ma media culture & communication mcte module post marxism
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MA media culture & communication mcte module Post marxism. Post-Marxism and cultural studies - an agenda. Limits of Marxism in Popular Cultural Studies Laclau and Mouffe - Discourse Stuart Hall - Articulation Culture as a set of practices around artefacts - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MA media culture & communication
mcte module
Postmarxism
Post-Marxism and cultural studies - an agenda• Limits of Marxism in Popular Cultural Studies • Laclau and Mouffe - Discourse• Stuart Hall - Articulation• Culture as a set of practices around artefacts• Culture as a set of meaning-making practices• Meaning-making as a site for struggle and
debate
Limits of marxismA critique expanding on the limits of Marxism as a point of reference for cultural studies in terms of its:essentialismeconomismEuro-centrismand others (McRobbie, 1992)Angela McRobbie
Limits of marxism
Stuart Hall
What marxism leaves out as a tool in critical cultural studies:Culture (!)IdeologyLanguageThe symbolic
Other issues which fix its mode of thought in criticalcultural studies:OrthodoxyDoctrinal characterDeterminismReductionismIts immutable law of history
Laclau & MouffeCollaboration between Marxism and more recent emancipatory struggles
Shift from emphasis on ideology to emphasis on discourse: conceived as both language and meaningful action: the metaphor of the brick in the wall
Meanings are articulated with language and social practice through discourse
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe:
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Hegemony - recap“the normal exercise of hegemony … is characterised by the combination of force and consent”
Resistance is possible; but it is continually ‘incorporated’ or as Laclau and Mouffe would argue: different visions have their potential antagonism neutralised
Hegemony – profoundly ambiguous in its applications in Cultural Studies
Antonio Gramsci
Stuart Hall - Articulation
Objects have tobe articulated to achieve meaning
The “text” and the discourse around it is the act of articulating and meaning making
Encoding/decoding - the gap between the producer and the reader
Culture as a set of practices
Interpretation means “doing work” on the object to make meaning
Materiality and culture
The world exists in a material sense outside culture but is only made to mean within culture
Struggle and debate
Meaning-making is always a site for struggle and debate
Your videos:
Discourse (as language, text and social action)Merger of Marxist and other emancipatory theories?Hegemony (can we distinguish between ‘dominant’ and ‘subordinate’ groups? What is being negotiated?)Culture – how do the categories we’ve seen so far apply?