Michael Denning
Biographic Data
| ID | 101936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Denning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Denning |
| SIGNATURE | DENNING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Décoloniser l’oreille: La révolution culturelle des musiques vernaculaires phonographiques
Dans ce chapitre de son ouvrage Noise Uprising , Michael Denning creuse l’interprétation du phénomène qu’il a exploré dans les précédents – l’explosion du marché des disques vernaculaires dans les ports coloniaux, après l’avènement de l’enregistrement électrique dans la seconde moitié des années 1920. Ces nombreuses musiques ne furent que rarement politiquement engagées, et furent souvent dédaignées par les intellectuels progressistes et les prem…
Everyone a Legislator
What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics? Often taken to be a theory of the party as a ‘modern prince’ derived from Machiavelli, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? Michael Denning argues that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing as a premonitory form of democratic legislation
Cantologies
Cantology names an approach to the songish impulses that are a ubiquitous aspect of human cultures. It aims to divert our attention from the more restricted objects of musicological and ethnomusicological scrutiny by discerning song formations, conditions of possibility that define experiences of society and history along songish lines. These formations, local phenomena in cantology's broad purview, emerge from the interactions of levels of cultu…
Impeachment as a Social Form
How to account for the recurrent forms of populism, from Bonaparte to Trump? Components of a theory in Marx’s account of variant ‘lesser’ modes of exploitation—rent, tax, interest—and their necessary forms of appearance
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
International audience
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
Design and Discontent
Michael Denning on Nikil Saval, Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace. Transitions from counting-house to typing-pool to playpen, as capital’s designers sought to contain the discontents of labour
"Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, "Spaces and Times of Occupation
Occupying Occupations
The occupation of one's place of work has long been a central figure of labor and livelihood movements: though instances of workplace occupation are relatively rare and their durations brief, they have had a disproportionate imaginative impact. This essay considers the imaginative lineaments of workplace occupations—from the factory occupations of 1917–19 to the worker occupations of the Great Recession after 2008—focusing on the ways they have f…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Wageless Life
Afterword: Reconsidering the Significance of the Popular Front
Reflections on the meaning and legacy of the Great Depression of the 1930s have returned to public discourse in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. The Rethinking Marxism symposium on the Popular Front can be seen as part of this reflection, and this response to the symposium offers a brief overview of the ways the political and cultural insurgencies of the Great Depression have been understood by left militants and intellectuals from the 19…
Representing Global Labor
Research Article| September 01 2007 Representing Global Labor Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; Representing Global Labor. Social Text 1 September 2007; 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-00…
Globalization in cultural studies: Process and epoch
Globalization has quickly become a ubiquitous term; it names a process, an epoch, a discourse, a promise, a threat, a way of looking at ‘the world’. It also names a new kind of ‘inter-discipline’, a new protocol of writing and teaching in the humanities and social science. The article charts the emergence of globalization in cultural studies: first, by sketching the lineaments of globalization discourse as it appears in three major anthologies of…
The cultural front: The laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Michael Denning. (New York: Verso, 1996. xx, 556 pp. $29.00, ISBN 1-85984-815-X.) Get access Michael Rogin Michael Rogin University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952690…
The Cartoonists' Front
Research Article| January 01 1993 The Cartoonists’ Front Holly Allen; Holly Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 89–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Holly Allen, Michael Denning; T…
The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies
Research Article| October 01 1992 The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 21–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-54-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies. Radical History Review 1 October 1992; 1…
The End of Mass Culture
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The Ends of Ending Mass Culture
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Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
Journal Article Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America. By Michael Denning. (London: Verso, 1987. xi + 259 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $13.95.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908688 Published:…
Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury
Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Journal Article Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1986, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/22.1.1 Published: 01 October 1986
Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman
Research Article| October 01 1986 Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1986-36-110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman. Radical History Rev…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
The Special American Conditions: Marxism and American Studies
In a limited sense, this is a book; in many senses, it is unrecognizably Marxist. For American intellectuals, pro and contra Marx, this is probably as it should be. While it may come close to impossible to think about progressive change without engaging Marxist categories, one of the lessons to be drawn from Kenneth Burke's career is that an American (self-reliant) Marxism is fundamentally an absurd proposition. The active critical soul in Americ…
The cultural front: The laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century
Wageless Life
The End of Mass Culture
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Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
Representing Global Labor
Research Article| September 01 2007 Representing Global Labor Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; Representing Global Labor. Social Text 1 September 2007; 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-00…
Globalization in cultural studies: Process and epoch
Globalization has quickly become a ubiquitous term; it names a process, an epoch, a discourse, a promise, a threat, a way of looking at ‘the world’. It also names a new kind of ‘inter-discipline’, a new protocol of writing and teaching in the humanities and social science. The article charts the emergence of globalization in cultural studies: first, by sketching the lineaments of globalization discourse as it appears in three major anthologies of…
The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies
Research Article| October 01 1992 The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 21–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-54-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies. Radical History Review 1 October 1992; 1…
Everyone a Legislator
What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics? Often taken to be a theory of the party as a ‘modern prince’ derived from Machiavelli, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? Michael Denning argues that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing as a premonitory form of democratic legislation
Cantologies
Cantology names an approach to the songish impulses that are a ubiquitous aspect of human cultures. It aims to divert our attention from the more restricted objects of musicological and ethnomusicological scrutiny by discerning song formations, conditions of possibility that define experiences of society and history along songish lines. These formations, local phenomena in cantology's broad purview, emerge from the interactions of levels of cultu…
Occupying Occupations
The occupation of one's place of work has long been a central figure of labor and livelihood movements: though instances of workplace occupation are relatively rare and their durations brief, they have had a disproportionate imaginative impact. This essay considers the imaginative lineaments of workplace occupations—from the factory occupations of 1917–19 to the worker occupations of the Great Recession after 2008—focusing on the ways they have f…
Afterword: Reconsidering the Significance of the Popular Front
Reflections on the meaning and legacy of the Great Depression of the 1930s have returned to public discourse in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. The Rethinking Marxism symposium on the Popular Front can be seen as part of this reflection, and this response to the symposium offers a brief overview of the ways the political and cultural insurgencies of the Great Depression have been understood by left militants and intellectuals from the 19…
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Michael Denning. (New York: Verso, 1996. xx, 556 pp. $29.00, ISBN 1-85984-815-X.) Get access Michael Rogin Michael Rogin University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952690…
Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Journal Article Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1986, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/22.1.1 Published: 01 October 1986
Money Changes Everything: The Divestment Bockade at Columbia Inc
When Education Secretary William Bennett justified the Reagan Administration's proposed student aid cuts, he said the cuts might force some students into the divestiture of stereos, automobiles, and vacations on the beach. His very choice of the word divestiture was, one imagines, a deliberate attempt to trivialize the main center of student political activism during the last few years: the campaign to get universities to divest themselves of hol…
Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Journal Article Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1986, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/22.1.1 Published: 01 October 1986
Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman
Research Article| October 01 1986 Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1986-36-110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman. Radical History Rev…
The Special American Conditions: Marxism and American Studies
In a limited sense, this is a book; in many senses, it is unrecognizably Marxist. For American intellectuals, pro and contra Marx, this is probably as it should be. While it may come close to impossible to think about progressive change without engaging Marxist categories, one of the lessons to be drawn from Kenneth Burke's career is that an American (self-reliant) Marxism is fundamentally an absurd proposition. The active critical soul in Americ…
Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury
Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
Journal Article Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America. By Michael Denning. (London: Verso, 1987. xi + 259 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $13.95.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908688 Published:…
The End of Mass Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ends of Ending Mass Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies
Research Article| October 01 1992 The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 21–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-54-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies. Radical History Review 1 October 1992; 1…
The Cartoonists' Front
Research Article| January 01 1993 The Cartoonists’ Front Holly Allen; Holly Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 89–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Holly Allen, Michael Denning; T…
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Michael Denning. (New York: Verso, 1996. xx, 556 pp. $29.00, ISBN 1-85984-815-X.) Get access Michael Rogin Michael Rogin University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952690…
The cultural front: The laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century
Globalization in cultural studies: Process and epoch
Globalization has quickly become a ubiquitous term; it names a process, an epoch, a discourse, a promise, a threat, a way of looking at ‘the world’. It also names a new kind of ‘inter-discipline’, a new protocol of writing and teaching in the humanities and social science. The article charts the emergence of globalization in cultural studies: first, by sketching the lineaments of globalization discourse as it appears in three major anthologies of…
Representing Global Labor
Research Article| September 01 2007 Representing Global Labor Michael Denning Michael Denning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Denning; Representing Global Labor. Social Text 1 September 2007; 25 (3 (92)): 125–145. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-00…
Afterword: Reconsidering the Significance of the Popular Front
Reflections on the meaning and legacy of the Great Depression of the 1930s have returned to public discourse in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. The Rethinking Marxism symposium on the Popular Front can be seen as part of this reflection, and this response to the symposium offers a brief overview of the ways the political and cultural insurgencies of the Great Depression have been understood by left militants and intellectuals from the 19…
Wageless Life
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Design and Discontent
Michael Denning on Nikil Saval, Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace. Transitions from counting-house to typing-pool to playpen, as capital’s designers sought to contain the discontents of labour
"Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, "Spaces and Times of Occupation
Occupying Occupations
The occupation of one's place of work has long been a central figure of labor and livelihood movements: though instances of workplace occupation are relatively rare and their durations brief, they have had a disproportionate imaginative impact. This essay considers the imaginative lineaments of workplace occupations—from the factory occupations of 1917–19 to the worker occupations of the Great Recession after 2008—focusing on the ways they have f…
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
International audience
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
Impeachment as a Social Form
How to account for the recurrent forms of populism, from Bonaparte to Trump? Components of a theory in Marx’s account of variant ‘lesser’ modes of exploitation—rent, tax, interest—and their necessary forms of appearance
Everyone a Legislator
What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics? Often taken to be a theory of the party as a ‘modern prince’ derived from Machiavelli, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? Michael Denning argues that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing as a premonitory form of democratic legislation
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