(darryl) axe to fall

This is the first time in a while that I've gotten to read Stuart Hall's thoughts and not feel as if I was being bludgeoned.

I think this was the perfect text for this time in the course, a moment to absorb the thoughts of two people literally conversing and not just via articles.

My question for the week deals with hooks and their recounting of their particularly vicious critique of Oprah Winfrey. She said something that was perceived as rather aggressive and violent. Subsequently:

Is there a place for incisive, aggressive language in cultural critique? In the era of the demonization of so-called "cancel culture," are we truly seeing an age in which questions or critique must be carefully couched--needless or otherwise?

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On Journals and Prose

My two questions from this week have emerged from the Judith Butler piece, A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back , both centered around the journal, Philosophy and Literature —which Butler describes as the self-proclaimed “arbiter of good prose.” I agree with Butler’s staunch defense of questioning common sense and provoking “new ways of looking at a familiar world”, and was reminded of David Harvey’s quote in the introduction to his Companion to Marx’s Capital : “Real learning always entails a struggle to understand the unknown.” Butler describes Philosophy and Literature as a “culturally conservative academic journal” which naturally led me down a longer-than-anticipated visit to the journal's website . I was greeted with a video presented by the Philosophy and Literature’s editor Garry L. Hagberg, who rails against the “jargon infested” work that litters the journal’s field, locating Philosophy and Literature in clear opposition to such bothersome clutter. However, Hagberg...

Stuart Hall 2022 Seminar

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