New Times : Making Sense of Critical/Cultural Theory in a Digital Age

McCarthy, Cameron (EDT); Greenhalgh-Spencer, Heather (EDT); Mejia, Robert (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1433112787 / ISBN 13: 9781433112782

Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Times : Making Sense of Critical/Cultural Theory in a Digital Age
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433112787
• ISBN 13: 9781433112782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The eighteen original essays in this collection, woven together, make a central claim: as a consequence of the new driving logics of globalization, transnationalism, and the digital age, all late-modern institutions and forms of association and affiliation are coalescing under the banner of new identities. These logics have unsettled the processes of the social integration of modern subjects into late-modern institutions. The modern subject is being remade and reproduced in a context in which the relations between government, society, the individual, and market forces have undergone profound transformations and reorganization. As such, critical/cultural theory is needed to address these transformations in a way that moves beyond dystopian or utopian frameworks, and instead point to the particularities that make this moment (un)livable. Hence, this book is divided into four sections in which contributors map these new, volatile developments across the domains of disciplinary history, technology, the body, and neoliberal programs of cultural and economic globalization.

About the Author

Cameron McCarthy is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer is a doctoral candidate in Education Policy and Gender and Women’ Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Robert Mejia is a doctoral candidate in Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.