New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory After Postmodernism
Automodernity from Zizek to Laclau

This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity.

This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity.

Auto-Modernity: Autonomy and Automation after Postmodernity
Henry Jenkins: Cultural Studies, New Media and the Ends of the Modern University
After Frederic Jameson: A Practical Critique of Pure Theory and Postmodernity
The Political without Politics: Slavoj Zizek and the Psychoanalysis of Automodernity
On the Psychopathology of the New Right: From Jurassic Park to the Gendered Culture Wars
The Automodern University: The Universal Individual and the Backlash Against Social Discourse
Grand Theft Automodernity: Globalizing Individualism and Cultural Nihilism from Eminem to The Matrix
Postmodern Education and Social Ethics after Automodernity
Taking Back the Automodern University: Postmodern Progressive Social Movements and the Academic Class System
Beyond The Zizek-Laclau Debate: Coalition Politics and Academic Theory after Obama