Dimensions
156 x 234 x 25mm
'Culture In Bits' addresses one of the key issues in the Humanities and Social Sciences today: the relation of cultural studies and poststructuralism. Approaching the topic with a broad and deep understanding of both cultural studies and poststructuralist writing, the book illuminates the relation of theory to empirical work, politics to scholarship and technology to the University.
Where is Cultural Studies today? Does it have anything left to say? Where is theory and where is politics? Certainly, cultural studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's preoccupation with the empirical and the theory revolutions of the 1980s and 90s.
Assessing the work of key theorists across the history of cultural studies - Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Meaghan Morris and Angela McRobbie - 'Culture In Bits' argues that the trend towards a more politicised practice is in fact not political enough; theory, and deconstruction in particular, can offer a more radical and a more political engagement.
Pinpointing the ambiguities that both constitute and disturb cultural studies and outlining a radical agenda for its future, Culture in Bits is vital reading for all interested in cultural practice and theory.
