From Codes to Utterances: Cultural Studies, Discourse and Psychology

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Broadly speaking, the topic of cultural studies has been the critical analysis of ideology. Although Marx and Engels, in the German Ideology, claimed that the study of ideology should begin with the activity of ‘real men’ (1970: 42), the pages of cultural studies have tended to be devoid of recognizable women and men. Frequently, the ‘culture', to be studied by cultural studies, has been represented by manufactured artifacts, such as magazines, films or academic books. Culture does not appear as something to be lived. The analyses themselves have often appeared remote from life. Stuart Hall, for example, has complained about the barbarous language and the ‘overtheoreticism', which tends ...

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