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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
01 Jan 2015-
TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
Abstract: Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this article, from the small screen to the big picture, the authors discuss the relationship between technology and new media, the powers of capital, Hollywood's media-industrial complex, the state base and superstructure, the political unconscious signs, ideology and hegemony commodity fetishism and reification.
Abstract: Preface - from the small screen to the big picture. Class and creative labour mode of production - technology and new media the powers of capital - Hollywood's media-industrial complex the state base and superstructure - reconstructing the political unconscious signs, ideology and hegemony commodity fetishism and reification - the world made spectral knowledge, norms and social interests - dilemmas for documentary conclusion - reflections on key concepts and contemporary trends.
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Abstract: ‘Climate geoengineering’ is becoming an increasingly prominent focus for global discussion and action. Yet, in academic, policy and wider political discourse, the frequent shorthand term ‘geoengineering’ is routinely used in very broad, ambiguous and multivalent ways. This study aims to contribute to understandings of these divergent current framings of ‘geoengineering’ and their implications. It asks not only about disparate understandings of geoengineering itself, but also what these reveal about deeper political dynamics around climate change, science and technology. To this end, the paper applies Q methodology to analyse geoengineering as a subjective discursive construct, the bounds of which are continually negotiated and contested. Thirty-five participants from a variety of political and institutional backgrounds in the UK, US, Canada and Japan undertook a ‘Q sort’ of 48 statements about geoengineering between December 2012 and February 2013. Four distinctive framings emerged from this analysis, labelled: ‘At the very least we need more research’; ‘We are the planetary maintenance engineers’; ‘Geoengineering is a political project’; and ‘Let's focus on Carbon.’ Results indicate a strong polarity around divergently construed pros and cons of geoengineering as a whole – underscoring the political salience of this term. But additional axes of difference suggest a more nuanced picture than straightforward pro/anti-positioning. The ambiguity of the term is argued to offer interpretive flexibility for articulating diverse interests within and across contending framings. The paper questions whether increasing terminological precision will necessarily facilitate greater clarity in resulting multivalent governance discussions and public engagement. It argues that the merits of any given form of precision and their policy implications will depend on particular framings. Much ambiguity in this area may thus be irreducible, with the challenges lying perhaps less in the ordering of discourse and more in reconciling the wider material political pluralities that this suggests.
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...It is in such ways, that these discursive phenomena can hold powerful material implications for the exercise of social, political and economic agency towards the structuring of relations and deployment of various kinds of resource (Lukes, 2004; Gramsci, 1971; Foucault, 2002; Bourdieu, 1984)....
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Abstract: Although feminist thought increasingly infuses the study of organizational communication, much of the feminist literature to date has failed to engage the practices of women in actual organizations. This case study moves to address that neglect, using data gathered in an organization founded by and largely comprised of women. Specifically, the essay emphasizes the contribution of women as active agents who construct their work community, and it illuminates the ways in which women may participate in the devaluation of women. The first section articulates the feminist perspective that informs our analysis. After describing the organization in question, we explore the existence of a narrative of collective self‐awareness as a distinctly “female”; community. Although this narrative includes positive themes, members tell the tale of a divisiveness—a “cattiness"—that they perceive as a uniquely “female”; practice. We discuss the theoretical and pragmatic implications of this narrative of identity. As a...
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TL;DR: In this article, applied Derrida: (Mis) reading the work of mourning in educational research, the authors present a collection of essays about the work in the field of educational research.
Abstract: (2003). Applied Derrida: (Mis)Reading the work of mourning in educational research. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 257-270.
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