Ben Agger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3630907 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ben Agger |
| NOMBRES | Ben |
| APELLIDO | Agger |
| FIRMA | BEN AGGER |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Vegans Who Run
Beyond Beltway and Bible Belt
My Telos
Slovene without a Passport
Getting to Ten
Cho, Not Che
Occupy Globalization
Time, Motion, Discipline
In this paper, we read college course syllabi as material objects that shed light on larger issues, specifically conflict between faculty and students. We explore the commodification of 'college labor' where degreed labor and credit hours are produced. Under these conditions, the syllabus becomes a labor contract detailing faculty expectations of students. Rather than merely introducing the course subject matter or providing only basic informatio…
Oversharing
Texting toward Utopia
This book examines the contemporary era where parents complain that children today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Internet, texting, and video games. Texting Toward Utopia presents the writings of todays children and develops the argument that this is actually a time of mass literary, in which young people write furiously, albeit often below the adult radar. Agger argues that where texting replaces textbooks, the writi…
Blockbuster Marxism
Thomas Piketty's critique of capitalism, Capital in the 21st Century (2014), is examined in light of earlier Marxist and neo-Marxist analyses. It is noted that Piketty's important main finding, that inequality has increased under capitalism, is not matched by his solution, the 'social state', which hinges on a tax on capital and is not a fundamental rethinking of capitalism. Alternative analyses of a global 'flash capitalism' are explored
Cultural Studies as Critical Theory
What is cultural studies? popular culture as serious business Marxist theories of culture the Frankfurt School's aesthetic politics the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies poststructuralism and postmodernism on culture feminist cultural studies needs, values and cultural criticism deprogramming the cult of cultural studies cultural studies as everyday life in the society of the spectacle.
A Critical Theory Of Public Life
This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements.
All that is Solid
This paper is a reflection on the publication practice of the journal Fast Capitalism, an open-source, electronic journal founded by Ben Agger and Timothy Luke in 2005. It also presents thoughts on writing, reading and publishing in postmodern capitalism
ITime
The smartphone changes everything, or so it seems. iPhones create iTime and fundamentally alter the boundaries between public and private and day and night. We are now online anytime/anywhere, requiring new theoretical understandings of time and place. This starts with the young, who are inseparable from their phones, and has now spread to their parents. Smartphones use us, bending us to their compulsive rhythms and demanding our attention. In a …
The Pulpless Generation
Young people today appear politically inactive. Is this so? The Obama phenomenon suggests otherwise. This article examines subpolitical or prepolitical activism on the part of the young-their politics conducted outside traditional political boundaries. I also read young people's frenetic text messaging, instant messaging and MySpacing as literary and even political activities worth considering. Young people have been off the social-science radar …
Political Sentences
Anti-intellectualism, an American failing, ridicules philosophical prose, postmodernism, even technical sociology. The celebration of ordinary language disqualifies extraordinary political projects and efforts. French- and German-inspired wordplay can be readily lampooned by outsiders who don't understand that Derrida was trying to liberate language in order to see and write the world in new ways. Derrida intended his neologisms to be utopian, op…
Does Postmodernism Make You Mad? Or, Did You Flunk Statistics?
Euros to America
Euros to America: The disciplining, deconstruction and diaspora of American social theory - 1
Keeping Good Time
Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism
The author argues that sociological writing needs to shift out of the positivist mode of the report of findings and become unashamedly literary. That is, it must confess its "authoriality," the fact that it has been written with perspective, passion, and political standpoint by an author. In this sense, sociology is science fiction-a way of making an argument using data and analysis. Much positivist sociological writing erases the author's finger…
Public Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Fast capitalism
Gender, Culture, and Power
Critical Theory and Postmodernity Postmodernism and the End of Politics 1: New French Theory Postmodernism and the End of Politics 2: Feminist Theory Producing Reproduction: The Logic of Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory Critical Theory and Everyday Life 1: Against Economism Critical Theory and Everyday Life 2: Desire, Discourse and Domination Bibliography Index
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism
This article examines the main theoretical contributions of critical theory, poststructuralism and postmodernism. It is argued that these three theories offer related perspectives on the shortcomings of positivism as well as new ways to theorize and study contemporary societies. Empirical and conceptual applications of these perspectives in sociological research are discussed. Some of these applications include work in the sociology of deviance, …
Introduction to Sociology
Critical Social Theories. An Introduction
Praised for its clarity and accessibility, this fully updated edition of Critical Social Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories today. Diverse perspectives are addressed from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. Written accessibly for students and faculty, the second edition includes new chapters on the need for a new public sociology in the post 9/11 era--one that moves b…
ITime
The smartphone changes everything, or so it seems. iPhones create iTime and fundamentally alter the boundaries between public and private and day and night. We are now online anytime/anywhere, requiring new theoretical understandings of time and place. This starts with the young, who are inseparable from their phones, and has now spread to their parents. Smartphones use us, bending us to their compulsive rhythms and demanding our attention. In a …
Sociology after Postmodernism
Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do. The contributors locate the identity of sociology `after' postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key…
Keeping Good Time
Marcuse & Habermas on New Science
Marx's meaning of materialism as well as the extent of Hegel's influence on his thought has been in the center of controversy among Marxists ever since the publication in 1923 of Lukács' History and Class Consciousness and Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy with the Frankfurt school, including Marcuse, embracing the Hegelian interpretation. The controversy has resurfaced within the Frankfurt school in Habermas' critique of Marcuse's concept of a "ne…
Public Sociology
Derrida for Sociology? A Comment on Fuchs and Ward
Fuchs and Ward's (1994) premise is that deconstruction can be mapped onto Kuhn's distinction between normal science and paradigmatic shifts, differentiating and versions of deconstruction. Owed to the work of Jacques Derrida (1973, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988), the radical version of deconstruction emerges from periods of scientific crisis, when a textual field is disorganized. In the context of crisis, everyone questions everything, even …
Do Books Write Authors? A Study of Disciplinary Hegemony
The recent issue of Teaching Sociology (October 1988), which was devoted to a discussion of sociology textbook publication, made interesting reading. I have just completed a book (Agger 1989b) about sociology textbooks as prisms through which to the mainstream discipline of sociology and thus I can relate my own findings to the issues raised in Teaching Sociology. Although there is a growing literature on sociology textbooks (Agger 1989b, pp. 374…
Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism
The author argues that sociological writing needs to shift out of the positivist mode of the report of findings and become unashamedly literary. That is, it must confess its "authoriality," the fact that it has been written with perspective, passion, and political standpoint by an author. In this sense, sociology is science fiction-a way of making an argument using data and analysis. Much positivist sociological writing erases the author's finger…
Work and authority in Marcuse and Habermas
Time, Motion, Discipline
In this paper, we read college course syllabi as material objects that shed light on larger issues, specifically conflict between faculty and students. We explore the commodification of 'college labor' where degreed labor and credit hours are produced. Under these conditions, the syllabus becomes a labor contract detailing faculty expectations of students. Rather than merely introducing the course subject matter or providing only basic informatio…
The Decline of Discourse
Marcuse's aesthetic politics
Social Problems through Conflict and Order
Invisible Politics
Marxism and Hegel
Lucio Colletti. Marxism and Hegel. Translated by Lawrence Garner. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1973. 283 pages. $15.75
Marcuse & Habermas on New Science
Marx's meaning of materialism as well as the extent of Hegel's influence on his thought has been in the center of controversy among Marxists ever since the publication in 1923 of Lukács' History and Class Consciousness and Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy with the Frankfurt school, including Marcuse, embracing the Hegelian interpretation. The controversy has resurfaced within the Frankfurt school in Habermas' critique of Marcuse's concept of a "ne…
The growing relevance of Marcuse's dialectic of individual and class
Work and authority in Marcuse and Habermas
Marcuse's Freudian Marxism
The dialectic of desire
Marxism 'or' the Frankfurt School
Social Problems through Conflict and Order
The Underside of High-Tech
Marcuse's aesthetic politics
Marcuse's ?one-dimensionality
Do Books Write Authors? A Study of Disciplinary Hegemony
The recent issue of Teaching Sociology (October 1988), which was devoted to a discussion of sociology textbook publication, made interesting reading. I have just completed a book (Agger 1989b) about sociology textbooks as prisms through which to the mainstream discipline of sociology and thus I can relate my own findings to the issues raised in Teaching Sociology. Although there is a growing literature on sociology textbooks (Agger 1989b, pp. 374…
Fast Capitalism
Reading Science
Approaches to Social Theory
Fast Capitalism
The micro-macro non-problem
The Decline of Discourse
Socio(onto)logy
Socio(onto)logy
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism
This article examines the main theoretical contributions of critical theory, poststructuralism and postmodernism. It is argued that these three theories offer related perspectives on the shortcomings of positivism as well as new ways to theorize and study contemporary societies. Empirical and conceptual applications of these perspectives in sociological research are discussed. Some of these applications include work in the sociology of deviance, …
The Discourse of Domination
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Undoing the Social
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