As I read these articles and interviews, one thought repeats on an endless loop in my brain: "I need to read more." Having read very little Baudrillard, a little more Gramsci, but virtually no Habermas, Lyotard, or many of the other names Hall casually cites (not drops, not invokes, but cites-- in an interview ), I spend more time reserving books to check out for context than I do reading the main text. I'm drawn to Hall's remark on the "collapse of the French Intelligentsia during the [1980s-mid-1990s]," in which he talks about how Baudrillard et al were quick to declare "when and for whom history ends, how the masses can or cannot be represented, when they are or not a real historical force," and so on, largely because of what we're witnessing in Eastern Europe vis-a-vis the USA/Russian stand-off. In 2003, as Iraq War 2: Halliburton Boogaloo jumped off, I (somewhat melodramatically) called it the "Death of America," by which I simp...
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