scholarly journals Violence and post-hegemony - Theorising affective resonances between voice and habit memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Artur Szarecki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Violent Incident ◽  
Political Effects

The prevailing accounts of voice within cultural studies often centre on issues of political representation and authority, bypassing the material aspects of voice and ensuing political effects thereof. By analysing a violent incident during a hip hop concert in Poland, this paper attempts to provide a post-hegemonic account of the politics of voice. It traces the circulation of sonic intensities comprising the event – including the sonority of voice, its electric amplification and the rhythmic organisation of verbal interactions – arguing that they directly modulated the behaviour patterns of the audience via affective transmission. Furthermore, the concept of habit memory is employed to indicate the limits of contagion. The paper thus rereads the outbreak of violence in terms of resonances that occur beneath the level of discourse, immanently restructuring the encounters between bodies.

scholarly journals Co-instituting the Constituency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Eu

Traversing cultural studies and political theory, this paper asks how any representative is to represent a diverse constituency, given that any constituency is necessarily co-instituted—that is, made up of—multiple and conflicting bodies and interests. Arguing that the term has suffered from a deficit of enquiry within the theoretical and critical humanities, this article thus aims to re-figure the concept of constituency. The specific understanding of constituency formation within the context of British political system, something especially visible in the wake of the EU referendum and its aftermath, highlights that constituencies are understood within this context through an atomic logic—that is, that each constituency is made up of individual constituents. Thinking with the notion of constituent power allows for a better understanding of the co-instituted nature of constituencies: how and by whom they are co-created. This, in turn, undermines any understanding of political representation as a merely bi-directional practice between representative and constituency. Finally, a close reading of Ghislaine Leung’s CONSTITUTION helps probe further both a bi-directional account of constituency formation and the notion that constituencies are themselves atomically structured, upsetting set theory in the process and allowing us to better apprehend the co-constitutive relationship between constituency and constituent.  

“Pushin’ It”

2021 ◽  
pp. 504-522
Author(s):  
Joanna Love
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Sexual Empowerment

Formative scholarship on musical appropriation has tended to focus on how dominant groups borrow subaltern signifiers to elevate their hipness. However, in contemporary American advertising campaigns, marketers often deploy humorous devices that place stereotyped signifiers of distinctive groups in opposition to one another to magnify their perceived differences and create comedy for the spot. This chapter investigates this practice by examining a 2014 Geico insurance commercial that features the pioneering female hip-hop crew Salt-N-Pepa performing their 1988 hit “Push It.” The commercial aims for humor by re-envisioning the trio’s suggestive music video as a means for cheering suburbanites through mundane tasks. But the incongruence of old-school hip-hop sounds and imagery against those of the modern-day, white-washed lifestyles onscreen reveals a more obvious message: The urban, Black trio and their one-time hit song about female sexual empowerment do not belong there. Musicological inquiry is thus paired here with cultural studies of hip-hop, hipness, advertising, and humor to reveal the process by which signifiers of Salt-N-Pepa’s iconicity are placed in opposition to the pictured residents in ways that reaffirm hierarchies of race, gender, and class.

A socio-pragmatic analysis of wúlítóu ‘nonsense’ in Taiwanese verbal interactions

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Chi Lee Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis

AbstractHumor has long attracted scholarly interest in many academic disciplines, such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc. Among the various types of humor,

scholarly journals Kunst, køn og nekropolitik

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Tragic Event ◽  
Point Of Departure

The concept of necropolitics, launched by Achille Mbembe in 2003, has had an increasing influence within various disciplines but not within arts, aesthetics and cultural studies. This is the point of departure for my article, which simply wants to address the following questions:What does a contemporary necropolitical art look like? My exemplary case is Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. In her work Lote Bravo (2005) she deals explicitly with a feminicidio that ‘officially’ began in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1993 (since then the killings of women have not only continued but spread to the rest of the country). It is tragically clear that these killings of young women crystallize a cruel combination of capitalism, gender and death. Using spatiality, mediality and affectivity as a conceptual triad for analyzing this particular work and drawing upon the thinking of Judith Butler, I will show how Margolles re-frames (the representation of) the tragic event, which is what enables an aesthetic production of grief with real political effects. 

A Collaborative Practitioner Inquiry into Societal and Power-Relational Contexts of an Activist Writing Community’s Textual Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1/2019) ◽  
pp. 62-80
Author(s):  
Amir Kalan ◽  
Parisa Jafari ◽  
Mahdyar Aghajani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Practitioner Inquiry ◽  
Community Literacy ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Writing Instructors ◽  
Relational Contexts

This article describes experiences with a community literacy approach to writing instruction in a cultural studies and literary criticism workshop in Tehran, Iran (2009-2014). The writers narrate the process of writing a book undertaken by a group of Iranian feminists, who chose to write about and critique dominant discourses in Iranian hip hop, in an attempt to start a conversation with young underground Iranian rappers. Adopting collaborative practitioner inquiry, the researchers discuss different steps of the process of writing and publishing the book, and also the pitfalls and challenges that they encountered in the project and the ensuing interventions. In the course of sharing their reflections, the writers highlight the sociocultural and power relational contexts of their writing process to sensitise writing instructors to the often invisible social and political layers of the act of writing.

scholarly journals “Where I’m From”: Jay-Z’s “Hip Hop Cosmopolitanism,” Basketball, and the Neoliberal Politics of Urban Space”

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Oates
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Black Ghetto ◽  
Jay Z

This article examines the articulation of the Black ghetto to authenticity through the involvement of hip hop star Jay-Z in two highly publicized basketball-related ventures during 2003. During that year, Jay-Z organized a team for the Entertainer’s Basketball Classic (EBC) in Harlem’s Rucker Park and joined a team of investors aiming to move the New Jersey Nets to a new arena in Brooklyn. Informed by cultural studies scholarship, the paper explains the context through which basketball and hip hop were articulated with authenticity, and were deployed towards the goal of managing a career transition for Jay-Z, and was also used to gain public support for a controversial proposal to build an arena in the Atlantic Yards area of Brooklyn.

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