Martyn Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martyn Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Sublime and Contemporary Popular Culture
This paper attempts to re‐examine the question of to what extent is it possible in the contemporary cultural situation for popular media texts such as music videos, mainstream films or television programmes, for example, to embody notions of the radical. Many, now conventional, variants of postmodern theory would seem to suggest the very notion of “the radical” has become an anachronism in a media landscape where the sphere of popular culture has…
The death of radical thought
Much has been written on the role that the intellectual classes play as ‘workers’ within the reproduction of advanced capitalist systems of production. This article traces some of the salient developments of this group of workers during the twentieth century focusing on their critical, although sometimes problematic, relation to capital. Using the seminal ideas of Aglietta, Lipietz and others associated with the French ‘regulation school’ I propo…
Flights of Fancy
It is worth remarking how many theories of consumer capitalism (of which postmodernism may be one exotic variant) have come to take capitalism at its face value: as a system of circulation, exchange and consumption. In doing so, they manage to reproduce the problem of commodity fetishism: the obscuring of the conditions and relations of production. It is as if the Burger King I consumed while reading Lyotard did not rest on a whole system of capi…
Exploring the symbolic economy
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Exploring the symbolic economy
Flights of Fancy
It is worth remarking how many theories of consumer capitalism (of which postmodernism may be one exotic variant) have come to take capitalism at its face value: as a system of circulation, exchange and consumption. In doing so, they manage to reproduce the problem of commodity fetishism: the obscuring of the conditions and relations of production. It is as if the Burger King I consumed while reading Lyotard did not rest on a whole system of capi…
The death of radical thought
Much has been written on the role that the intellectual classes play as ‘workers’ within the reproduction of advanced capitalist systems of production. This article traces some of the salient developments of this group of workers during the twentieth century focusing on their critical, although sometimes problematic, relation to capital. Using the seminal ideas of Aglietta, Lipietz and others associated with the French ‘regulation school’ I propo…
The Sublime and Contemporary Popular Culture
This paper attempts to re‐examine the question of to what extent is it possible in the contemporary cultural situation for popular media texts such as music videos, mainstream films or television programmes, for example, to embody notions of the radical. Many, now conventional, variants of postmodern theory would seem to suggest the very notion of “the radical” has become an anachronism in a media landscape where the sphere of popular culture has…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)