New media, cultural studies, and critical theory after postmodernism : automodernity from Zizek to Laclau /
"This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Psychoanalysis, education, and social transformation.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Auto-Modernity: Autonomy and Automation after Postmodernity * Henry Jenkins: Cultural Studies, New Media and the Ends of the Modern University * After Frederic Jameson: A Practical Critique of Pure Theory and Postmodernity * The Political without Politics: Slavoj Zizek and the Psychoanalysis of Automodernity * On the Psychopathology of the New Right: From Jurassic Park to the Gendered Culture Wars * The Automodern University: The Universal Individual and the Backlash Against Social Discourse * Grand Theft Automodernity: Globalizing Individualism and Cultural Nihilism from Eminem to The Matrix * Postmodern Education and Social Ethics after Automodernity * Taking Back the Automodern University: Postmodern Progressive Social Movements and the Academic Class System * Beyond The Zizek-Laclau Debate: Coalition Politics and Academic Theory after Obama Auto-Modernity: Autonomy and Automation after Postmodernity * Henry Jenkins: Cultural Studies, New Media and the Ends of the Modern University * After Frederic Jameson: A Practical Critique of Pure Theory and Postmodernity * The Political without Politics: Slavoj Zizek and the Psychoanalysis of Automodernity * On the Psychopathology of the New Right: From Jurassic Park to the Gendered Culture Wars * The Automodern University: The Universal Individual and the Backlash Against Social Discourse * Grand Theft Automodernity: Globalizing Individualism and Cultural Nihilism from Eminem to The Matrix * Postmodern Education and Social Ethics after Automodernity * Taking Back the Automodern University: Postmodern Progressive Social Movements and the Academic Class System * Beyond The Zizek-Laclau Debate: Coalition Politics and Academic Theory after Obama.