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Nov. 19th, 2007 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHave done assigned reading for class! Wheee! Only took me until monday. Kept falling asleep :-/
It's interesting though. About hegemony as conflict, culture formed in conflict, and how global and local interact in complex and contradictory ways that cannot be reduced to some simple binary of authenticity.
Neat.
Words is always fighting words. Cultural Studies lesson the first.
Lesson the second is: Take a highlighter, and color in all the gaps. Between words, between lines, behid what they're saying into what they're trying not to say.
Lesson the third is how identities are always plural and in process, never singular and stable. Can't say local vs global or nation vs nation because within nations there's gender sexuality race ethnicity class (dis)ability and generation, and within each of those words there's all the others, and you can't divide them up and say 'this one word here IS this one person'. And every single word is - lesson the first - an argument.
I like cultural studies.
It's interesting though. About hegemony as conflict, culture formed in conflict, and how global and local interact in complex and contradictory ways that cannot be reduced to some simple binary of authenticity.
Neat.
Words is always fighting words. Cultural Studies lesson the first.
Lesson the second is: Take a highlighter, and color in all the gaps. Between words, between lines, behid what they're saying into what they're trying not to say.
Lesson the third is how identities are always plural and in process, never singular and stable. Can't say local vs global or nation vs nation because within nations there's gender sexuality race ethnicity class (dis)ability and generation, and within each of those words there's all the others, and you can't divide them up and say 'this one word here IS this one person'. And every single word is - lesson the first - an argument.
I like cultural studies.