- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Berg Publishers (1 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845202309
- ISBN-13: 978-1845202309
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 745,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book convincingly argues that cultural studies can only reinvigorate itself by connecting its arguments on culture to the politics of the great oppositional movement of the twenty-first century, the alter-globalisation or anti-capitalist movement. Essential reading for cultural studies thinkers and anyone interested in culture and anti-capitalism. Tim Jordan, Open University Gilbert takes us on an informative and well-signposted tour of the post-Second World War dialogue between the anticapitalist movement in popular politics and the investiture of cultural studies into interdisciplinary programmes and departments in UK universities. Terrell Carver (Bristol University) - THE
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What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century? Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left can help to provide, notably through the work of key radical thinkers, such as Ernesto Laclau, Stuart Hall, Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze and Judith Butler. Anticapitalism and Culture argues that there is a strong relationship between the radical tradition of cultural studies and the new political movements which try to resist corporate globalization. Indeed, the two need each other: whilst theory can shape and direct the huge diversity of anticapitalist activism, the energy and sheer political engagement of the anticapitalist movement can breathe new life into cultural studies.
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I thought quite well of this book until about three quarters of the way through. At this point, having analysed with intellectual acuity and verbal fluency a representative sample of postMarxist approaches to the conundrum of how to dismantle capitalism, Gilbert arrived at the part of the book where he has to come up with a proposed way forward, or at least summarise others' attempts in this area.
At this point he latched on to the myth, as he sees it, of pastoral England, claiming that it never really existed, and quoting as evidence a text by Georgina Boyne which doesn't show up either on Amazon or Google books. He seems to think that anything which occurred before the Industrial Revolution is so ancient that it can have no bearing on anything.
Having established that he then nevertheless uses the popularity of this myth to suggest that it be a basis for spinning a new revolutionary myth which could captivate the revolutionary classes in their bid to put up barricades.
I would have thought that after 13 years of New Labour we had all had enough of spin.
As I say Gilbert is bright and fluent but he is so caught up with his 57 varieties of Marxism that he ignores history - which Marx after all didn't.
Nevertheless a useful reference source if you want to know something about Gramsci, Adorno, Hardt and Negri etc etc without having to read them.
At this point he latched on to the myth, as he sees it, of pastoral England, claiming that it never really existed, and quoting as evidence a text by Georgina Boyne which doesn't show up either on Amazon or Google books. He seems to think that anything which occurred before the Industrial Revolution is so ancient that it can have no bearing on anything.
Having established that he then nevertheless uses the popularity of this myth to suggest that it be a basis for spinning a new revolutionary myth which could captivate the revolutionary classes in their bid to put up barricades.
I would have thought that after 13 years of New Labour we had all had enough of spin.
As I say Gilbert is bright and fluent but he is so caught up with his 57 varieties of Marxism that he ignores history - which Marx after all didn't.
Nevertheless a useful reference source if you want to know something about Gramsci, Adorno, Hardt and Negri etc etc without having to read them.
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