Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:41:09 -0500 From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU> Subject: Re: PLC: Cultural studies > The thing that worries me about 'cultural studies' is that the further >delineation of cultures only goes to further the gaps between them. I don't >think we will ever decide whether a melting pot or multiculturalism is what >is better/best; but 'studying' cultures and summarizing each one into >smaller and smaller subcultures certainly doesn't help anyone to assimilate. > Perhaps the logical conclusion of cultural studies is 'individual' >studies. Hey guess what: every individual is different. WOW!! I think I'll >go write a thesis. > > Sorry for the heavy sarcasm, but I'm with the >i-don't-think-much-of-cultural-studies group. > >Paul Stone Won't work, on accounta the notion that there could _be_ such a thing as an individual (a late 18th century romantic construct) is a capitalist ploy to defuse the issue of social resposibility (If, after all, one is an individual, then one takes responsibility for onesself, and the society needs not). Or that's what it says in the book of cultural studies. Course Mr. Marx gives one the non-ideological place to stand while one deconstructs all this stuff. g --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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