Performativity of Value (eBook)

On the Citability of Cultural Commodities

Steve Sherlock (Autor)

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2013
296 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6862-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Steve Sherlock’s The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities explores how social identity is increasingly constructed through the citation of cultural commodities—a process that has become “performative” of the U.S. cultural economy. Sherlock extends the work of Butler, Derrida, and the Bakhtin Circle to describe how the regeneration of exchange value involves the continual re-commodification of language.

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The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities addresses the increased commodification of language in the U.S. cultural economy. The marketing of cultural commodities in formats such as websites, videos, movies, books, online games, or television episodesas distributed across a wide range of technological devicesmeans that language is moving across situational contexts to an unprecedented degree. Just as authors quote or paraphrase sources in the construction of a text, subjects ';cite' the commodified words, images, and works of others as they construct their social identities. Steve Sherlock discusses how consumer citational practices generate demand for those cultural commodities which align the self with particular subcultural groups. By ';re-citing' the exchange value frame within which language itself has acquired an economic worth, consumer citational practices have become performative of the U.S. cultural economy. In order to describe this process, the book extends the work of Judith Butler on the performativity of gender to the performativity of exchange value, as well as to the performativity of subcultural values. The book also develops a critique of the increasing commodification of language in the contemporary economy. Sherlock follows Butler in developing a model of performativity based on Jacques Derrida's work, particularly regarding the citability of language into new situational contexts. Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence in Western philosophy and culture is extended toward a critique of the assumed presence of exchange value in the cultural marketplace. The book also incorporates the work of the Bakhtin Circle into this frameworkespecially their insight into how everyday utterances, which ';report on' the words of others, become a site for the re-negotiation of values between self and others. The re-citational process used in contemporary identity construction can thus either re-cite the current cultural economy, or resist it. The Performativity of Value contributes to themes examined in social theory, social psychology, literary theory, continental philosophy, and cultural studies, and thus will be of interest to students and scholars working in those areas.

Autor

Steve Sherlock is a professor of sociology as Saginaw Valley State University.

Inhalt

Section I. Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Value: Development of the Theoretical ApproachChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2 :Reported Speech and CitationalitySection II. The Performativity of Value: Description of the Contemporary U.S. Cultural EconomyChapter 3: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Subcultural ValuesIdeology and Normative Citational PracticeThe Performativity of Subcultural ValuesConclusion: Critique of the Presence of Subcultural ValuesChapter 4: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Exchange ValueThe Citation of Cultural CommoditiesThe Temporality of Exchange Value ConclusionChapter 5: The Marketing of Citational ResourcesMarkets, Measures, and the Performativity of Exchange ValueThe Co-Performativity of ValueConclusionSection III. Toward a Poststructuralist Critique of the Commodification of Language in the U.S. Cultural Economy Chapter 6: The Promise of ValueBreaking Frame: Unsettling Exchange ValueAesthetic Negativity and CitationalityThe Futurity of Value ConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Bakhtin • Butler • Continental Philosophy • Cultural Economy • Cultural Studies • Derrida • Literary Theory • performativity • Philosophy of Language • poststructuralism • Social Theory
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6862-2 / 0739168622
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6862-2 / 9780739168622