culture

 

some themes and ideas in the critical study of culture

 

This is a series of one hour weekly sessions designed to introduce researchers to key issues in the contemporary study of culture with particular reference to key constructs and terms such as: ideology; discourse; hegemony; dispositif; precarity; multitude; representation; cultural politics; and so forth. See Autumn 2010 programme here.

 

The sessions take place on Thursday at noon in John Street starting 3/2/2010. In the Autumn 2010 series we had introductory sessions on: criticism, critique and critical theory; culture - a complicated word; the aesthetic; ideology; discourse and dispositive; modernity, modernism and mass culture; avant-gardism and cultural revolution; human capital; cultural commodities and intellectual properties; public culture and public relations.

 

spring 2011 schedule

 

Feb 3

Culture: Revisiting a contested concept
Reading: David Hesmondhalgh and Andy C. Pratt (2005) Cultural Industries and Cultural policy" in International journal of cultural policy, 11 (1). pp. 1-14.
See "The Financial Crisis and its Effects on Public Arts Funding: Observations by Andreas Joh. Wiesand"
See also www.culturalpolicies.net

 

Feb 10

Crisis and Legitimacy
Readings: The Economist (2010) "The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time", December 16.
John Holden (2006) Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy, DEMOS. Daniele Archibugi and Mariano Croce (2009) “Legality and legitimacy of exporting democracy” (conference paper). See also Rodney Barker (1990) Political Legitimacy and the State, Oxford.
Slide show is available here.

 

Feb 17

Capital I
Readings / Sources: David Harvey video of Professor Harvey speaking about The Enigma of Capital at the Croatian Architects’ Association in Zagreb, October 1, 2010.
Michael Hudson (2010) "NeoLiberalism and the Counter-Enlightenment: The Counter-Enlightenment, its Economic Program – and the Classical Alternative" (Lecture)
Listen to an audio version here.
See Social Analysis and Reporting Division Office for National Statistics (2001) Social Capital: A review of the literature. (Sections 1 and 2)
See also kapitalism101.wordpress.com/what-is-capital
and kapitalism101.wordpress.com/what-is-capitalism
and http://www.youtube.com

 

Feb 24

Capital II
Discussion continues from previous week.

 

Mar 3

What is / was postmodernism?

 

Mar 10 Special Book Publishing Workshop

 

Mar 17

St. Patrick’s Day

 

Mar 24

Special Seminar on Reading David Harvey 12:00-15:00

 

Mar 31

to be agreed by the group

 

Apr 7

Cultural Policy

 

Apr 14

Ethno-Nationalism and the New Cultural politics of Citizenship

 

Apr 21

Easter Break

 

Apr 28

Easter Break

 

May 5

to be agreed by the group

 

May12

to be agreed by the group

 

May 19

to be agreed by the group

 

 

 

For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.