Hartley, John
From Cultural Studies to Cultural Science
2009

He is sad about the intellectual state of cultural studies (while he acknowledges that the institutional state is healthy). Cultural studies has lost its sense of provocation and going new ways. It is in the same situation economics was 100 years ago. Today it seems logical for cultural studies to use its (unexpected) closeness with evolutionary economics to become exciting and purposeful again.

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“These preoccupations with social structure (class inequality), textuality (constructions of meaning), identity (the politics of the personal) and structural Marxism (base and superstructure) have driven cultural studies ever since. It retains a structuralist interest in systems (in which oppositions can be identified) rather than an evolutionary interest in ‘cumulative sequence’ and change. And it has modelled ‘macro’ change as exogenous not endogenous – it would come from revolution (external shock) not evolution (cumulative sequence).”

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Explains the DCMS ‘creative industries’ mapping document from 1998, its downsides, upsides, and reactions to it from all over the world.