Culture Matters: An Introduction to Cultural Studies »

David Oswell has written a comprehensive introduction to cultural studies that guides the reader through the field's central foundations and its freshest ideas. This book:

- grounds the reader in the foundations of cultural studies and cultural theory: language and semiology, ideology and power, mass and popular culture;

- analyzes the central problems: identity, body, economy, globalization and empire;

- introduces the latest developments on materiality, agency, technology and nature.

Culture and Society is an invaluable guide for students navigating the dynamic debates and intellectual challenges of cultural studies. Its breadth and unparallelled coverage of cutting-edge theory will also ensure that it is read by anyone interested in questions of materiality and culture.

Introduction
From the Beginning Semiosis
From Representation to Translation Power
From Ideology to Government Popular Culture
From People to Multitude Identity
Between Subject and Object Body
Between Nature and Technology Economy
Between Structure and Network World
Between Globe and Empire Ethics
By Way of a Conclusion