"Universal Abandon "was first published in 1989. Minnesota
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In recent years, the debate about postmodernism has become a
full-blown, global discussion about the nature and future of
society: it has challenged and redefined the cultural and sexual
politics of the last two decades, and is increasingly shaping
tomorrow's agenda. Postmodernist culture is a medium in which we
all live, no matter how unevenly its effects are felt across the
jagged spectrum of color, gender, class, sexual, orientation,
region, and nationality. But it is also a culture that proclaims
its abandonment of the universalist foundations of Enlightenment
thought in the West. At a time when interests can no longer be
universalized, the question arises: Whose interests are served by
this "universal abandon"?
"Universal Abandon" is the first volume in a new series entitled
Cultural Politics, edited by the Social Text collective. This
collection tackles a wider range of cultural and political issues
than are usually addressed in the debates about
postmodernism--color, ethnicity, and neocolonialism; feminism and
sexual difference; popular culture and the question of everyday
life--as well as some political and philosophical matters that have
long been central to the Western tradition. Together, the
contributors provide no consensus about the politics of
postmodernism; they insist, rather, that "universal abandon?"
remain a question and not an answer.
The contributors: Anders Stephanson, Chantal Mouffe, Stanley
Aronowitz, Ernesto Laclau, Nancy Fraser, Linda Nicholson, Meaghan
Morris, Paul Smith, Laura Kipnis, Lawrence Grossberg, Abigail
Solomon-Godeau, George Yudice, Jacqueline Rose, and Hal Foster.
Andrew Ross teaches English at Princeton University and is the
author of "The Failure of Modernism."
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