The Local, The Global, & The Return to Campus

I read “The Local, The Global, & The Return to Ethnicity" with the same look of envy I unconsciously adopt whenever studying a piece of Stuart Hall's writing: how does he always discuss complex topics with such concise sophistication?

Anyway, onto the question. Hall's reference to (and development of) Anderson's concept of an imagined community (626) reminded me, of course, of Donald's Trump's pledge to Make America Great Again and Vote Leave's demand to "Take Back Control" during the Brexit referendum. Take back what? From whom? Why? The details, naturally, will be figured out later.

My question asks:

When discursive strategies such as these are weaponized by the right—during elections, referendums, or to drum up support for toxic anti-immigration policies—what tools do those on the left have to counter narratives centered upon invented traditions and foundational myths?

Glenn H

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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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