Culture, Media, Language-Stuart Hall

New cultural studies: adventures in theory, 2006

The crossing of disciplinary boundaries by the new humanities and the “humanities-tocome”is lumped as “cultural studies” in a very confused way.The term, cultural studies, wascoined by Richard Hoggart in 1964; and the movement was inaugurated by Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society (1958) and by The Uses of Literacy (1958), and it became institutionalized in the influential Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies [CCCS], founded by Hoggart in 1964. It is evident that much of what falls under cultural studies could easily be classified under various other labels such as marxism, structuralism, new historicism, feminism and postcolonialism. Since the term has become popularized, I would not focus on why it is named so. Instead, the concern of this paper is to provide a deep theoretical understanding of cultural studies. Cultural studies analyzes the social, religious, cultural, discourses and institutions, and their role in the society. It basically aims to study the functioning of the social, economic, and political forces and power-structure that produce all forms of cultural phenomena and give them social “meanings” and significance.

Cultural Studies Review, 2020

Two prevailing inflections of ‘persistence’ occupy the social imagination. In the first, generally considered the domain of toddlers, journalists and telemarketers, persistence comes as something troublesome, incessant, and largely irritating. In the other, persistence is held as a virtue; a capacity maintained by those capable of ‘seeing things through’. Each version of the term may well share a common foundation (hanging on too long can, after all, descend to irritation), but either way, persistence is a capacity that declares its presence; a signifier of the ‘stuff’ of its bearer, and the nature of the situation. Persistence notifies the intention that whatever may come is here to stay. I want to outline two visions of Cultural Studies in light of these inflections of persistence in order to pose questions of what it is that Cultural Studies should hope to achieve in a world grown precarious. In extension to recent, notable expressions that have surveyed this consideration1, I make the point that Cultural Studies needs to be a little more careful in how it continues to understand itself, and perhaps more crucially, how it should continue to imagine its ‘project’. What I mean by this is that, in this current moment of direct challenge to all that seems reasonable and rational, from multiple angles both within the University (as the primary site of Cultural Studies’ practice; we are institutionalised, after all) and those wider publics from which we claim we speak, it is with the persistence of troubling ways of doing things that Cultural Studies has customarily identified a primary purpose.

Cultural studies is a field constantly questioning itself, with its practitioners reflecting on its objects of study, methods and the politics of the knowledge it produces. For some, this reflexivity represents a problem with the field. It is seen as a relic of cultural studies' struggle to constitute itself as a particular form of scholarly practice that is no longer necessary because of its increasing institutionalization within the university. For others, this inquisitiveness and commitment to consider its own assumptions are cultural studies' greatest strengths and a reason why the field has the potential to improve our knowledge of a constantly changing world. These positions (and various points between them) have been taken up in a number of recent works on cultural studies, of which I will here discuss Lawrence Grossberg's Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (CSFT), Paul Smith's edited collection e Renewal of Cultural Studies (RCS), and Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (CCS), edited by Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou. With cultural studies itself as their subject, these works help to provide different perspectives of the field as they map its key themes, issues, and debates. However, they may also be seen as working to take cultural studies into the future, with each book suggesting ways to ensure the discipline's value as an interdisciplinary intellectual and institutional practice.

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2006

What should or could cultural studies look like in the 21st Century? New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores some of the most exciting new directions currently being opened up in cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School: a generation who have turned to theory as a means to think through some of the crucial problems and issues in contemporary culture. New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory collects for the first time the ideas of this generation and explains just why theory continues to be crucial for cultural studies. The book explores theory's past, present and most especially future role in cultural studies. It does so by providing an authoritative and accessible guide, for students and researchers alike, to: * some of the most interesting members of this 'post-Birmingham school' generation * the thinkers and theories currently influencing new work in cultural studies: Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Hardt and Negri, Kittler, Laclau, Levinas, Zizek * the new territories being mapped out across the intersections of cultural studies and cultural theory: anti-capitalism, ethics, the posthumanities, post-Marxism, new media technologies, the transnational. CONTENTS 1. Introduction: New Cultural Studies (Clare Birchall and Gary Hall) Part 1: New Adventures in Theory 2. Cultural Studies and Deconstruction (Gary Hall) 3. Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism (Jeremy Valentine) 4. Cultural Studies and Ethics (Joanna Zylinska) 5. Cultural Studies and German Media Theory (Geoffrey Winthrop-Young) Part 2: New Theorists 6. Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze (Gregory J. Seigworth) 7. Cultural Studies and Giorgio Agamben (Brett Neilson) 8. Cultural Studies and Alain Badiou (Julian Murphet) 9. Cultural Studies and Slavoj Zizek (Paul Bowman) Part 3: New Transformations 10. Cultural Studies and Anti-Capitalism (Jeremy Gilbert) 11. Cultural Studies and the Transnational (Imre Szeman) 12. Cultural Studies and New Media (Caroline Bassett) Part 4: New Adventures in Cultural Studies 13. Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas' Project on the City (J. McGregor Wise) 14. Cultural Studies and the Post-Human(ities) (Neil Badmington) 15. Cultural Studies and the Extreme (Dave Boothroyd) 16. Cultural Studies and the Secret (Clare Birchall)

2004

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INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Interrogating Cultural Studies Section One: From Cultural Studies Catherine Belsey: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism? Mieke Bal: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis: ‘a controlled reflection on the formation of method’ Martin McQuillan: The Projection of Cultural Studies Section Two: Cultural Studies (&) Philosophy Simon Critchley: Why I Love Cultural Studies Chris Norris: Two Cheers for Cultural Studies: A Philosopher’s View Section Three: For Cultural Studies Adrian Rifkin: Inventing Recollection Griselda Pollock: Becoming Cultural Studies: the Daydream of the Political Section Four: What Cultural Studies Jeremy Gilbert: Friends and Enemies: Which Side is Cultural Studies On? Julian Wolfreys: …as if such a thing existed… Section Five: Positioning Cultural Studies John Mowitt: Cultural Studies, in Theory Jeremy Valentine: The Subject Position of Cultural Studies: Is There A Problem? Steven Connor: What Can Cultural Studies Do? Section Six: Against Cultural Studies Thomas Docherty: responses Lynette Hunter: unruly fugues Index