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Studies and its Theoretical Legaciesˇ¨: Christine Hsieh |
I. Retrospection and extension of the cultural studies into the futureA. Origins of CS (abbreviation for cultural studies) 1. Multiple discourse 2. Multiple histories 3. Formations 4. Multiple methodologies 5. Theoretical positions B. Open ended (extension to future) It is a project that is always open to that which it doesnˇ¦t yet know, to that which it canˇ¦t yet name. C. Present Here one registers the tension between a refusal to close the field (CS), to police it and, at the same time, a determination to stake out some positions within it and argue for them. II.
Strategy (p. 1900)
A. Deconstruct Marxism in British CS 1. New left isolation from Marxism 2. No perfect match moment between Marxism and British CS a. Orthodoxy, doctrinal character, determination 3. Wrestling with the angels (p. 1901) The only theory worth having is that which you have to fight off.
B. Project of CS: in Gramsciˇ¦s close notion of cultural studies (p. 1903) 1. Trying to find an institutional practice in CS that might produce an organic intellectual. 2. Organic intellectual should be at the forefront of intellectual theoretical work. 3. They cannot absolve himself or herself from the responsibility of transmitting those ideas. C. Theoretical work as interruption (extrinsic sources of the formation of CS) CS as theoretical work must go on and on living with that tension deconstruct and construct CS at the same time. 1. Ruptural intervention of feminism (p.1904)
2. Race question in CS 3. Other theoretical advances: a.
Structuralism D. The nature of CSˇXcontradictory, displacement, contestation. 1. AIDS as example (p. 1907) III. Conclusion (p. 1908)A. The problem of the institutionalization of these two constructions: British cultural studies and American cultural studies 1. The danger of the enormous explosion of CS in the U.S., its rapid professionalization and insititutionalization: Theoretical fluency is not to theorized everything in cultural studies, which may constitutes power and politics as exclusively matters of language and textuality itself. B. How the field of cultural studies has to be defined. CS as theory of a set of contested, localized conjunctural knowledges, which has to be debated in a dialogical way. |
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