#Stuart Hall

[frenchcurious]

Immeuble 1940, à Armadale, Australie. Conçu par Stuart Hall. (Source des photos realestate com au; crédit au photographe original). - source Sally Jo.

[edwordsmyth]

Edward Said

[i-isa-i]

The songs are about me, actually …

I know swifties have been trained for years and years to read taylor swift’s songs as autobiographical. But idk it just feels so reductive and boring to look for clues about her personal and dating life in order to decode her lyrics. Even if you think the intention of the author is relevant in any way, swift herself said that her songs’ inspirations can’t simply be found via “paternity test”.

But I really don’t think we should care what swift intended the song to mean. I’m begging y’all to consider these lyrics as polysemic texts. First of all, let’s be honest and admit that the persona fed to the public isn’t actually taylor swift and we probably don’t know much about her personal life anyway. So people basically use a fictional character and narrative to apply these songs to. In that case, why not divorce the fictionalized author from the text in the first place? I know we throw around “Death of the author” in fandom spaces all the time but I think it’s something to consider here. Make your own meaning. The songs are about what you want them to be. The songs are about your OTP. The songs are about you.

[ethicopoliticolit]

Almost all the media coverage of AIDS has been aimed at the heterosexual groups now minimally at risk, as if the high-risk groups were not part of the audience. And in a sense, as Watney suggests, they’re not. The media targets “an imaginary national family unit which is both white and heterosexual” (p. 43). This doesn’t mean that most TV viewers in Europe and America are *not* white and heterosexual and part of a family. It does, however, mean, as Stuart Hall argues, that representation is very different from reflection: “It implies the active work of selecting and presenting, of structuring and shaping: not merely the transmitting of already-existing meaning, but the more active labour of *making things mean*” (quoted p. 124). TV doesn't make the family, but it makes the family *mean* in a certain way. That is, it makes an exceptionally sharp distinction between the family as a biological unit and as a cultural identity, and it does this by teaching us the attributes and attitudes by which people who thought they were already in a family actually only *begin to qualify* as belonging to a family. The great power of the media, and especially of television, is, as Watney writes, “its capacity to manufacture subjectivity itself” (p. 125), and in so doing to dictate the shape of an identity. The “general public” is at once an ideological construct and a moral prescription. Furthermore, the definition of the family *as an identity* is, inherently, an exclusionary process, and the cultural product has no obligation whatsoever to coincide exactly with its natural referent. Thus the family identity produced on American television is much more likely to include your dog than your homosexual brother or sister.

—Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (1987)

[drakvuf]

Men only have two moods

[gradling]

The question [about cultural identity] is not who we are but who we can become. The task of theory in relation to the new cultural politics of difference is not to think as we always did, keeping the faith by trying to hold the terrain together through an act of compulsive will, but to learn to think differently.

Stuart Hall, "Nations and Diasporas" in The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation

[holmesoldfellow]

"Sherlock Holmes Writing Set" (Stuart Hall Co. Inc, 1946)

[weil-weil-lautre]

Professor Stuart Hall at the Inaugural Karl Marx Memorial Lecture, Sheffield, 1983

[maggiecheungs]

The Stuart Hall Project (2013)

[davidhudson]

Stuart Hall, February 3, 1932 – February 10, 2014.

Easter 1961 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament March.

[dig-in-your-heels]

man adorno and horkheimer make me want to throw smth but stuart hall?

stuart hall is amazing. he writes simply, effectively. i didn't need to pick up a dictionary(aka my phone) even ONCE when i was doing his reading and i learnt sm. i got to immerse myself in the point he's making w/o being distracted by huge words and i respect him so much for that

academic writing that flows, that's easy to read and understand and yet doesn't dumbify what it's trying to convey can be rare and stuart hall did well at it. <3

[jacobwren]

In Conversation with Stuart Hall

[edwordsmyth]

"Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies? At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook." -Stuart Hall

[gravalicious]

Harry Goulbourne

Paul Thompson - Interview with Harry Goulbourne, Pioneers of Social Research, 1996-2018, UK Data Service.

[certainwoman]

“From such a vantage point, certainly, the study of deviance and of politics have little or nothing to say to one another. Yet events in the real world are increasingly revealing the operational and ideological content of this formal proposition about politics. From the normative point of view, all political action which is not expressed via the electoral process, which does not contribute to the maintenance of party apparatuses, and is not governed by procedural norms is, by definition, deviant with respect to politics.But, as in all labeling theory, the question is, who defines which action belongs where? Operationally, the maintenance of boundaries between "politics" and "non-politics" and the casting of certain "political" acts into the "non-political" domain, are themselves political acts, and reflect the structure of power and interest. These acts of labeling in the political domain, far from being self-evident, or a law of the natural world, constitute a form of continuing political "work" on the part of the elites of power: they are, indeed, often the opening salvo in the whole process of political control.

The crisp distinction between socially and politically deviant behavior is increasingly difficult to sustain. There are at least five reasons for this. First, many socially deviant groups are being politicized. Secondly, political activist groups are frequently also "deviant" in life-style and values. Thirdly, the "politics" of deviant groups has, in contrast with the more "objective" content of traditional class politics, a distinctive cultural or existential content: their dissociation from the status quo is expressed as much in cultural attitudes, ideology, and life-style, as in program or economic disadvantage. Fourthly, the collective organization and activities of such political minorities have had the effect of transferring some questions from the "social problem" to the "political issue" category. In this way the hidden political element inside deviant behavior is rendered transparent, and the map of social deviance is altered. Fifthly, under pressure from events, the consensual nature of sociological theory-to which the earlier forms of deviant theory of, say, the Mertonian variety, belonged-has been polarized and fragmented.” Models of social action predicated on the assumption of an integrative and self-regulative functional social order are progressively challenged by models in which, precisely, the internal cohesiveness of the 'social system' and its ability to "tension manage" dissidents and deviants are rendered problematic. The elaboration of such counter-theories clearly apply in equal measure to the analysis of socially deviant and politically conflictful behavior. Thus, at different levels, both of action and theory, new, more radical perspectives on the phenomenon of deviance have opened up, in which hard-and-fast distinctions between deviance and politics are weakened."

Stuart Hall, Deviance, Politics, and the Media

[dirtwatching]

getting asked to verify my identity for my order of stuart hall books. ironic.