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Book SynopsisCritical political analysis of how Cultural Studies has used and abused Marxism, offering a close reading of Derrida and Negri.
Trade Review'Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know. He is among the finest Marxist polemicists writing today. There are none who can be as devastating in their critique of commodification' -- Amitava Kumar, Associate Professor, Penn State University
'John Hutnyk is a very fine thinker, a sharp analyst of what is wrong with the academy and a careful reader, at the same time, of those ideas he won't always go along with' -- Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare (South End Press)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cultural Studies as Capitalism
Part I: Clifford's Ethnographica
1. Clifford and Malinowski
2. Fort Ross Mystifications
Part II: derrida@marx.archive
3. Fever
4. Spectres
5. Struggles
Part III: Tales from Raj
6. On Empire
7. Difference and Opposition
8. The Chapatti Story
Part IV: Bataille's Wars: Surrealism, Marxism, Fascism
9. Librarian
10. Activist
11. Anthropologist
12. Provocateur
Conclusion: The Cultivation of Capital Studies
Notes
References
Index
