
Index