Monthly Archives: September 2010
Equation
Althusser = (Gramsci + Foucault) – (Historical Research + Nuance)
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The cultural turn
Haven’t we had “cultural turns” before? The Renaissance, Romanticism, High Modernism, The Progressive Era, “The 60′s”. Any period in which culture comes to play a direct role in politics and vice versa amounts to a cultural turn. Intellectuals begin imagining … Continue reading
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Food for thought
I may think about this and respond/comment at some point, but for now I simply want to put it out there: “Man as individual and man as mass. The Latin proverb ‘Senatores boni viri, senatus mala bestia’ has become a … Continue reading
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A quick note on the inevitability of the same damn arguments
Reading Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, one comes across the same debates going on in Gramsci’s time as are currently going on today. Not only are the debates identical in theme, they are the same down to the positions taken and the … Continue reading
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Political Speech
“Critical” analysis of political speech should always operate under the following assumption: the purpose of all political speech (with the exception of political speeches made when a candidate leaves office, assuming that candidate isn’t trying to obtain a higher office) … Continue reading
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