we were talking about the possible productive use of things that have become formulaic are you trying to claim that the fashionability of a given formula makes it less productive? would this equally apply to the periods when Marxist structural analysis was fashionable?
as to the fashionability of cultstud eclecticism -- it's very specific to particular contexts, and doesn't mean the same thing in all of them
At 06:59 PM 14/02/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>
>>>Not automatically, no. And as you know, I quite like Madonna. But the
>>>style of juxtaposing "high" and "low" has become a bit of a formula, hasn't it?
>>>
>>>Doug
>>
>>sure, but so has marxist structural analysis and that a) never stops
>>anyone and b) doesn't make everything done with it stupid
>
>Agreed on both a) and b). Though Marxist structural analysis is a bit less
>in fashion than cult stud eclecticism.
>
>Doug