KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Class Culture, Richard Hoggart, Manifesto Of Futurism
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Cultural studies as an academic discipline derives its name from the birmingham centre for. Contemporary cultural studies, often called simply the birmingham school, founded in 1964 at the university of birmingham by richard hoggart. For much of the late 19th and early 20th century the only fully formed social or political theory for the working class and for those who promoted the transition to socialism was k. marx. But marx precisely did not take culture seriously as an agent of change. Working class culture appeared to be threatened both by the elite and by the theoretical perspective that was supposed to support it. Walter benjamin (1892-1940 committed suicide attempting to escape europe) Writing in the context of rise of fascist movements and governments around europe and particularly the rise of nazism in germany. Benjamin argues, in the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (1936), that while.
