ENGL 6050: Readings in Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall

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on April 18, 2024

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Discussion Posts — Week Two — Sarah Frank

From Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies , “The meaning of New Times” by Stuart Hall. I have quite a few questions about this Hall piece, but the question undergirding my other queries, and a question only partially answered in a later chapter from the Stuart Hall Reader , has to do with the binaries Hall invokes when discussing Cultural Studies vis-à-vis the project of modernity and ‘New Times.’ Question: Although sitting with vital contradictions and tensions is implicit to the work of Cultural Studies—indeed necessary, in Hall’s terms (‘Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies’ pg. 271)—what do we do with the apparatus of binaries that theoretical predecessors have left to us? I’m curious about some of the binaries Hall invokes: postmodernism as distinct from modernism (so much to say about that!), and culture as distinct from nature (I want more on how Hall defines nature on pg. 234). Part of the configuration of tension, as I have learned it, is that bip

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Yang Zadeh Handout Week 4

Handout for Week 4 Class is below. 0207 Handout - Xiaofan and Hannah THE NEW CONSERVATISM AND THE OLD (1957) - Hannah Hall says new conservatism is larger in scope, but this growth has come by adding, not editing or replacing. This has resulted in the party housing a body of contradictions, “held together, not by a coherent social philosophy, but by an unquestioning allegiance to the most rootless archetypal images.” Conservatism pushes people and the nation to act against their best immediate material interests to satisfy their ideological interests. More people see themselves as middle-class (for dually material and ideological reasons) and this compels them to reject welfare policies, as they see wealth distribution as costing not benefiting them. Britain starts and intervenes in conflicts beyond its capacity and not in the state’s best immediate material interest, but that serve Britain’s ideological goals to be a Western superpower. POLITICAL COMMITMENT (1966) - Hannah Hall desc

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