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The Figure of Subalternity and the Neoliberal Future

I began my research in cultural studies by focusing on issues of popular music and postmodernity, but the transversal paths that I mapped led me someplace else, to the intersection of three questions: The constitution and limits of philosophical modernity, the growing political and experiential dominance of a (contradictory) new conservatism in the United States (as well as other advanced industrial nations), and the project of neoliberal capitalist globalization.1 Perhaps this was predictable from the outset of my career. After all, for me, cultural studies, although it is not alone here, seeks better knowledge of the changing configurations of the systems of domination, and the organizations of acceptance, intimidation, apathy, and resistance, in order to offer new and better ways of understanding, responding to, and transforming them.