Cultural Studies Course 4

7/29/2019 Cultural Studies Course 4

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TIME

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE


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The past

History does not explain the contemporary

because it is too selective and partial

Representation of past are always

arbitrary

The present is nothing except a

representation of the past

Habit


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The past

History knowledge about the past and thepast as such

History as knowledge and history as event

Modern history no more providence

the French Revolution

archives Ethics

History as progress


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The past

2 views

progressive and non-progressive

Historicism the past as fundamentallyother

Plea

For the modern view history accounts forthe present sure of defamiliarisation

It teaches us other ways of doing things


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The past

History as conservation, preservation,

museification as it carries values of

European modernity

Conservatism - Edmund Burke Reflections

on the Revolution in France (1790)

Civilised national heritage (cultural history) vs.

enlightened radical social policy (reason)


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The past

- Black armband history

Representation of past in contemporary

leisure culture

a retreat from the difficult, uncertain

present or an investment of large

resources in preserving the past

E.g. golden oldie stations, TV reruns, old

movies


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The past

History fans antiquarianism (the British

and American Civil War)

TV documentaries

Historical fiction (Barbara Cartland)

History and fiction

Ground of identity genealogy


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The past

Historical a basis of identity for ethnicitiesand nations - slavery for African

Americans, colonisation, the Blitz for

Londoners Nostalgia for the past a sign of past

weakening

The Heritage Industry , cultural memorycomercialised modes of presentation anidealised view of the past


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The past

History as injury public and private

Public the Holocaust, Korean women,

the stolen generation

US military returning from Vietnam Post

Traumatic Stress Disorder


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THE PRESENT

Presentism

Contemporary the zero through which thefuture becomes the past, the plenitude in whichour lives occur

Modernity starts with the French Revolution andthe Holocaust or the mythical traditional Englishvillage

Present relates to the future China will become

more powerful The parcel of past time that we recognise as

belonging to us now


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THE PRESENT

R. Williams

1. the residual current formations whichwere inherited from the past but have little

future 2. the dominant (formations that control

the present)

3. the emergent (formations have notattained the full development andinfluence)


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THE PRESENT

Relationship between contemporary,

youth, fashion and cultural studies

The contemporary is changing faster than

before?

There is no more unified and agreed set of

terms to analyse the contemporary


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THE PRESENT

Much info: market research social maps

of desire, the geography of crime,

economic geographies, electoral

boundaries, plant and animal habitats(every surviving individual has a name)


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THE PRESENT

ModernismV. Woolf human nature changed around1910

Modernism - a break with realism towardsexperimentation

A less moralistic attitude towards sexuality

new relations between classes Increasing tolerance for state intervention

in peoples welfare


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THE PRESENT

Postmodernism

Womens movement, rise of neoliberalism, end of the Cold War, the

collapse of socialist ideals, decline of classas marker of identity and culturaldifference

TV becomes a core media, extension oftertiary education

Great art a commodity


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THE PRESENT

A relationship between the decline of

colonialism and the jeopardy in which

progressivism and rationality are?

History is associated with relativism

Postmodern politics appeals to desires

and needs that are media constructs e.g.

US Presidentactor


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THE FUTURE

M. Arnold culture is a seedbed for social

change

R. Williams culture way of progressive

socialist view of the future

Foucault downgraded progressivism

history a passage of abrupt transitions

rather than a continous flow


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THE FUTURE

Forecasting the future is the result ofpresent action

Future can be controlled and if not, at least

known Futuristic images science fiction -

projections of the present in which they

were created We re living in the future now major

publicity campaigns for new technologies


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THE FUTURE

Time travels in future to preserve the past

Or the present every day opens to the

future

Dystopian societies are often imagined as

police states, with unlimited power over

the citizens.


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THE FUTURE

Cultural policy

August Comte and Saint Simon planningthe future society

Foucault modern power empowers andforms subjects typically by governmentprocesses

J. Fichte and von Humboldt philosophersand theorists involved in policy makingand administration


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THE FUTURE

Causes of cultural politics

- growing importance of cultural industry

(cultural tourism), perceived threats to

national culture, backclash against

subsidies high art and governmentally

endorsed and managed multiculturalism


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THE FUTURE

The appearance of creative industries(copyright industries) leisure and culturalinterests developed via public privates

partnerships: art centres, comedyfestivals, walking trails, libraries, fashionshows, public artworks

Multiculturalism encouragement \ofdifferent cultures within one nations ates)and


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The future

Multiculturalism encouragement of

different cultures within one nations states

Cultural diversity openness to different

cultural global flows

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