A overview of cultural theory after postmodernism which provides a user- friendly introduction for students. Theorists assess the postmodernist project, mapping out the future terrain for a critical approach to cultural theory.

Acknowledgements, Contributors, Theorizing culture: an introduction, Part I: Truth, reality and cultural critique, 1. Culture, criticism and communal values: on the ethics of enquiry, 2. Realism and its discontents: on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts, 3. Reflexivity in academic culture, 4. Theorizing the body’s fictions, 5. Culture, subjectivity and the real; or, psychoanalysis reading postmodernity, 6. Adorno, Oakeshott and the voice of poetry, 7. Representing AIDS: the textual politics of health discourse, 8. News, truth and postmodernity: unravelling the will to facticity, Part II: Recasting cultural politics, 9. The celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism, 10. Cultural studies, the university and the question of borders, 11. Changing the culture of cultural studies, 12. Nuclear family fall-out: postmodern family culture and the media, 13. Remembering the future: the cultural study of memory, 14. Imagining Nature: (re)constructions of the English countryside, 15. Tyrell’s Owl: the limits of the technological imagination in an epoch of hyperbolic discourse, 16. Technological reality: cultured technology and technologized culture, 17. The temporal landscape of global/izing culture and the paradox of postmodern futures, Index