Class in Culture

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"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture, the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology, consumption, globalization, and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents The Public Theorist (a preface) Acknowledgments Part 1 All That Is Cultural Is Real—All That Is Real Is Cultural 1 Getting Class Out of Culture 2 Class Binaries and the Rise of Private Property Part 2 Tracing Class 3 Class Is 4 Abu Ghraib and Class Erotics 5 Class and 9/11 6 Eating Class 7 The Class Politics of “Values” and Stem-Cell Funding 8 Abortion Is a Class Matter 9 E-Education as a Class Technology 10 Gender after Class 11 The Class Logic of A Beautiful Mind Part 3 Class Ecstasies of the Culture of Capital 12 A “Potlatch of Signs”—Burning, Consuming, Wasting Bibliography Index About the Authors