Lexington Books
Pages: 298
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-6861-5 • Hardback • December 2013 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-7391-6862-2 • eBook • December 2013 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
Steve Sherlock is a professor of sociology as Saginaw Valley State University.
Section I. Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Value: Development of the Theoretical Approach
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Reported Speech and Citationality
Section II. The Performativity of Value: Description of the Contemporary U.S. Cultural Economy
Chapter 3: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Subcultural Values
Ideology and Normative Citational Practice
The Performativity of Subcultural Values
Conclusion: Critique of the Presence of Subcultural Values
Chapter 4: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Exchange Value
The Citation of Cultural Commodities
The Temporality of Exchange Value
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Marketing of Citational Resources
Markets, Measures, and the Performativity of Exchange Value
The Co-Performativity of Value
Conclusion
Section III. Toward a Poststructuralist Critique of the Commodification of Language in the U.S.
Cultural Economy
Chapter 6: The Promise of Value
Breaking Frame: Unsettling Exchange Value
Aesthetic Negativity and Citationality
The Futurity of Value
Conclusion
Bibliography