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Introduction to Part One 11

tury, ed. Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
Publishers, 2004), 9. This is not to say that consumption has not figured prominently
in political economy. According to Innis, as we will see, for society to focus on con-
sumption is tantamount to present-mindedness; for Raymond Williams, present-
mindedness means a decline in class consciousness.
18. Calabrese, “Toward a Political Economy of Culture,” 9.
19. See, for example, Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society (London:
Routledge, 1995), 163–92.
20. Introducing his edited collection dedicated to Garnham, Calabrese described
Garnham’s thirty-year scholarly career as “an intelligent and sustained appeal to the
Enlightenment project.” See Calabrese, “Toward a Political Economy of Culture,” 9.
21. See, for example, Richard Maxwell, “Political Economy Within Cultural Stud-
ies,” in A Companion to Cultural Studies, ed. Toby Miller (Oxford: Blackwell Pub-
lishing, 2001), 116–38.
22. For example, Calabrese, “Toward a Political Economy of Culture.”