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The Politics of Cultural Studies and Cool Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... “the Birmingham School” and “British Cultural Studies” have been used to label this trajectory, it is more accurately named “Hallian Cultural Studies” since Stuart Hall was its leading exponent and inspiration. Hall himself, however, is not necessarily responsible for the problems associated with the consumerist...
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The Intellectual Genealogies and Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony Bennett
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 161–182.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., and functioning of distinctive kinds of culture/power complexes, from which a new paradigm of cultural studies may be expected to emerge. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 Gramsci Foucault cultural policy studies Birmingham School discipline formation governmentality Chiefly noted for his work...
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Is Cultural Studies a Discipline?: And Does It Make Any Political Difference?
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 265–280.
Published: 01 November 2006
... for original analysis and, in our fields, critique. And, in the transformation of university governance over the past couple of decades, attention has been paid to the emergence of inter-, trans-, sub-, or extradisciplinary units – programs, centers, schools – within the global university system, leading...
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Power Under and Overdetermined
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 133–138.
Published: 01 March 2009
... for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at Birmingham University to more recent attempts to transnationalize and decenter Cultural studies. Rather than tackle the “what is culture” question, Gibson critically analyzes the ways in which power is thought and referenced in these debates. What Gibson finds...
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Loss and the Production of Community Archives
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 289–304.
Published: 01 July 2024
... that traditional archival practice seeks to address, manage, and mitigate. However, through the discussion of two case studies—a participatory arts company in Stoke on Trent and zine archives and libraries in Manchester and Birmingham—loss can materialize as presence, through damp and clutter, evidence...
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Feeling Austere
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 413–415.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and the problematic notion of “creativity” in neoliberalism. Finally, Forkert explores solidarity’s potential to challenge shame, the powerful emotional currency of the moment. Forkert’s media background (she currently works as reader in the School of Media at Birmingham City University) comes through...
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On the Freedom to Be Opaque Monsters: Communist Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and the Sublime
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the proletarians. Whereas democracy demands equality (one person, one vote), capitalism demands inequality (one dollar, one vote). Education has been integral in managing this contradiction. For example, in the United States one of the founding rationales for the public school system was that it would suspend...
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The Dark Side of the Spectacle: Terror in Norway and the UK Riots
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in contemporary politics. 1 Another form of media spectacle involves alienated men taking part in school or workplace shooting rampages and acts of domestic terrorism, such as Timothy McVeigh's bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 or Breivik's 2011 rampage in Norway. Social unrest...
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Concrete Ambivalence: Inside the Bunker Complex
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... with effect. As Reyner Banham argues, if the “form follows function” edict had been followed scrupulously “there would be no way in which a design school could look like a factory” (1989: 7). There may be sound reasons why Madin's Birmingham library was built to resemble a flak tower, but necessity...
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The Competition of Two Discourses: The Making of a New Ideology in China
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2012
... place in Beijing's primary schools and high schools over the past few years and shows how this new ideology has disrupted humane and civic education and brought the entire nation into a norm of instrumental mentality. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 ideology social ideology ideology...
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A Time to Gather Stones: Nomadism After War in Susanne Slavick's Out of Rubble
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... by the mutual exclusion of its terms: how can tragedy and suffering be rendered beautiful? And yet there remains the belief among certain moralizing schools of aesthetics that the beautiful art of tragedy is capable, through prolonged exposure, of anesthetizing the viewer to the pain of its subjects...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., as my parents expected me to behave as though I was an Arab Iranian with all the restrictions on female behavior and sexuality. Dating was out of question. Going out with friends was restricted. There was one culture at home and another at school. My education was UK based. After graduating from...
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The Recursive Mode: Space, Time, and the Hyper-Commodification of Culture
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... School, et al., and who see only “disruption and junk” emanating from manipulative “evil corporations” (1999). Is the dichotomy so clear and distinction so simple? Are the products of commodity capitalism so obviously and unambiguously good? What I want to do is to open up Postrel's argument, especially...
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“Participatory Drama”: The New Left, the Vietnam War, and the Emergence of Performance Studies
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the decisions of those elected to perform certain roles? Or should they raise their voices and demand to be a part of the action, as in the New Left vision of participatory democracy? The perspectives discussed here run directly counter to a school of thought that finds political potential in spectatorship...
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A Predictably Obedient Riot: Postpolitics, Consumer Culture, and the English Riots of 2011
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... for decades. The riots cost the British taxpayer somewhere in the region of £133 million ( Laville 2011 ), around twenty-five hundred shops were looted ( Topping and Bawdon 2011 ), and three men lost their lives in an associated altercation in Birmingham. The riots petered out after a week or so, and media...
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Three Works on the Politics and Possibilities of Hip-Hop Now
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and not merely roots. And through his work with Stuart Hall and others from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies he has helped reimagine Marxist cultural studies to accommodate the discourses, expressions, and practices of peoples oppressed on the basis of race and ethnicity. It's...
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“Places Where I Forgot Things”: Memory, Identity, and the British Council Estate in the Paintings of George Shaw
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 357–370.
Published: 01 November 2013
... cover the windows of the front room and the bedroom above. This was clearly one of those places familiar to Shaw throughout his childhood and adolescence, and the painting beautifully conveys the sense of tranquillity that Shaw recalls from “one of those days when I was off school for some reason,” when...
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Internal Colony as Political Perspective: Counterinsurgency, Extraction, and Anticolonial Legacies of ’68 in the United States
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in occupied territory, in other words, gives space to the belief that white America was developing something like a “final solution” to the “Negro problem”: “A member of my family said to me when we learned of the bombing of the four little girls in the Birmingham Sunday school, ‘Well, they don’t need us...
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The Kultur of Cultural Techniques: Conceptual Inertia and the Parasitic Materialities of Ontologization
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... for “poison”—cognates derived from the same stem and identical in many ways, but better not mistaken for each other. This conceptual divergence contributed its share to the bygone phony war between Frankfurt-style critical theory and Birmingham-bred cultural studies—a contest of mutual disregard designed...
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Unfamiliarity and Familiarity in the Bauman Archive
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 262–276.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in Birmingham—once wrote that “archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the present puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another.” The questions that the present puts...
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