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Cinema Studies vs. Cultural Studies? (The Evening Class)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:01:00 GMT

If I had foreseen as a young man that in my retirement years I would be writing about film, perhaps I would have taken a course or two in film theory. Perhaps. I've also never taken a writing class and continue to collect self-taught painters by curatorial principle. Self-discovery has long been one of my favorite aesthetics; something in me finding it much more fun to make things up as I go along....

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hegemony (Posthegemony)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Hegemony theory has become the ubiquitous common sense of cultural studies. This first chapter is a critique of both by means of an examination of their shared populism. After defining and historicizing the field, I embark on a close reading of the Argentine theorist Ernesto Laclau, whose version of hegemony theory is the most fully developed and influential for cultural studies....

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Critical Pedagogies at Enculturation (To Delight and to Instruct)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:52:00 GMT

Just to keep the ostensible focus of the blog on teaching, check out the new issue of the online journal Enculturation, focused on "Critical Pedagogies and Cultural Studies," and guest edited by Rachel Riedner, whose new book, co-authored with Kevin Mahoney, and entitled Democracies to Come : Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism and Resistance Communities , currently graces my desk.

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Is This Text Fucking With My Brain (Brit Lit Blogs)

no-reply@britlitblogs.com (3:AM Magazine) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:11:07 GMT

By Matt Thorne. Paul Hegarty and Danny Kennedy (eds), Dennis Cooper Writing at the Edge , Sussex Academic Press, 2008 No disrespect to my colleagues at the university where I teach Creative Writing, but Paul Hegarty, Lecturer in Cultural Studies at University College Cork is fast becoming my favourite academic. How can you not admire someone who follows up a book on noise music by co-editing...

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Talking With 'American Nerd' author Benjamin Nugent (New York Newsday)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:19:42 GMT

Maybe the time for revenge really has come: "American Nerd: The Story of My People," by Benjamin Nugent (Scribner, $20), is one of the season's most talked-about cultural studies. A New York-based music journalist and the author of " Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing," Nugent, 30, has produced a book both comic, in its recollections of the author's nerd childhood, and dead serious, in...

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Disability Journal Expands Focus (NewPages Blog)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:43:00 GMT

In 2009 the innovative Journal of Literary Disability is moving to Liverpool University Press under the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. It will continue to focus on the literary representation of disability, but cultural studies will now be added to the multidisciplinary mix. With an editorial board of 50 internationally renowned scholars, the...

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[zamanku] Hebrew Institute of Indonesia (bloglis zamanku)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Shalom, Welcome to the Web Site of the Hebrew Institute of Indonesia We serve as a Hebrew information and related such as Hebrew Biblical Studies, Cultural, Spirituality, Language, Politics and some Hebrew Literatures. And also, as a Center for Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies. Visit our group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Institut_Ibrani_Indonesia/ Visit our web: http://hebrewinstitute.wordpress.com...

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At-HQ - Cristobal Bianchi: Three attacks to the Headquarters (Trinketization)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:25:59 GMT

One If you read the booklet of the Centre for Cultural Studies after being at the college for more than one year, you can understand why the institution has invested in developing an image that wallpapers the reality of the college. When one finally sees the gap created by our confused expectations, the university –the institution- [...]

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“Perfectibilism” in science fiction narratives about biological destiny (Acheron LV-426)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:37:00 GMT

Sci fi author Robert J Sawyer proves himself an eloquent critic of the most reactionary strands of biologism underpinning the genre. I think it fair to say though that many of his points, and the basic underlying approach, will be familiar to anybody versed in the basics of cultural studies type reading methods. But there are still some provocative revelations that make it worth watching...

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Fulbright Award in Identity/Cultural Studies 2009-10 (International Civic Engagement)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:12:06 GMT

The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering four Research Chair awards in Identity, Citizenship, Globalization, and Cultural Studies for 2009-10. These awards provide the opportunity for scholars working in the social sciences or humanities to pursue full-time collaborative or independent research...

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Scorpion Cave (Blog Catalog Blog Directory)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:01:05 GMT

This is a blog of an Americanized Hong Kong girl, whose boyfriend is African-American and wants to major in art history, American Studies, Cultural Studies and journalism. (nerd) She is always an aspiring fashion magazine editor (fashionista!) and en

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conclusion (Posthegemony)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:52:00 GMT

Cultural studies and civil society theory purport to be progressive projects, liberatory alternatives to the dominant social order. Yet cultural studies’ concept of “counter-hegemony” only reinforces all the populist assumptions upon which hegemony rests, leaving the state unquestioned. Likewise, for all its talk of “society against the state,” civil society theory also...

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At-HQ - Sharing some doubts about the creative industries and how these should be addressed by Cultural Studies (Trinketization)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:17:54 GMT

I have to admit that I have far more doubts and questions than certainties or answers about how the whole socio-economic paradigm opened by the creative industries should be addressed by cultural studies. The public discourse around the creative industries officially appeared in the UK in about 1996 and was heavily endorsed by New Labour [...]

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Lashed by the Storm (Solo Femininity)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:05:00 GMT

I am finally reading through a book that was promoted on Justin Taylor's blog earlier this year, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, by Kenneth E. Bailey. I'm only part of the way through it, but I have tremendously enjoyed what I've read so far! I plan to excerpt a few choice bits while I go through the book. Here's one excerpt that I recently quoted to...

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Author Interview: Neal A. Lester on Once Upon a Time in a Different World (cynsations)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:08:00 GMT

Dr. Neal A. Lester , Chair of the Department of English, has been a professor of English at Arizona State University since the fall of 1997. His area of specialization is African American literary and cultural studies. Dr. Lester earned his B.A. in English from State University of West Georgia and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University . How does your own family background...

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Oxbridge watch (The Bristol Blogger)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:58:47 GMT

Further evidence, as if it’s really needed, that the statement, “I studied English at Cambridge” actually means “I’m a thick toff who’s been taught by idiots”. In order to get on down wit da kids daddio and demonstrate their up-to-the-minute cultural studies cred, the ‘elite’ literary academics of Cambridge set this year’s ‘elite’ English scholars a [...]

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Times for reviews (Erkan's field diary)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:13 GMT

I have just finished reading an interview with Stuart Hall. A founding father of Cultural Studies. This is a long, sincere and informative interview and free for all: Stuart Hall's reflections on a life analyzing culture and society An interview...

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AtHQ - Defending the Headquarters (Trinketization)

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:56:22 GMT

Does cultural studies have its own territory that is worthy of being defended? Given that the autonomy of disciplines has been vehemently debated and de facto denied as usefully productive by many, how can cultural studies be the source of any resistance whatsoever without staking out a particularized terrain and theatre of potential operations? (channelling Boris [...]

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Booklists, Yet Again (Semicolon)

Wed, 28 May 2008 05:11:21 GMT

The Telegraph lists their 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library. I’m a sucker for booklists. Josh Sowin at Fire and Knowledge links to his own list of favorites in the following categories: Literature, Reading/Literary Criticism, Biography and Autobiograpy, Cultural Studies, Art and Aesthetics, Food and Agriculture, Science and History, Economics, Finances, Writing, Education, Humor and...

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Have Academics & Bloggers Killed The Critic? (Ethos)

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:01:43 GMT

The issue of whether time and technology have passed the professional critic by is being heatedly debated across all cultural genres. "The culprit is none other than ... cultural studies! By treating literature as an impersonal text from which any...

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