Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present /

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the tot...

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Main Author: Beckman, Frida (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Culture, control, critique. Cultural critique from the Frankfurt School until today -- Formalism, allegory, totality. Allegory and representation -- Allegory and the present -- Space, allegory, control. Spatial preoccupations -- Celebrating ruins: The drowned world, The drought, The crystal world -- Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise -- Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come -- Totalities, allegories and revolutions -- Cultural critique and form -- Time, allegory, control. Timely preoccupations -- In and out of time: "Chronopolis" and in time -- Cultural critique and form -- Vision, allegory, control. Visual preoccupations -- bread and circuses: The hunger games -- Cultural critique and form -- Conclusion. 
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