Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 20:00:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan P. Beasley-Murray" <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu> Subject: Birmingham Sch. and first instance I find it interesting which writers and topics get discussed on this list, and which don't (and wonder why). One definite lacuna in our discussions seems to have been the Birmingham School, and the British "new left" more generally (Williams, Thompson, Anderson, Nairn, Johnson...). What about Stuart Hall in particular. Here's a phrase I've heard attributed to him that I find intriguing (though I don't know the source--help would be appreciated): "Perhaps it would be better, instead of always referring to the economic as determining in the 'last instance' to think instead of its determination as the 'first instance' of capilist cultural production." or something like that. I take this to mean that the economic factors are almost always (banally) obvious, on the surface--and indeed already subject to so much disocurse (book advances, costs of film productions)--as are the economic determinations of everyday life, that the move to the "base" can scarcely be taken anymore as some "demystificatory" move. Back to the end of ideology theme? Any other thoughts? Jon Jon Beasley-Murray Literature Program Duke University jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu ------------------
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