University of Minnesota Press, 1997 Paper: 978-0-8166-2767-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2766-0 Library of Congress Classification HM101.C4213 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 306
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Opening the Possible
Giard,
Luce
Part I:
Exoticisms and Ruptures of Language
1.
The Revolution of the “Believable”
Against Unconsciousness
The Unbelievable
Emigration
The Refusal of Insignificance
Hidden Revolutions
Words and Representatives
An “Infinite Task”
2.
The Imaginary of the City
Fiction Given to the Eye?
Discourse of Advertising
The Body of Happiness
From the Exotic Body to Critical Speech
Having a Blast
3.
The Language of Violence
A Literature of Desertion
Power without Authority: Bureaucratic Tyranny
A Society of Eviction
The Practice of Blasphemy
Struggle, Taking Charge of Violence
Part II:
New Marginalisms
4.
Universities versus Popular Culture
From Selection to Production
A Rupture: Scientific Research and the Massification of Recruitment
Numbers, a Source of Heterogeneity
Cultural Production
Autonomy: A Lure
5.
Culture and the Schools
The Content of Teaching and the Pedagogical Relation
Academies of Knowledge Transformed into the Club Med?
The Distortions between Supply and Demand
Research, a “Political” Problem
A Critical School
A Multiplicity of Cultural Places
6.
Minorities
Political or Cultural Manifestos?
The Imperialism of Ethnological Knowledge
The Idiom of Autonomy
Part III:
Cultural Politics
7.
The Social Architecture of Knowledge
A Conception of Culture: The Elite and the Mass
“The Number Began to Live”
The Function of Knowledge in Consumer Society (Herbert Marcuse)