Preliminaries -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Theorizing culture an introduction -- 1 Culture criticism and communal values on the ethics of enquiry -- 2 Realism and its discontents on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts -- 3 Reflexivity in academic culture -- 4 Theorizing the body's fictions -- 5 Culture subjectivity and the real or psychoanalysis reading postmodernity -- 6 Adorno Oakeshott and the voice of poetry -- 7 Representing AIDS the textual politics of health discourse -- 8 News truth and postmodernity unravelling the will to facticity -- 9 The celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism -- 10 Cultural studies the university and the question of borders -- 11 Changing the culture of cultural studies -- 12 Nuclear family fall out postmodern family culture and the media -- 13 Remembering the future the cultural study of memory -- 14 Imagining Nature re constructions of the English countryside -- 15 Tyrell's Owl the limits of the technological imagination in an epoch of hyperbolic discourse -- 16 Technological reality cultured technology and technologized culture -- 17 The temporal landscape of global izing culture and the paradox of postmodern futures -- Index.