New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism

Part I. A Radical Critique of Academic Theory

1. Automodernity: Autonomy and Automation after Postmodernity
Robert Samuels

2. Henry Jenkins: Cultural Studies, New Media, and the Ends of the Modern University
Robert Samuels

3. After Frederic Jameson: A Practical Critique of Pure Theory and Postmodernity
Robert Samuels

4. The Political without Politics: Slavoj Zizek and the Psychoanalysis of Automodernity
Robert Samuels

Part II. The Psychopathology of Automodernity

5. On the Psychopathology of the New Right: From Jurassic Park to the Gendered Culture Wars
Robert Samuels

6. The Automodern University: The Universal Individual and the Backlash against Social Discourse
Robert Samuels

7. Grand Theft Automodernity: Globalizing Individualism and Cultural Nihilism from Eminem to The Matrix
Robert Samuels

Part III. Postmodern Education, Social Movements, and Politics

8. Postmodern Education and Social Ethics after Automodernity
Robert Samuels

9. Taking Back the Automodern University: Postmodern Progressive Social Movements and the Academic Class System
Robert Samuels

10. Beyond the Zizek-Laclau Debate: Coalition Politics and Academic Theory after Obama
Robert Samuels

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Education, general, Educational Psychology, Media Studies, International and Comparative Education