Communication, Cultural Theory and Politics
This list represents a number of cultural and political theorists whose work is typically within, or
a combination of, a Cultural Studies, Marxist, or post-structuralist frameworks. Specifically, this
work emphasizes the production, reproduction, or transformation of social relations through
issues of culture, class, capitalism and the State.
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward an Investigation)."
Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Trans. Ben Brewster. New York:
Monthly Review Press, 2001. 85-126.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, 2006.
Aronowitz, Stanley. How Class Works: Power and Social Movement. New Haven: Yale
Univeristy Press, 2003.
Balibar, Etienne and Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities.
London: Verso, 1991.
Carey, James. "A Cultural Apporach to Communication." Carey, James. Communication as
Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009. 11-28.
Carey, James. "Overcoming Resistence to Cultural Studies." Carey, James. Communication as
Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009. 68-84.
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans.
Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press, 1987.
—. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane Robert
hurley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Deleuze, Gilles. Foucault. Trans. Seán Hand. Minneapolis: Univerisity of Minnesota Press,
1988.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books,
1995.
—. Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the Collége De France, 1977-1978. Trans.
Michel Senellart and Francois Ewald. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
—. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76. Ed. Mauro Bertani.
New York: Picador, 2003.
—. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collége De France, 1978-1979. Trans. Michel
Senellart. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
—. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Foucault, Michel. "Truth and Power." Foucault, Michel. The Essential Foucault: Selections from
Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984. Ed. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas S. Rose. New York:
New Press, 2003. 300-318.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2006.
Gibson-Graham, J.K., Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. Class and Its Others.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. New York:
International Publishers, 1971.
Grossberg, Lawrence. Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. Durham: Duke University Press,
2010.
—. "Cultural Studies Revisited and Revised." Grossberg, Lawrence. Bringing It All Back Home:
Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham : Duke University Press, 1997. 141-173.
—. "History, Politics, and Posmodernism: Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies." Grossberg,
Lawrence. Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1997. 174-194.
—. "Interpreting the 'Crisis' of Culture in Communication Theory (1979)." Grossberg, Lawrence.
Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham: Duke Univeristy Press,
1997. 35-48.
—. "Introduction: 'Birmingham' in America." Grossberg, Lawrence. Bringing It All Back Home.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 1-32.
—. "The Ideology of Communication: Poststructuralism and the Limits of Communication
(1982)." Grossberg, Lawrence: Essays on Cultural Studies. Bringing It All Back Home:
Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 49-69.
—. "Where is the 'America' in American Cultural Studies." Grossberg, Lawrence. Bringing It All
Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham : Duke University Press, 1997. 287-302.
Hall, Stuart. "Encoding/Decoding." The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. 3rd. New
York: Routledge, 2007. 477-487.
—. "Notes on 'Deconstructing the Popular'." People's History and Socialist Theory. Ed. Raplh
Samuel. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 227-240.
—. "The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities." October 53 (1990):
11-23.
—. "The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees." Hall, Stuart. Stuart Hall: Critical
Dialogues in Cultural Studies. Ed. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen. New York:
Routledge, 1996. 25-46.
Hall, Stuart. "The Rediscovery of 'Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Studies." Culture,
Society and the Media. Ed. M.Gurevitch et. al. New York: Methuen, 1982. 56-90.
Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke
University Press, 1991.
Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Social Strategy: Towards a Radical
Democratic Politics. 2nd. London: Verso, 2001.
Mattelart, Armand. The Invention of Communication. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1996.
Packer, Jeremy. "The Conditions of Media's Possibility: A Foucauldian Approach to Media
History." Media History and the Foundations of Media Studies. Blackwell, Forthcoming.
—. "What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications Media History."
Communication Review 13.1 (2010): 88-104.
Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham: Duke Univerisity Press, 2004.
Williams, Raymond. "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory." Williams, Raymond.
Problems in Materialism and Culture, Selected Essays. London: Verso and NLB, 1980. 3149.
—. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. New York: Columbia Univeristy Press, 1983.
—. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. New York: Routledge, 1974.
—. The Long Revolution. New York: Columbia Univeristy Press, 1961.
Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. The Postmodern Adventure : Science, Technology, and Cultural
Studies at the Third Millennium. New York: Guilford P, c2001. Print.