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[ecrea] Marxism and Culture Series

Tue Jan 11 13:04:11 GMT 2011



                                                 Marxism and Culture

                                        Series Preface (Pluto Press)

                                            Call for Book Proposals



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.


Books published in the series so far:


Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends  - Mike Wayne


Philosophizing the Everyday, The Philosophy of Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Studies - John Roberts


Marxism and the History of Art, from William Morris to the New Left - Andrew Hemmingway (ed)


Red Planets, Marxism and Science Fiction - Mark Bould & China Mieville


Dark Matter, Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture , Gregory Scholette


Magical Marxism, Subversive Politics and the Imagination, Andy Merrifield


Series Editors

Esther Leslie ((e.leslie /at/ bbk.ac.uk))

Mike Wayne ((michael.wayne /at/ brunel.ac.uk))


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