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An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy

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Deeply researched (with full footnotes and bibliography), carefully thought out, and eloquently argued, [States of Emergency] offer[s] a refreshing relief from the babble of mainstream social and political commentary, and a source of hopeful vision against the varied voices of apocalypse.

* The Ryder *

Table of Contents

Preface
I. Class Conflicts
1. Cultural Studies and Class War
2. "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
3. Tea Party Brewhaha
4. Shooters
5. What's the Matter with Mexico?
6. Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells
II. Postmodern Conditions
7. Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror
8. The State of Iraq
9. On the Postmodernity of Being Aboriginal—and Australian
10. McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots
11. Army Surplus: Notes on "Exterminism"
12. World Social Forum: Multitude versus Empire?
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 25/09/2013
      ISBN13: 9780253010193, 978-0253010193
      ISBN10: 0253010195
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy

      Trade Review

      Deeply researched (with full footnotes and bibliography), carefully thought out, and eloquently argued, [States of Emergency] offer[s] a refreshing relief from the babble of mainstream social and political commentary, and a source of hopeful vision against the varied voices of apocalypse.

      * The Ryder *

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      I. Class Conflicts
      1. Cultural Studies and Class War
      2. "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
      3. Tea Party Brewhaha
      4. Shooters
      5. What's the Matter with Mexico?
      6. Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells
      II. Postmodern Conditions
      7. Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror
      8. The State of Iraq
      9. On the Postmodernity of Being Aboriginal—and Australian
      10. McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots
      11. Army Surplus: Notes on "Exterminism"
      12. World Social Forum: Multitude versus Empire?
      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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