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New Books in Critical Theory

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Tony Bennett, “Making Culture, Changing Society” (Routledge, 2013)

2013/11/13

In his new book Making Culture, Changing Society (Routledge, 2013), Professor Tony Bennett aims to

Greg Hainge, “Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)

2013/10/19

What is noise? In his new book Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise (Bloomsbury Academic, 201

David Beer, “Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation” (Palgrave, 2013)

2013/9/21

Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation (Palgrave, 2013) is written by David Beer

Sarah Banet-Weiser, “Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture” (NYU Press, 2013)

2013/8/27

In Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (NYU Press, 2013), Sarah Banet-Weiser

Brian Michael Goss, “Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century” (Peter Lang, 2013)

2013/7/22

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of m

Stacy Alaimo, “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self” (Indiana UP, 2010)

2013/7/8

In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press,

Michael Serazio, “Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing” (NYU Press, 2013)

2013/7/3

“Power through freedom.” Michael Serazio‘s Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing (NYU P

Dominic Pettman, “Human Error” (UMinnesota, 2011)/”Look at the Bunny” (Zero Books, 2013)

2013/5/31

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if

Amir Eshel, “Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

2013/1/22

In his very recent work, Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past(University of

Nicholas De Villiers, “Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)

2013/1/11

In his book, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (University of M

Avner Baz, “When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy” (Harvard University Press, 2012)

2012/10/31

In When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2

Ulrich Plass, “Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno’s Notes to Literature” (Routledge, 2007)

2012/9/25

In Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno’s Notes to Literature (Routledge, 2007), Ulrich Plass

J. Hillis Miller, “The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

2012/8/23

In his recent book, The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz (University o

Wendy Steiner, “The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art” (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

2012/7/16

As the last of what Wendy Steiner refers to as “a loose trilogy” with her earlier works, The Scandal

Stephen Collier, “Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics” (Princeton UP, 2011)

2012/6/20

Pipes matter. That’s right: pipes. Anyone who has spent time in Russia knows that the hulkish cylind

Scott Morgensen, “Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

2012/2/14

Here’s a study-guide prepared to accompany the interview. For as much as recent decades have witness