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MA media culture & communication mcte module Post marxism

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

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MA media culture & communication mcte module Post marxism

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  1. MA media culture & communication mcte module Postmarxism

  2. 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

  3. Limits of marxism A 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

  4. Limits of marxism What marxism leaves out as a tool in critical cultural studies: Culture (!) Ideology Language The symbolic Other issues which fix its mode of thought in criticalcultural studies: Orthodoxy Doctrinal character Determinism Reductionism Its immutable law of history Stuart Hall

  5. Laclau & Mouffe Collaboration 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Culture as a set of practices Interpretation means “doing work” on the object to make meaning

  9. Materiality and culture The world exists in a material sense outside culture but is only made to mean within culture

  10. Struggle and debate Meaning-making is always a site for struggle and debate

  11. 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?

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