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Theoretical Times

Redhead, Steve
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781787146693
Publisert
2017-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Emerald Publishing Limited
Vekt
388 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Redhead, Steve

Biographical note

Steve Redhead is Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies, York University, Canada. He has published seventeen books including Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life, We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light, The Jean Baudrillard Reader, The Paul Virilio Reader and Paul Virilio: Theorist For An Accelerated Culture.

Theoretical Times

Redhead, Steve
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Redhead, Steve
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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Author Steve Redhead (cultural studies, Flinders University, Australia) writes the “Theoretical Times” blog. This book is based on the blog and on the author’s podcasts and video vodcasts. Redhead explores the ideas of theorists including Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Alain Badiou in light of the rise of the far-right and neoliberalism around the world. One chapter is devoted to the rise of Donald Trump. Combining ideas and frameworks from high theory, realism, popular culture, and global politics, Redhead seeks to counter the anti-intellectual and populist strains of today in new media and social media. He argues that we need a new politics of theory.

- Annotation ©2018, (protoview.com)

In Theoretical Times, Steve Redhead describes the post-crash economic, environmental, political and cultural condition we live in today. As the rise of the international right - Donald Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen - swarms the globe, a new global battle within the right is developing: the globalists and neo-liberals versus the economic nationalists and protectionists. What then are the prospects for a resurrected theoretical politics of the left? Theoretical Times considers the work of theorists such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, in this innovative reinvention of theory and the politics of theory. After the global financial crash the world is being hollowed out and we find ourselves in what Žižek calls a desperate state of hopelessness, the “new dark ages”. Accelerated culture sees us digitally entertaining ourselves to death but leaves us exhausted and frightened waiting for World War Three. Theoretical Times offers new theoretical resources as a way out of the quicksand.
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This book examines how theory and theorists have achieved a global audience as never before in the post-Global Financial Crisis era. This crisis and the rise of neo-right populism has brought about unprecedented interest in theory, which has become central to the political, economic, cultural and social reconstruction of the world.
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Introduction: Theory The Day After Tomorrow Chapter 1. Time For Theory  Chapter 2. Lust For Theory  Chapter 3. Undead Theory  Chapter 4. The Dialectical Game  Chapter 5. The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump  Chapter 6. Theory Will Tear Us Apart  Conclusion: Theory Complete, Complete Theory
Les mer
“We live in a unique era. On all sides grizzly problems are closing in. It's clear that what exists cannot continue indefinitely. How are we to make sense of this unique conjuncture? How can we intervene in the world to prevent catastrophe? According to Redhead, now is the time for high theory. Now is the time to dispense with dour empiricism and recommit to creative, ambitious and imaginative intellectualism. More and more students are waking up to the institutionalised blandness of the social sciences and seeking out the work of a new generation of theorists who offer startling accounts of our economy, culture and politics, and who dare to imagine what the future may hold. Redhead focuses on the work of Zizek, Virilio, Baudrillard and Badiou, and, in his account of these great theorists, he displays an admirable commitment to making difficult ideas comprehensible. This book is just what we need to come to terms with these theoretical times.” – Professor Simon Winlow, University of Teeside, UK
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Author Steve Redhead (cultural studies, Flinders University, Australia) writes the “Theoretical Times” blog. This book is based on the blog and on the author’s podcasts and video vodcasts. Redhead explores the ideas of theorists including Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Alain Badiou in light of the rise of the far-right and neoliberalism around the world. One chapter is devoted to the rise of Donald Trump. Combining ideas and frameworks from high theory, realism, popular culture, and global politics, Redhead seeks to counter the anti-intellectual and populist strains of today in new media and social media. He argues that we need a new politics of theory.

- Annotation ©2018, (protoview.com)

In Theoretical Times, Steve Redhead describes the post-crash economic, environmental, political and cultural condition we live in today. As the rise of the international right - Donald Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen - swarms the globe, a new global battle within the right is developing: the globalists and neo-liberals versus the economic nationalists and protectionists. What then are the prospects for a resurrected theoretical politics of the left? Theoretical Times considers the work of theorists such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, in this innovative reinvention of theory and the politics of theory. After the global financial crash the world is being hollowed out and we find ourselves in what Žižek calls a desperate state of hopelessness, the “new dark ages”. Accelerated culture sees us digitally entertaining ourselves to death but leaves us exhausted and frightened waiting for World War Three. Theoretical Times offers new theoretical resources as a way out of the quicksand.
Les mer
This book examines how theory and theorists have achieved a global audience as never before in the post-Global Financial Crisis era. This crisis and the rise of neo-right populism has brought about unprecedented interest in theory, which has become central to the political, economic, cultural and social reconstruction of the world.
Les mer
Introduction: Theory The Day After Tomorrow Chapter 1. Time For Theory  Chapter 2. Lust For Theory  Chapter 3. Undead Theory  Chapter 4. The Dialectical Game  Chapter 5. The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump  Chapter 6. Theory Will Tear Us Apart  Conclusion: Theory Complete, Complete Theory
Les mer
“We live in a unique era. On all sides grizzly problems are closing in. It's clear that what exists cannot continue indefinitely. How are we to make sense of this unique conjuncture? How can we intervene in the world to prevent catastrophe? According to Redhead, now is the time for high theory. Now is the time to dispense with dour empiricism and recommit to creative, ambitious and imaginative intellectualism. More and more students are waking up to the institutionalised blandness of the social sciences and seeking out the work of a new generation of theorists who offer startling accounts of our economy, culture and politics, and who dare to imagine what the future may hold. Redhead focuses on the work of Zizek, Virilio, Baudrillard and Badiou, and, in his account of these great theorists, he displays an admirable commitment to making difficult ideas comprehensible. This book is just what we need to come to terms with these theoretical times.” – Professor Simon Winlow, University of Teeside, UK
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781787146693
Publisert
2017-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Emerald Publishing Limited
Vekt
388 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Redhead, Steve

Biographical note

Steve Redhead is Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies, York University, Canada. He has published seventeen books including Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life, We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light, The Jean Baudrillard Reader, The Paul Virilio Reader and Paul Virilio: Theorist For An Accelerated Culture.

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