Cultural Theory After the Contemporary [Paperback]

Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized agency, namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.Culture and its Outside Materiality and the Praxis of the Outside Labor and the Poetics of Capital Cultural Theory Now

Cultural Theory After the Contemporary is among the most important works in materialist cultural theory. Tumino offers a singular and incisive Marxist analysis of daily life that lays bare the complicity of the dominant theories with the culture of capitalism. Commanding in its scope and gravity - an indispensable work. - Steven Wexler, California State University, Northridge

STEPHEN TUMINO Adjunct Professor in English at the City University of New York-Kingsborough, USA. His articles have appeared in such journals as Textual Practice and Nature, Society, and Thought.