1. Preface to a 'Contribution to the critique of political economy' / Karl Marx (1859) -- 2. A note on the unconscious in psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud (1912) -- 3. Linguistic value / Ferdinand de Saussure (1916) -- 4. Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere (1929) -- 5. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin (1936) -- 6. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience / Jacques Lacan (1949) -- 7. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon (1952) -- 8. Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams (1958) -- 9. The social text / Henri Lefebvre (1961) -- 10. The burden of history / Hayden White (1966) -- 11. The death of the author / Roland Barthes (1968) -- 12. Differance / Jacques Derrida (1968) -- 13. Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau (1974) -- 14. What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1975) -- 15. Panopticism / Michel Foucault (1975) -- 16. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey (1975) -- 17. Introduction to 'Orientalism' / Edward Said (1978) -- 18. Encoding/decoding / Stuart Hall (1980) -- 19. Approaching abjection / Julia Kristeva (1980) -- 20. Simulacra and science fiction / Jean Baudrillard (1981) -- 21. Answer to the question: What is the postmodern? / Jean-François Lyotard (1982) -- 22. Thinking sex: notes towards a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle Rubin (1984) -- 23. A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna J. Haraway (1985) -- 24. How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- 25. Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler (1991) -- 26. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1991) -- 27. Introduction to 'Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life' / Giorgio Agamben (1995) -- 28. What does queer theory teach us about x? / Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (1995) -- 29. Who owns "human nature"? / Marjorie Garber (2003).
Summary:
Brings together 29 key pieces that have shaped the field of critical and cultural theory. This title includes topics such as: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, class, culture, everyday life, literature, psychoanalysis, technology, power, and visuality.
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