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Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies
Theory, Politics and Intervention
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Cultural Studies claims to be both practical and political, while Post-Marxist theory attempts to construct a political strategy and claims to answer the needs and demands associated with approaching the political - the relationship between the two disciplines is volatile and contestable. This book is original in its working through of this contestation and in showing how it impacts upon the institutional political terrain. It is argued that such relations, and the lessons to be learnt from their examination, are of great ethical and political relevance, shedding light on the conflicted character of contemporary political practice. Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism are exposed to the forces of their own, and the other's, founding declarations, methodologies, orientations, intentions, practices, protocols and procedures, showing the ethical and political consequences of overlapping but antagonistic 'knowledges'. It is argued that that Post-Marxism should become more central to Cultural Studies, while acknowledging that this is not without ethical and political dangers.
Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory. It argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project -- that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as having a developed theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be both practical and political. Bowman examines these intertwined, overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of intervention: what is the intervention of post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes? Through considerations of key aspects of Cultural Studies and cultural theory, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies argues that the very thing that is fundamental to both of these 'politicised' approaches -- the quest to establish a theory of intervention, and to relate this to a practice -- actually remains frustrated and unrealised as a direct result of the way this has been approached. Because of this stalemate, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies proposes a new theory of pragmatic intervention -- one that is derived from Derridean deconstruction, post-Marxism and Cultural Studies, and which will be of importance and value for politicised academics and intellectuals working in all areas of political and Cultural Studies. Key Features An innovative take on the disciplines of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism with a clear account of what Cultural Studies and post-Marxism are and why they are important. Offers explanations, accounts and critiques of key figures of Cultural Studies and post-Marxism, such as Butler, Derrida, Hall, Laclau, Mowitt, Rorty and Zizek. Draws out the similarities and clarifies the significance of the differences between the approaches and develops a new perspective on the theory and practice of intervention. Shows how, by seeing the links and differences between the approaches, both post-Marxism and Cultural Studies can be reorientated in order to have positive results in the political world.
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