Product Description: Common Ground is an innovative exploration of the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics...read more

Product Description: What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions...read more

Product Description: A través de la música disco, hip hop, house, techno, drumnbass y garage, este libro describe el escenario de la música dance, en el transcurso de los últimos veinticinco años, a ambos lados del Atlántico. La historia de las ideas sobre la música y el baile en la cultura occidental, así como sus distintas formas de producció n y recepción, son la base para que los autores analicen la importancia de la cultura dance a partir de los años noventa...read more

Product Description: Since the election of a New Labour government, the cultural domain has been politically charged like never before. Official manifestos have been published and public projects have proliferated, signalling a level of ideological attention to culture unprecedented in democratic societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.

Product Description: Exploring the cultural impact of Princess Diana's death, this journal examines the lessons it offers about the place of celebrity, loss and mourning, authority, and legitimacy in popular consciousness, particularly when viewed against the political horizon of new Labour's 1997 electoral victory...read more