Power misses

This book challenges the prevailing wisdom in cultural studies today. James insists that popular resistance to domination by the culture industry must intervene at the point of production rather than consumption. In its most resolute instances alternative culture has fused with radical politics.
James maps cultural resistance under capitalism and examines the material contradictions and the utopian potentials in for example John Berger's fiction, Dada, rock music, the films of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas and the poetry of punk. All in all James explores the innumerable ways in which culture is drenched by the commodity form, while at the same time given rise to numerous forms of popular resistance to the culture industry's dominance.