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Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.

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Culture and its Outside Materiality and the Praxis of the Outside Labor and the Poetics of Capital Cultural Theory Now

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" Cultural Theory After the Contemporary is among the most important works in materialist cultural theory. Tumino offers a singular and incisive Marxist analysis of daily life that lays bare the complicity of the dominant theories with the culture of capitalism. Commanding in its scope and gravity - an indispensable work." - Steven Wexler, California State University, Northridge

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STEPHEN TUMINO Adjunct Professor in English at the City University of New York-Kingsborough, USA. His articles have appeared in such journals as Textual Practice and Nature, Society, and Thought.

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