In this book, an international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and
Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice
✍ Scribed by Begüm Özden Fırat, Sarah De Mul, Sonja van Wichelen (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 202
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Commitment and Complicity....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Commitment as a Nonperformative....Pages 23-44
Commitment or Commitment-Kitsch? Rethinking the ‘Woman Question’, Agency, and Feminist Politics....Pages 45-63
‘Human’ in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft ....Pages 64-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge....Pages 81-101
Empty Versatility and the Art of the Circular Reading....Pages 102-119
The Commitment to Face....Pages 120-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Necessity of ‘Terror’....Pages 139-153
Putting Complicity to Work for Accountability: An Australian Case Study....Pages 154-166
Layers of Labor in Cultural Production: Notes on Aesthetics and Commitment from the Transparent Factory....Pages 167-181
The Politics of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’....Pages 182-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-197
✦ Subjects
Arts; Intellectual Studies; Political Communication; Media Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Theory
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