From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism" (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism" (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism" (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

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Book Description
From Hegel to Madonna presents a genealogical survey of the discourses of negation and affirmation associated with the work of Hegel, Adorno, Deleuze, and Guattari; then, rotating from the philosophical to the political-economic axis, turns to the problem of a general economy of "commodity-fetishism." Drawing on the work of Marx and Freud, Miklitsch mobilizes a new, renewed understanding of "commodity fetishism"--what he calls the commodity-body-sign--in order to examine received notions of consumption and commodification. The aim is to envision a dialectical mode of critique, at once critical and affirmative, that can account for the cultural contradictions of late capitalism. The author also analyzes the phenomenon of Madonna Studies, reading the interest in the pop star as a sign of the academic times, a symptomatic figure not only of cultural studies in all its celebratory, cultural-populist excess but of a critical discourse responsive to postmodern culture in all its politically complex mutability.

About the Author
Robert Miklitsch is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University.

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