Full Description
In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural expression. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our communities and environment.
Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social and legal change, Ross focuses in particular on how demands for certain forms of cultural justice often go hand in hand with injustices of other sorts, and shows why cultural politics are a real and inescapable part of any argument for social change.
Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Jobs in Cyberspace; Chapter 2 Mr. Reggae DJ, Meet the International Monetary Fund; Chapter 3 The Gangsta and the Diva; Chapter 4 The Private Parts of Justice; Chapter 5 If the Genes Fit, How Do You Acquit?; Chapter 6 The Great Un-American Numbers Game; Chapter 7 What the People Want from Art?; Chapter 8 The Lonely Hour of Scarcity; Chapter 9 Claims for Cultural Justice;
