This text contains two of Walter Benjamin's essays, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , and Theses on the Philosophy of History , as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust, and book collecting.

Covering topics from theory and method, to science and cyberculture, this work combines forty-two articles with editorial introductions, and also includes a comprehensive bibliography. It provides a road map to students of cultural studies.

Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

Talks about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called Anarchy in the UK was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. In this book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics, and the Knights of the Round Table, unravel the secret history of the twentieth century.

In this book the author gives an account of the arguments surrounding the proposition of postmodernism and contributes to the debate on what exactly is the nature of current social change.

A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.