Culture, Politics, and Governing: Contemporary Ascetics and the Pecuniary Subject

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Mooney Nickel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
A Site

In Culture, Politics, and Governing, the study of contemporary ascetics provided me with a way to approach the practice of knowledge production and its intersection with cultural production that was able to take into account the institutionalization of authors and artists and the ways in which their practices were both governed and governing, often through valorization. Recently, I have worked to extend this framework to settings that are less obvious as sites for the production of governing knowledge: what Max Weber and Foucault discussed as ascetics, generated through what Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno called the culture industry. The contemporary culture industry produces an art of living genre that encourages pecuniary subjects who treat the self as a site for the production of value from which to practice valorized ascetics.

The Psyche in Late Capitalism I

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Y. Fong
Keyword(s):  
Culture Industry ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Drive Theory

Employs the drive theory developed in the first three chapters toward a reinterpretation of the culture industry thesis of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

scholarly journals Gordon Rohlehr and the Culture Industry in Trinidad

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Raymond Ramcharitar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Alternative Sexualities ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Cyber Culture

The terms "culture" and "cultural studies" in Trinidad and Tobago have been narrowly defined to mean Carnival and various other phenomena connected to the nationalist project. There has been little acknowledgement of cyber culture, alternative sexualities, consumerism, media, and in general the "Culture Industry", as theorised by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. One critic, Gordon Rohlehr, has over decades presented a body of work ostensibly focused on Carnival, but which also contains a cogent critique and outline of the Trinidad and Tobago Culture Industry (as contemplated by Adorno). A close reading of Rohlehr's work, and his intellectual antecedents, reveal a compelling critique of the Trinidadian/West Indian notion and practice of culture and cultural studies, and suggests areas for the discipline's expansion to better serve the needs of the region.

Queer Political Astrology

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Alexa Winstanley-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Western World ◽  
Therapeutic Alternative ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Aby Warburg ◽  
Political Scene

The resurgence of fascism has quickly become an unavoidable fact of the Western world. Perhaps it comes as no surprise to today’s inheritors of cultural studies and critical theory that astrology has made its own comeback; however, it has made its comeback with a difference. The vanguard of today’s astrological movement is led by the queer Left. Uprooted from its role as fate’s theological handmaiden for mounting figures of authority and apparently removed from the (implicitly heterosexual) reproductive model of a mainstream “culture industry,” queer astrology has come to the fore as an antitraditionalist, anticonservative mode of rethinking human biography in community. The queer astrological model of self-understanding and self-analysis has potential: it is not held in thrall to the perpetually outmoded biological paradigms of scientific “fact,” nor does it require cleaving to secularized but still-fraught figures for the self such as the “martyr,” the “saint,” or the “heretic.” Queer astrology unquestionably breaks the fearful mold beheld by critics like Aby Warburg and Theodor Adorno. But is it political? And if it is, how so? What are its potentials? How do we construe a queer astrological politics that is capable of mounting more than a therapeutic alternative to tradition — one that can play an activist role in a political scene that has already donned the kitsch comb-over of that tabloid credential to which tawdry horoscopes once made their claims?

Management Education in a “Post-Truth” World: Critical Theory’s Contribution to Addressing Disruptions to Learning and Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 105256292110086
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Welcomer ◽  
Mark E. Haggerty ◽  
Linda M. Sama
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere

Post-truth poses deep challenges for educators and learners as classrooms are disrupted by the erosion of the status of facts, technologically driven information sourcing, and increasing incivility in the public sphere. These disruptions manifest behaviorally and conceptually and, we argue, can potentially radically realign learning and decision-making landscapes at local classroom levels as well as societal levels, conditioning learners to knowledge systems controlled and curated by powerful interests, threatening students’ ability to function as citizens in a democracy. We analyze these disruptions using the work of Theodor Adorno and Jurgen Habermas and highlight Habermas’s focus on communication and Adorno’s elucidation of cultural production via the culture industry. Using these perspectives, we underline the urgency of responding to post-truth shifts and suggest a framework of practices for educators to consider as they confront these post-truth disruptions.

A EDUCAÇÃO EM GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, JÜRGEN HABERMAS E A TEORIA HERMENÊUTICO-CRÍTICA: tendências, desafios e perspectivas para uma prática pedagógica emancipatória

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlene Santos Mafra Medeiros ◽  
Rita Maria Radl-Phillipp ◽  
José Gilliard Santos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theodor Adorno

O artigo em questão apresenta a construção coletiva de uma proposta pedagógica para a Escola Estadual Joaquim José de Medeiros, localizada na cidade de Cruzeta, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, e possui como base epistemológica a teoria social de George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas e a teoria crítica da educação da Escola de Frankfurt, nas perspectivas de Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2003), Jürgen Habermas (2012); e, atualmente, de pesquisadores contemporâneos como Freire (2009), Radl-Philipp (1996, 1998, 2014), Bannell (2006), Pucci (2006), Santos (2007), Medeiros (2010-1016), Casagrande (2014) dentre outros autores que estudam Mead e as teorias críticas numa perspectiva emancipatória.

Muslim Women and the Politics of Representation

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmin Zine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Feminist Writing ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Relations Of Power

This paper examines the politics of knowledge production as it relates to Muslim women in western literary traditions and con­temporary feminist writing, with a view to understanding the political, ideological, and economic mediations that have histor­ically framed these representations. The meta-narrative of the Muslim woman has shifted from the bold queens of medieval lit­erature to colonial images of the seraglio's veiled, secluded, and oppressed women. Contemporary feminist writing and popular culture have reproduced the colonial motifs of Muslim women, and these have regained currency in the aftermath of9/1 l. Drawing upon the work of Mohja Kahf, this paper begins by mapping the evolution of the Muslim woman archetype in western literary traditions. The paper then examines how some contemporary feminist literature has reproduced in new ways the discursive tropes that have had historical currency in Muslim women's textual representation. The analysis is atten­tive to the ways in which the cultural production of knowledge about Muslim women has been implicated historically by the relations of power between the Muslim world and the West ...

Postmodern Poe

2018 ◽  
pp. 717-734
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Culture

This chapter addresses Edgar Allan Poe’s relation to postmodernism in three parts. It first considers the postmodern elements of Poe’s writing with an emphasis on hoaxes, metafictional self-referentiality, fragmentation, and an overall postmodern suspicion of metanarratives. Next it offers an overview of how Poe’s fiction has been used by poststructuralist theorists—notably, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Barbara Johnson—as well as critics including Dennis Pahl, Michael J. S. Williams, J. Gerald Kennedy, and Louis A. Renza, to illustrate poststructuralist claims about the nature of the self and language. Finally, it explores how the postmodern elements present in Poe’s fiction make him attractive to modern sensibilities. This final section considers the commodification not just of Poe’s writing but of Poe himself—how his biography and image themselves become postmodern narratives available for appropriation and exploitation in the contemporary culture of the Gothic.

ON “NARCISSISM“ IN POETRY. ON TWO CONTEMPORARY SLOVAK AUTHORS

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Irena DIMOVA
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Text Generation ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Other Hand

The proposed article examines two problems – the poetic formations (generations and groups) and the manifestations of "narcissism" in poetry. Two Slovak authors, representatives of different literary formations, are analyzed - Michal Habaj of the so-called Text Generation and Katarína Kucbelová of the ANesthetic Generation. Both their affiliation to these creative associations and the nature of the latter is discussed. In order to understand these literary phenomena, we use Karl Mannheim’s concept of generation and Michał Głowiński’s approach to literary groups. The interpretation of selected texts by the two poets is based on the view of contemporary culture as a "culture of narcissism" (Kr. Lash) and on the reflection on this concept, which we find in a literary-critical article by Katarína Kucbelová herself on Michal Habaj. Her reflection on the fragile boundary between narcissism as a theme and narcissism as deficiency of interpreted work we try to apply on her own poetry texts. The selected poems are from her poetry book “Duals” (Duály), which identifies her as part of the so-called ‘new sincerity’ in Slovak literature. In her texts, Katarína Kucbelová thematizes the closure of the lyrical self within its own existence, in which the presence of the other is allowed only as a concept or an idea. Michal Habaj's experimentalism in “Poems for Dead Girls” (Básne pre mŕtve dievčatá), on the other hand, "opens" his textual world, binds him to many discourses and distances him from the self.

The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-211
Author(s):  
Ashjan Ajour
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Principal Tool ◽  
A Site

Abstract This article explores the body as a site of subjectivity production during a hunger strike in Occupied Palestine. It further explores the former political prisoners’ theory of subjectivity as it emerges through their praxis and philosophy of freedom. Although the body is the principal tool that the hunger strikers use, they don't consider it the decisive factor in attaining their goal. For that they build on the immaterial strength that develops with the deterioration of the body and from which they construct the concept of rouh (soul). This is expressed through the formation of contradictory binaries: body versus soul and body versus mind. The article shows that the hunger strike not only is a political strategy for liberation; it also moves into a spiritualization of the struggle. It uses and problematizes Foucault's “technologies of the self” to theorize the specific formation of subjectivity in the Palestinian hunger strike under colonial conditions, and it contributes to theories of subjectivation. The hunger strikers, in their interaction with the dispossession of the colonial power, invent technologies of resistance to transcend the colonial and carceral constraints on their freedom and create the capacity for the transformation from a submissive subject to a resistant one.

Sacha Levy’s unorthodox kindness: Holby City’s medicine and pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ferguson ◽  
Carolann North
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Availability ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Pedagogical Development ◽  
Television Media ◽  
A Site ◽  
Medical Drama ◽  
Religious Spirituality

Holby City (1999–present) is a stalwart of British television media. Since its conception in 1999, the show has continued to attract contemporary audiences who tune in to passively, and passionately, experience turbulent battles between life and death. However, the locus of interest is not on the patients within Holby’s wings, but rather the staff themselves; it is their emotional, psychological and pedagogical development which spurs the plot forward and grips viewer attention. Through the use of medical pedagogy, Holby City becomes a drama of perpetual Bildungsromane, where relationships between peers, mentors and mentees are under consistent pressure. Furthermore, this pedagogy does not merely ensure Holby City’s series continuation but becomes a site of transformation, challenging preconceived ideologies of toxic masculinity. This is never more apparent than in the character of Sacha Levy (Bob Barrett), whose emotional availability, vulnerability and religious spirituality directly challenge concepts of the self-destructive ‘burnt-out’ male medic. This article explores the character of Sacha Levy in Holby City, demonstrating how the show’s writers engage actively in research to directly confront stereotypes of toxic masculinity and Jewish underrepresentation in the contemporary medical drama.

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