ABSTRACT

Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change. The book is motivated by two intertwined but distinct purposes: first, to show the privileged and fruitful link between a "Gramscian Theory of Communication" and a "Communicative Theory of Gramsci;" second, to explore the ways in which such a Gramscian perspective can help us interpret and explain different forms of political activism in the twenty-first century, such as "Occupy" in the US, "Indignados" in Spain, or "Movimento Cinque Stelle" in Italy.

chapter 1|17 pages

Gramsci in/for Critical Times

chapter 2|19 pages

Selective Gramsci(s)

chapter 3|23 pages

Gramsci and Communication

Dialectics and Translation

chapter 4|18 pages

Occupy Wall Street

The Limits of War of Position

chapter 5|20 pages

Movimento Cinque Stelle

Dialectics of Passive Revolution

chapter 6|22 pages

From Indignados to Podemos

Sublating Vernacular Rhetoric into National Popular Rhetoric

chapter 7|21 pages

A Dialectical Image