The essays collected here, working at the point of intersection of literary studies and cultural studies, are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures.
A propos de l’auteur
John Frow is currently ARC Professorial Fellow and Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He is the co-editor of Cultural Studies Review and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. John Frow has published over 120 articles and book chapters, and is a member of the advisory or editorial boards of fourteen international and Australian journals. His previous books include: Marxism and Literary History (1986); Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995); Time and Commodity Culture (1997); Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (1999, with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison); and Genre (2006). His two edited collections, Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (with Meaghan Morris) and The Handbook of Cultural Analysis (with Tony Bennett) were published by Allen and Unwin and the University of Illinois Press, and by Sage.