Week 8 - Ang

 Building from last week, Hall talks about Black cultural politics and the shift from representation to a politics of representation - an extremely “slippery customer” as Hall says (444). This slipperiness comes about from the diversity of historical/cultural Black experiences and the way to capture such diversity of subject positions. Hall writes: “This does not make it any easier to conceive of how a politics can be constructed which works with and through difference, which is able to build those forms of solidarity and identification which make common struggle and resistance possible but without suppressing the real heterogeneity of interests and identities, and which can effectively draw the political boundary lines without which political contestation is impossible, without fixing those boundaries for eternity” (a long quote, I know, but useful for me, 445). What examples, like the films Hall discusses, encompass + reflect this shift today? Has there been another shift (to the shift)? How do we define/understand difference today? 

I would also like to dive into the concept of passive revolutions more!!