(Due to a computer accident I lost all posts and submissions sent to me
earlier this year with reference to my proposed Cultural Studies session
Culture, Subordination, Emancipation. May I ask the colleagues and graduate
students who proposed papers to re-submit them?)
Fifth International English Culture Conference
Lisbon, Nov 28-29-30, 2001
CULTURE AND FREEDOM
Proposed Cultural Studies session
Culture, subordination, emancipation
I'm organising a Cultural Studies session within the Fifth International
English Culture Conference, in Lisbon. It'll be a 110/120-minute
session, with 4 or 5 papers, dealing with the problematic Lawrence
Grossberg foregrounded when he wrote, in "The Victory of Culture"
(_Angelaki_3:3, 1998, p. 8-9) that in modernity
'Power became a psychological matter of belief and interpretation. The
consent to the rule of the dominant fractions was now to be secured by
changing the ways that subordinate populations thought about their lives
and the world, by making them think and even act, within the limits of
their resources, more like the ruling bloc. Thus, with modernity comes
ideology as the primary motor of power. Suddenly, culture has not only
entered the scene, it has come to define it as well'.
And Habermas argued that 'a differentiated reconnection of modern
culture with an everyday sphere of praxis that is dependent on a living
heritage and yet is impoverished by mere traditionalism will admittedly
only prove successful if the process of social modernization can also be
turned into other non-capitalist directions, if the lifeworld can
develop institutions of its own in a way currently inhibited by the
autonomous systemic dynamics of the economic and administrative system'
("Modernity: An Unfinished Project").
I invite papers exploring the possibilities, in terms of historical
projects, institutions and experiences, of oppositional and/or
alternative cultural formations -- in their necessary relations with the
national high culture and its forms and modes of hegemony and
incorporation -- effectively moving away from the subordination to
culture as the motor of power and producing practices of emancipation.
Please address your 150-200 word proposals to me at
<ferpi@mail.telepac.pt>
The deadline is June 30, 2001
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