After Theory / / Thomas Docherty.

This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory – the intellectual and his or her knowledge – has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effectiv...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1997
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Postmodern Theory : POTH
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • I Getting Going
  • 1 Postmodernism
  • II Excess and Extravagance
  • 2 Theory, Enlightenment, Violence
  • 3 Photography as Postmodern Cartography
  • III Clews and Webs
  • 4 Representing Postmodernism:
  • 5 Postmodern (Dis)Simulation: Tauromachia and the Struggle for Europe
  • IV Aural Labyrinth
  • 6 Listening: Poisons in the Ear
  • 7 Deterritorialisation: Ending Culture
  • 8 'List, list, 0 list ...'
  • V Conclusion: Going On
  • 9 Postmarxism
  • Notes
  • Index