I like late Stuart Hall just as much as early, and I subscribe to Simon Frith's description of the difference between "rock" and "pop", in which the former is a sort of modernist imposition of autonomy and authenticity onto cultural commodities. Not that I don't like post-punk, Doug, but for political content I tend to prefer Top 40 material.
I'm not sure whether you are disputing what I've said or not--is there a disagreement that there are new forms of cultural production?
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Asad Haider <noswine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Far better than business-crazy futurists who think that we have
> transcended
> > work, and grouchy left-wing traditionalists who see new forms of cultural
> > production as the decline of civilization.
> >
> > What new forms of cultural production are you talking about? MS Windows?
> The derivatives market? Urban primitivism? K Records? Amazon? Facebook?
> Blogging?
>
> As important, what do you mean by culture? And where did any of us say that
> new forms of cultural production indicated a decline of civilization? Who
> here has argued that western civilization was civilized? Do you listen to
> Doug on the radio/podcast? One rock (or variant thereof) tune and one
> classical (or variant thereof) tune... just the way we like it. Heartfield
> doesn't appreciate British Cultural Studies but most of us here (he says
> taking a risk) do - or at least the general approach of folks like EP
> THompson, Raymond Williams, Dick Hebdige, Terry Eagleton and (early) Stuart
> Hall.
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