On Sat, 23 Mar 91 10:19:00 EST Roger Simon said: >two topics I'd be interested in hearing reactions to. The first is the >issue of the critique of the loose way the concept of "resistance" has been >used in recent audience response studies e.g. fiske, morely, hobson, etc. >David Scholle has an interesting article in the first issue of the Journal of >Urban and Cultural Studies that attempts to re-insert the primacy of a >political economic notion of resistance back into cultural studies which he >sees as lapsing to far into a concern with an a political semiosis....or >rather treating semiotic democracy as an end in itself [does this ring a bell >with anyone?] Haven't seen that piece--or, indeed, that new journal. Where is it being published? By "resistance" I presume you're talking about types of reading/decoding that somehow "resist" dominant ideology and/or hegemony. Am I ringing the right bell? I'm afraid I'm pretty ignorant of political economic theory, and thus don't have a clue what its notion of resistance would be. Could you elaborate? And if Fiske/Morely/Hobson (and Hall?) are "apolitical," then what would "political" cultural studies entail? >I work out of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto which >has a lively, large group of faculty devoted to teaching and research in the >area of critical pedagogy and cultural studies. > I hope you'll pass around the news of SCREEN-L's existence. Bring some of that liveliness to BITNET/Internet! ---------- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. --Booker T. Washington ---------- | | Bitnet : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | | GEnie : J.BUTLER27 | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |