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Subculture, Club Cultures and Post-Subcultures: Music/Social
Interactions?
Dan Laughey
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Texts examines a broad spectrum of contemporary culture from short
stories, autobiographies and lyrics, through The Matrix, Harry Potter,
and Big Brother, to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. An
excellent guide to ways of reading the contemporary world, this is
essential reading for anyone who ever wanted to know how to analyse a
text, whether it be a poster or a building complex, a political speech or a
photograph, an event like the Millennium or a website like Amazon.
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critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of
cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to
ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical
background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment;
and offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-
metaphysical or post-human culture.
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world. It examines power relations and alternative media, the economic
and cultural dimensions of globalisation, and the legal constraints on
communication and freedom of expression. The chapter closes with
a discussion of the nature and purpose of the social movements that
have arisen to challenge these forces as they are played out on the
Internet, and introduces topics such as electronic civil disobedience,
and communitarian and libertarian approaches to electronic intellectual
property.
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