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The spatial organization of culture, economics and politics: The architecture and political economy of Fordism and global Fordism
No full textCultural Studies has developed a coherent set of analytical methods and political assumptions which are articulated to one another at the site of the text. The author disputes this articulation, arguing that in both method as well as assumption Cultural Studies duplicates early-modern political philosophy, and thus the political assumptions of the liberal state--which the discipline on the whole stands in critique of. A cultural model based on the distributive patterns of material activities is proposed. This model is discussed in relation to developments in political economy ca. 1945-1990, and the effect of these developments upon urban and architectural space.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:59:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1994Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T15:01:40Z
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Terror and everyday life: A history of horror
No full textThis dissertation aims to locate the power and popularity of contemporary horror films in terms of a response to post-modernity. Present-day horror films only make sense, can only be enjoyed, when read as spectacularly excessive productions overtly concerned with the everyday experience of post-modernity.The body of research done on the horror film genre has been based on psycho-analytic/transcendental models which are inappropriate starting points, if the slasher film and others of its infamous ilk, are to be read as measures of change in everyday life. Consequently, after a brief overview detailing the nature of contemporary existence, the dissertation begins with a critique of transcendental/psycho-analytic approaches to understanding cinematic horror.Following the survey of alternatives to post-modern film reviewing, the dissertation offers readings of four classic films in horror history: Nosferatu (1921), Frankenstein (1931), Them! (1954), and Friday the 13th (1980). As everyday life changed and continues to be transformed, these readings demonstrate where and when the meaning and apprehension of horror also mutated. These texts also demonstrate where psycho-analytic/transcendental models of the audience member, fail to explain horror films fascination with events located outside the purview of psychic drives.The dissertation concludes with the argument that, as post-modernity and post-modernism define how we live and think, horror films offer a clear and bleak avenue to understanding everyday life.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:44:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1991Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:58:33Z
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"Unstable frontiers: Medicine, the media, and the cultural politics of ""curing"" AIDS"
No full text"This study examines how AIDS treatment issues (e.g. the politics of biomedical research, social representations of the ""AIDS body,"" the alternative treatment movement, AIDS treatment activism) are represented in the media, and argues that the overall discourse of ""curing AIDS"" is organized around the totalizing and contradictory narratives of AIDS' curability/incurability, and that this binaristic mode of thinking has important historical--in fact, ""conjunctural""--effects upon mainstream medicine's historical position of authority."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:04:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1992Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:49:46Z
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
No full text"This study maps the invention, circulation and regulation of the population crisis from 1945 to 1995. I conceptualize the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary theoretical concern of this project is to describe how the population crisis emerged as a particular ""governmental technology"" dedicated to policing reproductive behaviors. As a cultural history, this study will analyze how the population crisis, as a policy formation, problematized and publicized the habits, morals and manners of specific populations in order to regulate population growth. This study tracks both an international and a national trajectory in the circulation of the population crisis. Internationally, I focus on the relationship between the United States and the United Nations in the creation of the population crisis. In particular, I focus on how the United States emerged as a leader in distributing demographic and family planning expertise as a means to invent, study and disarm the population bomb. Nationally, I focus on how the population formation targeted poor populations, African-American city populations, and middle class populations in the United States. I conclude this project by mapping the elements that are currently re-organizing the governing techniques of the population formation as Malthus prepares to travel to the twenty-first century."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:29:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1995Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T15:07:20Z
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Columbus' imaginary: A critique of post-colonial identity
No full textThis study examines the construction and negotiation of post-colonial identity in everyday life. Specifically, it addresses the mechanisms and practices by which a community of immigrants to the U.S. from the Indian subcontinent comes to terms with its self-representation(s). The analysis uses ethnography as a mode of theorizing problems of experience and subjectivity in the context of a globalized world. The project is poised at the interstices of critical theory, post-colonial scholarship, and marxist cultural criticism. The overall attempt is to account for the ways in which domains of daily life both constrain and enable the emergence of a particular formation of post-colonial subjecthood within the metropolitan location of the United States. The study thus seeks to intervene in contemporary debates on the status of 'local' discourses (of, for example, identity and experience) in the constitution of global subjectivities. It also proposes that the consolidation of post-colonial identity represents a vexed case in current discussions of the predicament of modernity.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:02:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Deconstructing communication
No full text"This dissertation develops a deconstructive critique of the philosophical foundation underlying modern communication theories as they have been developed in the Anglo-American tradition since the early part of this century. It is divided into two parts. The first part begins with a critical analysis of Husserl's theory of intersubjectivity (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 reconstructs the problematic of communication in terms of Derrida's notion of the ""postal principle."" The first part concludes with an existential-ontological interpretation of communication as an absolute mediation between man and world. In the second part, an exposition of deconstruction is first introduced by way of a comparative analysis of Heidegger and Derrida (Chapter 4). The final Chapter demonstrates how and why the ""postal principle"" which establishes the condition of possibility of communication comes to undermine itself. The dissertation concludes by defending the ""positive"" contribution of the Derridean practice to critical communication theories."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:46:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1990Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:45:39Z
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
No full textThis study maps the invention, circulation and regulation of the population crisis from 1945 to 1995. I conceptualize the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary theoretical concern of this project is to describe how the population crisis emerged as a particular "governmental technology" dedicated to policing reproductive behaviors. As a cultural history, this study will analyze how the population crisis, as a policy formation, problematized and publicized the habits, morals and manners of specific populations in order to regulate population growth. This study tracks both an international and a national trajectory in the circulation of the population crisis. Internationally, I focus on the relationship between the United States and the United Nations in the creation of the population crisis. In particular, I focus on how the United States emerged as a leader in distributing demographic and family planning expertise as a means to invent, study and disarm the population bomb. Nationally, I focus on how the population formation targeted poor populations, African-American city populations, and middle class populations in the United States. I conclude this project by mapping the elements that are currently re-organizing the governing techniques of the population formation as Malthus prepares to travel to the twenty-first century.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio
The pop art/rock and roll connection: The impact of Andy Warhol on rock and roll style
No full text"The dissertation provides a case study and an analytical account of Andy Warhol's impact on rock and roll style. It first examines the rise of pop art as a form and ethos in America during the 1960s. In so doing it focuses specifically on the art, film, and sculpture projects of Warhol and the subsequent subculture that emerged at his Factory studio. Next, the dissertation describes the influence that Warhol and his subculture had on ""glitter rock"" musicians of the 1970s, most of whom were directly inspired by Warhol and his followers. The case study concludes with an explanation of ways glitter rock helped to form and create a widespread and highly visible youth subculture in both the United States and Great Britain in the 1970s."The theoretical chapters that follow the case study both explain and analyze the body of work on youth subcultures that has emerged from the Center For Contemporary Cultural Studies in Britain. By pointing to some of the theoretical shortcomings of British cultural studies the dissertation offers a reconceptualization of the major concepts found in cultural studies analyses of youth subcultures. It concludes by offering a theory of production and a method for contextualizing British subculture theory in relation to American youth subcultures.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:49:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A critical approach to understanding agency in meaning construction in material consumption: An attempt to synthesize insights of cultural theorists with empirical studies
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Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionPopular belief maintains that the phenomenal rise of material consumption can be accounted for by the deception inflicted on unsuspecting individuals by marketing and advertising. The consumer is often depicted as helpless and manipulated. This thesis examines the agency of individuals as they engage in the inevitable act of material consumption."Based on the three broad theoretical perspectives evident in the writings of critical theorists on material consumption, this thesis proposes three fundamental consumption modes corresponding to the ways in which one negotiates the meanings supplied by marketing and advertising. When individuals ""accept"" these meanings, they engage in ""consensual consumption."" When they reject them and create their own, they display ""oppositional consumption."" When consumers ""manipulate"" the meanings provided to draw some personal benefit, they give evidence of ""social"" or ""negotiated consumption."""A standardized survey was administered to 496 high school and college students, the majority of whom live in the Midwest. Based on consumer research, the instrument included pre-validated measures and items developed specifically to gauge the proposed meaning trajectories. Statistical analysis revealed three modes of consumption which are manifestations of the three ways in which individuals exhibit their agency in meaning making. Among the predictors that shape these modes, materialism and self expression emerge as the most crucial. Quantitative research also uncovered specific consumer types.To supplement the quantitative approach, the life history technique was applied to the same sample. Overall findings confirm the conclusions of the quantitative strategy and disclose certain nuances of meaning not contemplated by the survey. The qualitative study also provided a clearer indication of the interplay between internal and external agencies in meaning making and painted clearer portraits of certain typical consumption styles. Thus both the quantitative and the qualitative approaches hark back to the three theoretical perspectives which constituted their original launching pad.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:01:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1995ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I Onl
Reading Ideology in Discourse: A History, Theory, and Case Study
No full textThe author argues that in the field of modern American rhetorical criticism the concept of ideology and the practice of ideologiekritik have been repressed subjects, the focus of a persistent strategy of containment. Rhetorical criticism has repeatedly flirted with the domain of ideologiekritik, but some concept other than ideology has invariably been offered as an analytical substitute; e.g., values, ideas, symbolic systems, etc. However, such concepts do not carry the critical thrust of ideology. Lost in the translation of ideology into the philosophy of myth, fantasy themes, etc., is the critical perception of the forces of power and domination and the means through which they are instituted in the social system. This is a significant feature of the concept of ideology, a term whose articulation immediately signifies relations to knowledge, power and domination. The critical work performed by this concept--identifying relations of power inscribed in discourse, their operation and impact on consciousness, action, and social order--either does not get done in rhetorical criticism, or is re-cast in terms which obscure the concrete, real struggles taking place between human beings at the level of cultural practice.The first half of the dissertation is an historical account of the concept of ideology in social science and in modern rhetorical criticism. Building on the critique of ideology analysis in rhetorical criticism, the second half attempts to develop a materialist-semiotic reading of ideology in a rhetorical text. The text selected for reading is a free circulation, shopper-type newspaper distributed in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. An institutional analysis of the free paper industry is undertaken, and the kinds of ideology one would expect to find in a free paper given its institutional structuring is discussed. The specific textual readings are preceded by an account of the paper's local institutional context and by a content analysis of its cover stories. This gives an empirical profile of the publication. The author concludes with a materialist-semiotic reading of three separate cover story articles, a reading that demonstrates the operation of ideology in and through discourse.Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:38:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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