Sean Johnson Andrews has produced an engaging text of multifaceted value. His work, particularly the opening chapters, provides a concise history of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), the (early) Frankfurt School Critical Theory, and the Political Economy of Communication (PEC). Although the histories and notable figureheads of these schools will be broadly familiar to most scholars working in the realm of cultural studies, these opening chapters would be an excellent introduction to the field for either a general readership or students. Indeed, this would make a good textbook in many contexts.
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Andrew J. Wood is an educator, writer, activist, and a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Influenced by an eclectic amalgamation of philosophy, political thought, music, poetics, economics, literature, and aesthetics, his work broadly addresses political imagination and radical social change through visual, sonic, and affective registers often disregarded by traditional social scientific paradigms.