From Hegel to Madonna

From Hegel to MadonnaMoves from the discourses of dialectical negation to cultural populist affirmationthat is, from Hegel to Madonna Studiesin order to envision a mode of critique that can persuasively describe and explain the cultural contradictions of late capitalism. 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

Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority

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and the impact of his legacy on today’s understanding and appreciation of ancient Egypt

these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today

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reveals the hidden histories of the world’s highest mountain