Cultural Studies in the Future Tense Book

Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and more broadly of the intellectual left especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a vision for the future of cultural studies as conjunctural analysis a radically contingent and contextual study of the articulations of lived discursive and material contexts. Proposing a compelling analysis of the contemporary political problem-space as a struggle over modernity he suggests the possibility of multiple ways of being modern as an analytic and imaginative frame. He develops an ontology of the modern as the potentialities of multiple configurations of temporalities and spatialities differences territorialities and powers and argues that euro-modernity is a specific geohistorical realization of this complex diagram.Challenging the euro-modern fragmentation of the social formation he discusses the rigorous conceptual and empirical work that cultural studies must dooincluding rethinking fundamental concepts such as economy culture and politics as well as modernityoto reinvent itself as an effective political-intellectual project. This book offers a vision of a contemporary cultural studies that embraces complexity rigorous interdisciplinary practice and experimental collaborations in an effort to better explain the present in the service of the imagination of other futures and the struggles for social transformation.