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This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary
relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukacs's
concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are
viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the
spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers
in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often
forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore,
Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance
of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and
reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital
role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.
What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us
initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters
for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers
Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both.
Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what
Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it.
The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome,
Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century
Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer
masculinities in European popular culture, queer national
identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What
these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of
the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what
is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue
to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.
Jacques Ranciere's work is increasingly central to several debates
across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a
question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the
relationship between the "politics of aesthetics" and the
"aesthetics of politics"? Specifically, the book explores the
implications of Ranciere's rethinking of the relationship of
aesthetic to political democracy from a wide range of critical
perspectives. Distributions of the Sensible contains original
essays by leading scholars on topics such as Ranciere's relation to
political theory, critical theory, philosophical aesthetics, and
film. The book concludes with a new essay by Ranciere himself that
reconsiders the practice of theory between aesthetics and politics.
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