51 research outputs found
Book review: cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history by Stuart Hall (edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack and Lawrence Grossberg)
No full textCultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History offers a posthumous collection of lectures by influential cultural theorist Stuart Hall, given to students at the University of Illinois in 1983, covering such topics as the formation of Cultural Studies as a ‘political project’ and Hall’s theorisation of hegemony. Edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack and Lawrence Grossberg, Hall’s insights feel fresh, galvanising and both timeless and timely, writes Sofia Ropek Hewson, underscoring the importance of long-term political struggle as ‘the work we need to do’ – and positioning Cultural Studies at the heart of this
Cultural Studies in Black and White
No full text© 2016, © Jennifer Daryl Slack 2016. All Rights Reserved. Political intervention is deeply etched in the history and theory of Cultural Studies. The vehicle of intervention is typically understood as textual and the measure of success as ‘has it changed the world?’ This graphic and textual essay argues for and enacts thinking of and practising intervention more innovatively and more modestly: as equally extra-textual, and as a site for experimentation in the folds among theory, practice, and the quotidian. The author’s original black and white charcoal and pastel images are paired with text to explore the potential for an articulation of the visual and the textual to engage, convey, actualize, and produce concepts and insights of Cultural Studies. In evocative images and accessible language it enacts a new mode of engaging the theory and practice of Cultural Studies, specifically engaging concepts of articulation and assemblage, movement and things, questions of identity, the importance of affect, the power of transformation, youth cultures and resistance, The Black Lives Matter movement and matters of race, the struggles of women, the challenge of overcoming culturally engendered hatred of difference, and the difficulties of negotiating change in the precarious circumstances of contemporary culture
The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority
No full textThe authors explore the parallels to be found by comparing descriptions of the technical communicator with differing views of the communication process—the transmission, translation, and articulation views of communication. In each of these views, the place of the technical communicator and of technical discourse shifts with respect to the production of meaning and relations of power. The authors argue from the standpoint of the articulation view for a new conception of the technical communicator as author and of technical communication as a discourse that produces an author. © 1993, SAGE PERIODICALS PRESS. All rights reserved
Communication Technologies and Society: Causality and Intervention
No full textThis study critiques current notions of and perspectives on communication technologies in order to demonstrate that such are inadequate as bases for critical and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between communication technologies and society and as bases for effective strategies for technological intervention. Out of the desire to control technological growth and the effects--both beneficial and deleterious--of technologies, three approaches have assumed paramount importance: Technology Assessment, Alternative Technology, and Luddism. These three are examined in depth and their failings explained, in part, in terms of the concepts of causality embedded in their analyses and practice. In contrast to inadequate conceptions of causality--simple, symptomatic, and expressive--a theory of structural causality, as developed by the French philosopher Louis Althusser, is explicated. By utilizing a model of causality as structural it is possible to overcome the deficiencies of the previous models and form the basis for a critical and comprehensive inquiry into the relationship between communication technologies and society and subsequent strategies for intervention. By applying structural causality to a concrete instance--the relationship between patent law and the invention and innovation of communication technologies--this study demonstrates the explanatory power of a structural causal approach in analyzing the relationship between the social formation and communication technologies. On the basis of this analysis, the study concludes that the only effective strategy of intervention in the relationship between patent law and the invention and innovation of communication technologies is one that seeks as its goal the abolition of property rights in invention. The study concludes with a discussion of the consequences of using a conception of causality as structural for the concept of communications revolutions, and more specifically for the concept of the information revolution.Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:19:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1981Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 78310
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Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsU of I Only184 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981
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