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    Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 1991 - Bloomsbury Publishing.
    An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
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  2. The Postmodern Turn.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 1999 - Science and Society 63 (4):515-518.
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    The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 2001 - Guilford Press.
    Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the success of Best and Kellner s two previous books: (...)
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    Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics.Michael A. Peters, Paulo Ghiraldelli, Steven Best, Ramin Farahmandpur, Jim Garrison, Douglas Kellner, James D. Marshall, Peter McLaren, Michael Peters, Björn Ramberg, Alberto Tosi Rodrigues, Juha Suoranta & Kenneth Wain - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of Richard Rorty's thought. The nine essays which comprise the collection examine a variety of related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism, his view of philosophy, his philosophy of education and culture, Rorty's comparison between Dewey and Foucault, his relation to postmodern theory, and, also his form of political liberalism.
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  5. Rap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    Ice Cube "What's a brother gotta do to get a message through to the Red, White, and Blue?" Ice-T Rap music has emerged as one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past decade. A significant part of hip hop culture, [1] rap articulates the experiences and conditions of African-Americans living in a spectrum of marginalized situations ranging from racial stereotyping and stigmatizing to struggle for survival in violent ghetto conditions. In this cultural context, rap provides a (...)
     
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  6. Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Politics of Cloning.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    As we move into a new millennium fraught with terror and danger, a global postmodern cosmopolis is unfolding in the midst of rapid evolutionary and social changes co-constructed by science, technology, and the restructuring of global capital. We are quickly morphing into a new biological and social existence that is ever-more mediated and shaped by computers, mass media, and biotechnology, all driven by the logic of capital and a powerful emergent technoscience. In this global context, science is no longer merely (...)
     
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  7. (1 other version)The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy: Theoretical Provocations and Normative Deficits.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    In the realm of philosophy and other theoretical discourses, there are many different paths to the turn from the modern to the postmodern, representing a complex genealogy of diverse and often divergent trails through different disciplines and cultural terrains. One pathway moves through an irrationalist tradition from romanticism to existentialism to French postmodernism via the figures of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Bataille into the proliferation of French postmodern theory. This is the route charted by Jurgen Habermas in The Philosophical Discourse of (...)
     
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  8. (1 other version)Dawns,Twilights, and Transitions: Postmodern Theories, Politics, and Challenges.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    The postmodern turn which has so marked social and cultural theory also involves conflicts between modern and postmodern politics. In this essay, we articulate the differences between modern and postmodern politics and argue against one-sided positions which dogmatically reject one tradition or the other in favor of partisanship for either the modern or the postmodern. Arguing for a politics of alliance and solidarity, we claim that this project is best served by drawing on the most progressive elements of both the (...)
     
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  9. Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    "But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence, ... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness,".
     
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  10. The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    The past several decades have exhibited vertiginous change, surprising novelties, and upheaval in an era marked by technological revolution and the global restructuring of capitalism.1 This "great transformation," comparable in scope to the shifts produced by the Industrial Revolution, is moving the world into a postindustrial, infotainment, and biotech mode of global capitalism, organized around new information, communications, and genetic technologies. The scientific-technological-economic revolutions of the era and spread of the global economy are providing new financial opportunities, openings for political (...)
     
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    Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 1999 - Substance 28 (3):129-156.
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  12. and Postmodern Theory.Richard Rorty, Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - unknown
    In theorizing the postmodern, one inevitably encounters the postmodern assault on theory, such as Lyotard's and Foucault's attack on modern theory for its alleged totalizing and essentializing character. The argument is ironic, of course, since it falsely homogenizes a heterogeneous "modern tradition" and since postmodern theorists like Foucault and Baudrillard are often as totalizing as any modern thinker (Kellner 1989 and Best 1995). But where Lyotard seeks justification of theory within localized language games, arguing that no universal criteria are possible (...)
     
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    Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2001.Steven Best, El Paso, James Bohman, Randall Collins, Mark Cooney, Diane Davis, Maria Epele, Capital Federal, Argentina Steven Epstein & Jennifer Jordan - 2002 - Theory and Society 31 (149):149-149.
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    Genetic science, animal exploitation, and the challenge for democracy.Steven Best - 2006 - AI and Society 20 (1):6-21.
    As the debates over cloning and stem cell research indicate, issues raised by biotechnology combine research into the genetic sciences, perspectives and contexts articulated by the social sciences, and the ethical and anthropological concerns of philosophy. Consequently, I argue that intervening in the debates over biotechnology requires supra-disciplinary critical philosophy and social theory to illuminate the problems and their stakes. In addition, debates over cloning and stem cell research raise exceptionally important challenges to bioethics and a democratic politics of communication.
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  15. (1 other version)Marx and the Problem of Conflicting Models of History.Steven Best - 1990 - Philosophical Forum 22 (2):167.
    Some critics argue that Marx has conflicting models of history: a "continuist" model that interprets history as a unified, evolutionary movement, and a "discontinuist" model that sees capitalist society as a break from all preceding social formations. I argue that Marx in fact does have multiple models of history, but that these are not incompatible or contradictory. Rather, Marx adopts a "perspectival" or "contextualist" approach that employs different models to gain different perspectives on the historical process. I provide a close (...)
     
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    Postmodernism.Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 2003 - In Robert Solomon & David Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 285–308.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Modern Theory and Kierkegaard's Assault on Reason Nietzsche and the Postmodern Nietzsche's Progeny and the Postmodern Turn: From Heidegger through Derrida Foucault's Critique of Rationality and Modernity Lyotard's “Postmodern Condition”: Polemics and Aporia Richard Rorty, the Attack on Theory, and Renunciation of Radical Politics For Theory and Politics.
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  17. Contributors to this issue 131–132 Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2003 133–134.Frank Dobbin, Charles Perrow, Tom Pollard, Ray Pratt, Timothy W. Luke, Steven Best & Douglas Kellner - 2004 - Theory and Society 33:741-743.
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    watching Television: Notes toward a Political CriticismWatching Television. [REVIEW]Steven Best, Douglas Kellner & Todd Gitlin - 1987 - Diacritics 17 (2):97.
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