Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- One - Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism -- Introduction: Of Deconstruction into Politics -- The Discourse of Post-Marxism -- The Text of Cultural Studies -- The Problem with the Text -- The Institutional Articulation and Dissemination of Texts and Discourses -- Notes -- Two - Cultural Studies versus Post-Marxism -- Two Texts of Cultural Studies -- Stuart Hall's Closure versus Post-Marxist Discourse -- The Political Disciplinary Object -- Textual versus Discourse Analysis -- Cultural Studies versus Political Analysis -- The Object of the Subject -- Deconstruction versus post-Marxism -- Notes -- Three - Theory versus Practice -- Practice versus Theory -- Theory versus Practice -- Post-Marxist Theory and Practice -- Banal Pragmatism versus High Theory -- The (Dis)Articulation of Theory and Practice -- Knaves versus Fools -- Investments and Institutions -- Notes -- Four - Post-Marxist Cultural Studies' Theory, Politics and Intervention -- Relations and Effects -- The Necessity of Articulation -- The Necessity of Institution -- The (Dis)Articulation of Post-Marxism and Politics -- For a New Intervention -- The Necessity of Deconstruction -- Bibliography -- Index.