Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antonio Gramsci, Working Class Culture, Cultural Hegemony

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

A marxist idea that is related to ideology, but in a subtle, complex way. Has been very important for marxist cultural criticism and important for cultural studies. Left school at the age of 7 to go into the workforce; eventually went back. Got to the city of torin when it was beginning to be industrialized. Particularly interested in the plight of peasants. Leader of the communist party in italy. Rise of an extreme right wing party, moussilini. He was put in jail for the rest of his life: his most important work was the work that he did in prison. Everything he wrote had to go through the prison censors. He would disguise ideas about the relationship between marxism and culture: gramsci problem. Marx predicted that capitalism contained within the seeds of its own destruction and that when capitalism got to a certain point, class antagonisms would be exacerbated to the point that a revolution will happen.