This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate Marx's theoretical reconstruction of the capitalist formation from the point of view of recent social dynamics within advanced consumer economies.
BRINGS MARX INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: The book demonstrates why Marx's analysis of the dynamics of capitalist society continues to be the most insightful, revealing and fruitful approach, particularly in the context of the current economic crisis
Marx's Critique of Abstraction * Capitalism's Process of Self-Mystification * Marx's Theoretical Process I: Abstraction and Representation * Marx's Theoretical Process II: Historicizing the Dialectic * Mediation as Allegory: Reading Political Economy Through the Artwork of Geoffrey Farmer * The Aesthetics of Political Economy * Mapping the Collective Subject