CUL233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bundesgartenschau, Pinterest, Culture Industry
21 Aug 2018
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Tutorials: in 2 weeks, 45 mins, short-answer questions about key concepts we"ve dealt with so far, readings for weeks 1, 2 + 3. In his work, hall argues that our popular culture is constituted by a double movement of containment and resistance". Drawing on your example and tate"s work, discuss why it is important to mark the radicalised history of contemporary graffiti as a form of tactical resistance. What is lost if we analyse graffiti without reference to its context? bell hooks writes: Tactics: the tactics of consumption, the ingenious ways in which the weak make use of the strong, thus lend a political dimension to everyday practices (de certeau) There is a continuous and necessarily uneven struggle, by the dominant culture, constantly to disorganise and reorganise popular culture; to enclose and confine its definitions and forms within a more inclusive range of dominant forms (hall 1994)
