Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21188005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brice Nixon (University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 439-456 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X |
| Publisher | Information Society Research (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.371 |
| OpenAlex | W1498090114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article argues that the quality that defines critical political economy is its critical method. Definitions of the critical political economy of culture are considered and shown to focus on specific theoretical concerns while not fully addressing the fundamental issue of method. Method is here discussed in terms of the way human reason is used to produce knowledge. A critical method for Marx is a historical materialist dialectical method, thus this paper argues for a deeper consideration of the Marxist dialectical method in relation to critical political-economic theorizing. Sources for methodological consideration from Marx to 20th-century Western Marxists are outlined. The potential contribution of the Marxist dialectical method in the continued development of the critical political economy of culture is demonstrated by showing the possibility of developing a complementary critical political economy of consciousness. Smythe’s theorizing of audiences as workers is considered as a useful starting point, and its potential development through incorporation of the work of other critical scholars of media and culture is outlined
Critical appraisal · Critical theory · Dialectic · Dialectical materialism · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
The Ideological Reproduction
Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory
Toward a Political Economy of ‘Audience Labour’ in the Digital Era
Social justice for the poor
Towards a Decolonial Critical Political Economy of the Media
Framing the Poor during Covid-19
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil
The Question of Methodology in Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Media
History and Class Consciousness
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
The Wealth of Networks
The Political Economy of Communication Revisited
Accumulation by Disposession
Non-Dialectical Materialism
Watching as Working
Rethinking Political Economy
A Revolution of the Mind
Information and Communication Technologies and Society
Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet
Google ads and the blindspot debate
Contribution to a political economy of mass-communication
Audience labor in the new media environment
On the Problem of the Dialectic
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Revisiting ‘mass communication’ and the ‘work’ of the audience in the new media environment
Not yet the post‐imperialist era
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
Phenomenology of Spirit
Free Labor
The Culture Industry
Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |