Introduction: Cultural Studies, Marxism and the Exile of Aesthetics

Holm, Nicholas; Duncan, Pansy

doi:10.1515/culture-2018-0067

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“…In this framework, art’s potential to prise out a space of critical distance from its capitalist context could allow it to express uncomfortable truths about the exploitative ways of the world. Taking their lead from that earlier generation of political aesthetic theorists – sometimes as a form of inspiration, at other times in direct opposition (Holm and Duncan, 2018) – later scholars of culture and politics, including Raymond Williams, Michel de Certeau, Linda Hutcheon, Guy Debord, Pierre Bourdieu and Stuart Hall, would then expand the scope of this theoretical project to increasingly encompass popular and everyday forms of culture, as well as high art, in a variety of ways. Sometimes culture was envisioned as the expression of the popular will or the raw material for oppositional tactics, at other times it became the terrain on power struggles.…”

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The limits of satire, or the reification of cultural politics

Holm

2023

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In the first decades of the 21st century, humour has been increasingly embraced as a legitimate means by which to cover, analyse and intervene in political issues. Most frequently, this political application of humour has been interpreted through the lens of ‘satire’: a term that evokes an idea of humour as a politically meaningful cultural act. Such an account of humour connects satire with the long-standing theoretical tradition of ‘cultural politics’ that explores the ability and mechanism of cultural forms to inform, inspire or enact political change. However, while satire may appear as the manifestation or culmination of a cultural political agenda, I argue that the concept ultimately works towards the closure of cultural political possibility. Drawing on the work of Georg Lukács and Fredric Jameson, I argue that satire is better understood as a form of reification that prematurely resolves how, when and why cultural forms can do politics.

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The limits of satire, or the reification of cultural politics

Holm

2023

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“…The extension of the term aesthetics, initially, being a part of cultural studies, to the political and social sciences provoked its various translations. Aesthetics represent different aspects of cultural experience and aesthetic judgment allows us to organize this experience (Holm & Duncan, 2018).…”

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