Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its past historical precedents, conflicts, and issues. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural anthropology and ethnic studies in both objective and methodology. Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender.
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Oślizgłe macki, wiadome siły. Historia Ameryki w teoriach spiskowych
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
Mythologies
Orientalism
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Society of the Spectacle
Between the World and Me
The Location of Culture
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Culture and Imperialism
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Abhijit Naskar
“ Parasitus Politicas (Sonnet 2846) Law is not justice, justice is often illegal. Government is not the culture, culture lives outside the government. Religion is not holiness, holiness begins outside religion. Passport is not the person, person begins outside the passport. Superstition is not spirituality, spirituality unfolds on earth not in the sky. Mythology is not history, history begins outside fairy story. Never let Parasitus Politicas sell you drugs dressed in tradition - politicians m ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

Abhijit Naskar
“ Language is the highway to culture. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

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