[ecrea] Marxism and Culture Series

>                                                  Marxism and Culture
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>                                         Series Preface (Pluto Press)
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>                                             Call for Book Proposals
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> The Marxism and Culture series aims to revive, 
> renew and develop Marxism as an emancipatory 
> tool for analyzing media and cultural practices 
> within capitalism and class society. During the 
> 1990s Marxism got bashed; it was especially 
> easily mocked once its â??actually existingâ?? 
> socialist version was toppled with the fall of 
> the Berlin Wall. Postmodernism made Marxism a 
> dirty word, and class struggle a dirty thought 
> and even dirtier deed. But those days that 
> consigned Marxism to history themselves now seem 
> historical. The crash of neo-liberalism in a now 
> global economy has trashed many so-called 
> certainties about the superiority of capitalism. 
> A new spirit of critical questioning is emergent 
> in the context of a crisis that is political, 
> economic, social, cultural and ecological.
>
>  Marxism, however critically its inheritance is 
> viewed, cannot be overlooked by the increasing 
> numbers who make efforts to provide an analysis 
> and a consequent practice. Our series is 
> dedicated to exploring both Marxist 
> methodologies and the role of culture in this 
> situation, from the mass media to the 
> avant-garde.  Culture is the contested terrain 
> on which we imagine alternative models of 
> social being and critically decode the ways we 
> remain tied, by habits and perspectives, values 
> and emotions, to the horizon of capital.  We 
> welcome proposals that contribute to the 
> understanding of our urgent situation through the prism of culture.
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>
> Books published in the series so far:
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> Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends  - Mike Wayne
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> Philosophizing the Everyday, The Philosophy of 
> Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Studies - John Roberts
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> Marxism and the History of Art, from William 
> Morris to the New Left  - Andrew Hemmingway (ed)
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> Red Planets, Marxism and Science Fiction - Mark Bould & China Mieville
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> Dark Matter, Art and Politics in the Age of 
> Enterprise Culture , Gregory Scholette
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> Magical Marxism, Subversive Politics and the Imagination, Andy Merrifield
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> Series Editors
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> Esther Leslie ((e.leslie /at/ bbk.ac.uk))
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> Mike Wayne ((michael.wayne /at/ brunel.ac.uk))

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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