
Deconstructing Popular Culture
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraphs
- User Guide
- Introduction: Deconstructing 'the Popular'
- Deconstructing . . .
- . . . the Popular . . .
- . . . by cultural studies
- PART I Inversion
- 1 Help Me If You Can, I'm Feeling Down: Deconstructing Self-Help
- Let me tell you a story, a story that must (not) be shared
- A play within a play
- A play within a play within a play
- Just get the message, right
- What would you do if you weren't afraid?
- What's the message again? Beats me
- So who moved the cheese?
- 2 Can I Help You? Deconstructing(,)Words and Music
- My inside is outside
- Writing to read you
- Writing to text you
- Reading to rewrite you
- I might never reach you
- I only want to teach you . about you
- But that's not you
- The right side's on the left side
- Meaning(,) what?
- But that's not you
- What's a Wonderwall anyway?
- You're my wonderwall
- 3 Ghost Dog: The Deconstruction of Identity
- I want to transform into a Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Enter the fantasy
- The way of identifying
- The way of hybridity
- Cultural identity or cross-cultural hybridity
- What is really communicated by the simulation?
- What is there?
- 4 Street-fetishism: Popular Politics and Deconstruction
- Popular action in deconstruction
- Street-fetishism
- The long and winding road
- De-class-ifying politics
- (The) Deconstructing revolution
- PART II Displacement
- 5 Counter-Culture versus Counter-Culture
- Let's get retarded
- Free your inner soul and break away from tradition
- Disconnect from all intellect, collect the rhythm effect
- Rage against the machine
- Resistance is useless
- Slavoj Zizek's counter-countercultural critique
- The inauthentic relative
- Of politics and/of popular culture
- 6 Other-Wise Popular
- The Taoist ethic and the spirit of global capitalism
- The way of the supplement
- The Tao of hegemony
- The way of changeless change: Zizek's limit problem
- The Tao of holding the place
- 7 McDeconstruction, the Popular: Deconstructing 'Deconstructing'
- The popular response to the death of the guardian
- Popular hate objects, and their hate objects
- McDeconstruction, embarrassment and studying popular culture
- Nerds ? Us
- 8 Alterdisciplinarity: Deconstructing Popular Cultural Studies
- The critique of critique
- The alterdisciplinary theory of theory
- The vanishing intervener
- The end of the intervention
- Retheorizing political critique
- Altering alterdisciplinarity
- Altering conclusions
- Afterword: (An Incomplete) Glossary of (Impossible) Terms
- Notes
- References
- Index
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