Post-Marxism Versus Cultural StudiesTheory, Politics and Intervention

Abstract

This book is an exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory, arguing that although Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project: that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as ‘having’ a developed theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be both practical and political. The author examines these intertwined, overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of ‘intervention’: what is the intervention of Post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes? Through considerations of key aspects of Cultural Studies and cultural theory, the book argues that the very thing which is fundamental to both of these ‘politicised’ approaches – the quest to establish a theory of intervention and to relate this to a practice – actually remains frustrated and unrealised as a direct result of the way this has been approached. Because of this stalemate, it proposes a new theory of pragmatic intervention – one that is derived from Derridean deconstruction, post-Marxism and Cultural Studies, and which will be of importance and value for politicised academics and intellectuals working in all areas of political and Cultural Studies.

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