Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century. (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries)

Questions Of Cultural Representation And Contestation, Central To Political And Ethical Thinking After The So-called 'cultural Turn' Of Recent Decades, Have If Anything Intensified In A Twenty-first Century Of New Media, Globalization, Migration, And Ever Renewed Struggles Over Identity, Memory, And Cultural Performance. At The Same Time, Theoretical Debate Is Increasingly Marked By A Concern To Retrieve A Properly Political Sphere Of Action As Such. The Essays Collected In This Interdisciplinary Volume Aim To Break New Ground By Exploring The Critical Space Between The Apparently Enduring Political Vitality Of Cultural Representation And Contestation Today, On The One Hand, And The Possible Limits Of A 'cultural' Politics, On The Other. Combining Concrete Researches And Theoretical Reflection, And Including A Final Chapter Exploring The Issues Raised By The Essays, This Volume Will Be Of Interest To Those In The Disciplines Of Cultural Studies, Sociology, Political Philosophy And Ethics. Introduction / Ching-yu Lin And John Mcsweeney -- Pt. 1 Representation, Media, Politics -- More Than Just A Laugh: Assessing The Politics Of Camp In The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert / Ann-marie Cook -- Actuvirtuality In The Internet-mediated Political Public Sphere / Ejvind Hansen -- Ideology In Media Language: Hegemonic Discourse Or Multiple Discourse? / Ewa Glapka -- Pt. Ii Culture, Performance, Resistance -- Taiwanese Youth, Identity And Tai-ke Culture: Resistance And The Performance Of Identity / Ching-yu Lin -- Enchantment And Disenchantment: Indigenous Australian Cultural Festival And An Ethics Of Uncertainty / Lisa Slater -- Accomodating Disadvataged Cultural Minorities / Baldwin Wong -- The Paradox Of Memory Studies: Studying A Praxis From Within / Fiona Schouten -- The Social Ethics Of Modern Aesthetics / Pilar Damiao De Medeiros -- Pt. Iii Political And Ethical Thinking As Cultural Thinking -- From Rigidity To Receptivity : Articulating An Ethics Of Thinking Via Nietzsche And Adorno / Paolo A. Bolanos -- Culture And/or Politics? Ranciere, Foucault And The Problem Of Biopower / John Mcsweeney -- Some Remarks On The Depoliticising Relationship Between Ethics And Science In Contemporary Radical And Post-marxist Thought / Paul Reynolds -- Pt. Iv: Concluding Reflection -- The Global Nexus Of Culture, Representation And Politics: Towards Ethics / Paul Reynolds And John Mcsweeney. Edited By Ching-yu Lin And John Mcsweeney. Includes Bibliographical References. Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Introduction 8 PART I: Representation, Media, Politics 13 More Than Just a Laugh: Assessing The Politics of Camp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 14 Actuvirtuality in the Internet-Mediated Political Public Sphere 38 Ideology in Media Language: Hegemonic Discourse or Multiple Discourses? 58 PART II: Culture, Performance, Resistance 77 Taiwanese Youth, Identity and Tai-Ke Culture: Resistance and the Performance of Identity 78 Enchantment and Disenchantment: Indigenous Australian Cultural Festivals and an Ethics of Uncertainty 95 Accommodating Disadvantaged Cultural Minorities 116 The Paradox of Memory Studies: Studying a Praxis from Within 143 The Social Ethics of Modern Aesthetics 158 PART III: Political and Ethical Thinking as ‘Cultural’ Thinking 170 From Rigidity to Receptivity: Articulating an Ethics of Thinking via Nietzsche and Adorno 171 Culture and/or Politics? Rancière, Foucault and the Problem of Biopower 184 Some Remarks on the Depoliticising Relationship between Ethics and Science in Contemporary Radical and Post-Marxist Thought 205 PART IV: Concluding Reflections 234 The Global Nexus of Culture, Representation and Politics: Towards Ethics 235