Scenes From Postmodern Life

by Beatriz Sarlo

Overview

In this bracing book. Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing.

As postmodernity and late capitalism reinvent culture and society, social and cultural critique must also be reinvented -- and in Scenes from Postmodern Life Sarlo aims to show how this might be done. Her readings of cultural practices such as television zapping, playing video games, or shopping at the mall; her vignettes of traditional intellectuals and practitioners of high art; her discussions of popular culture and the dissolution of social identities: these, as well as Sarlo's own writerly stance, go a considerable way toward developing the role of thinking in global times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816630097
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	11/07/2001
Series:	Cultural Studies of the Americas , #7
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Translator's Introduction: In Argentina	vii
	Questions	3
1.	Abundance and Poverty	9
2.	The Waking Dream	44
3.	Popular Cultures, Old and New	86
4.	The Place of Art	107
5.	Intellectuals	140
	Bibliography	163