Authority on the left: Critical pedagogy, postmodernism and vital strategies

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A politics which offers only ‘dissent’ and ‘resistance’ as positive terms, is simply not enough. It will not work. An internally consistent critique — no matter how concerned, committed or purely deconstructive in intent — necessitates by definition a closure on the part of the critic to lived and living contradictions, a turning away from that ‘other side’ which must be faced, imagined, yearned towards if all the conflicting forces at play in a conjuncture are to be pushed towards a fruitful outcome … to resurrect history in all its secular senses, we could say that the situation is indeed ‘grave’ — it always is, but it is especially grave at the moment, it is especially so now. We need to develop vital strategies if we are to rise out of and move beyond a situation of such overwhelming gravity. (Hebdige, 1988: 223)

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