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This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. -Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections - lineages and problematics - that facilitate its use both by students new to the field andadvanced scholars and researchers -Explains key schools and movements clearly and succinctly, situating them in relation to broader developments in culture, society, and politics -Tackles issues that have shaped and energized the field since the Second World War, with discussion of familiar and under-theorized topics related to living and laboring, being and knowing, and agency and belonging 1980/1995-1997/2006/2012: Presses, Anthologies, Counter-Public Spheres 1976/1961/1990/1983: Other Foucaults; Incendiary Legacies; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort -- Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail -- Pretoria/Robben Island 1947-1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism ; Colonialism; Race; Decolonization; Postcolonialism; References; Chapter 8 Petrograd/Leningrad -- Havana -- Beijing 1917-1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice ; References; Chapter 9 Chile -- Seattle -- Cairo 1973-2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism ; Chile and New York City 1973-1975 Alternative Terms and Alternative Formulations: Queer World-BuildingThe Supplementarity of Affective Collectivity with Capitalism?; Notes; References; Chapter 13 Feminism; Feminist Theory and the Value of Materialism; Materialism and Feminist Praxis; Body: The Labor of Social Reproduction; Mind: Feminist Knowledge; Heart: The Value of Affect and Collective Action; Notes; References; Chapter 14 Gender and Queer Theory; Public Feelings: Affective Responses to Precarity; Rethinking Terms: Queer of Color Analyses and Precarity; After Sexuality?; Note; References Chiapas and Seattle 1994-1999Cairo and Greece 2008-Present; Addendum; Notes; References; Part II Problematics ; Section A: Living and Laboring; Chapter 10 Subjectivity; Subjectivity and Power: Marxist Lineages; From the Subject of Production to the Production of the Subject; Neoliberal Subjectivity; Notes; References; Chapter 11 Diaspora and Migration; Towards an Analytics of Diasporic Culture; Jalleh's Diasporic Culture; Diasporic Culture as a Culture of Capitalist Modernity; The Diasporic Condition; References; Chapter 12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities; The Critique of Community The Revenge of HistoryNotes; References; Chapter 4 Birmingham -- Urbana-Champaign 1964-1990; or, Cultural Studies; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Baltimore -- New Haven 1966-1983; or, Deconstruction ; Deconstruction, Without Limit... (Introduction); DerridAmerica (Phase I); "Boa-Deconstructors" (Phase II) ; Deconstruction, Engaged (Phase III); Momentous Inconclusions; References; Chapter 6 Paris -- Boston -- Berkeley -- the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949-1990; or, Gender and Sexuality; On the Times of Gender and Sexuality; 1979/1949/1989: Situating Consciousness Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Lineages; Chapter 1 Frankfurt -- New York -- San Diego 1924-1968; or, Critical Theory ; Frankfurt 1924-1935, The Welter of Method; New York 1935-1953, Life Subsumed; San Diego 1965-, Quandary of the Riot; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Vienna 1899 -- Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Paris 1955-1968; or, Structuralism; Foundations; Structure; Theoretical Anti-Humanism ; The Scientific Turn; History as Structure without a Subject; The Split Subject; High Structuralism
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