Title: All Industries are Cultural. A Critique of the Idea of "Cultural Industries" and New Possibilities for Research

Daniel Mato is Full Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of the Program on Culture, Communication, and Social Transformations (PCCTS), at the Center for Postdoctoral Research, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). He holds a Doctorate in Social Sciences (UCV), and has been a Visiting Professor at several universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States.

He has been the chair of the Section on “Culture, Politics and Power” of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), as well as of the Working Group on “Culture and Power” of the Latin American Council on Social Sciences (CLACSO). He is the author of numerous books and articles published in Spanish, as well as of several articles published in English in both books and academic journals. Many of his publications are available on-line in the website of the PCCTS: .

He has formerly been a plenary speaker at the Third International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference held in Birmingham, UK, in 2000. His most recent book is Crítica de la modernidad, globalización y construcción de identidades (1995), and his most recent coedited volumes are América Latina en tiempos de globalización (1996) and América Latina en tiempos de globalización II (2000). E-mail: