From Hegel to Madonna : towards a general economy of "commodity fetishism" /
Moves from the discourses of dialectical negation to cultural-populist affirmation -- that is, from Hegel to Madonna Studies -- in order to envision a mode of critique that can persuasively describe and explain the cultural contradictions of late capitalism.
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[1998]
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| Col·lecció: | SUNY series in postmodern culture
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Taula de continguts:
- Excursion: Triptik 1
- Introduction: From Adorno to the Clash 9
- "Into the Groove": Dance, Distraction, Reproduction 12
- The Body in Adorno, Adorno's Body 14
- The Body in Dance 16
- After Hegel: From Adorno to Barthes 18
- General Economics 20
- The Work of Affirmation 23
- Psycho-Marxism 25
- Vox Pop Theory 28
- Part 1 From Negation to Affirmation 37
- Working in and for the Negative: On Hegel's Dialectic 37
- Late Hegelianism: On Adorno's Negative Dialectics 40
- Affirming Affirmation: On Nietzsche and Deleuze and Guattari 49
- Transit: From Negation/Affirmation to Critical Affirmation 57
- Part 2 The Commodity-Body-Sign 61
- Turn: From "Affirmative Culture" to the Hysteria of Castration 61
- Freud, Marx, Baudrillard, or That "Surplus" Which Is Sign-Value 64
- Commodity-as-Art, Art-as-Commodity: Warhol's Coca-Cola Bottles, Shoes and Soup Cans 69
- Hard-Core Commodity Aesthetics: Warhol's Sticky Fingers and the Popular-Cultural Phallus 72
- Marx after Baudrillard: The Commodity-Body-Sign 78
- Consumption Redux: Cultural Populism, Consummativity, and the Consumptive "Beast of Burden" 81
- Marx avec Duchamp: Socialized Consumption and De-Commodification 85
- Return: Contradiction, Circulation, and the Production of Sign-Value 88
- Transit: (M)TV, the Art-Commodity in an Age of Electronic Reproduction 97
- Part 3 The Case of "Madonna Studies" 99
- Corpus Delicti: The Rise of Madonna Studies 99
- Madonna Overdrive: The Star Commodity-Body-Sign 107
- Body of Evidence: The Fatality of Madonna Studies 122.