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- Title: An Economy of Impossibility: A Preliminary Study for an Ordinal Approach to Research Methods in Cultural Studies.
- Author : Critical Arts
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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Preface This 'Economy of impossibility' article is testament to Arnold Shepperson because it says something about what we have lost. The fact that it is a draft and unfinished precisely helps to pose questions to think about (see also Julia Clare's article). That's not a bad legacy! Ultimately Arnold was concerned with two troubling problems, both of which derive from his context: 1) being in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS) and 2) living in contemporary South Africa. He was deeply embedded in the CCMS project of deploying critical methodology within an activist struggle. But ultimately he could not help himself--he had to turn cultural studies methodology upon itself. So Arnold used cultural studies' critical methodology to examine the underlying premises of the field. In so doing he glimpsed a contradiction, for although cultural studies likes to think of itself as 'oppositional', cultural studies is actually 'embedded within' liberal discourse. Cultural studies and postie discourse (which believes itself to be 'revolutionary' and oppositional to liberal-capitalism), ultimately do not threaten liberalism--cultural studies ironically serves liberalism by generating a 'tamed' critique from within ('within' because it is grounded in liberal premises). The sentences below reveal Arnold's concern with this cultural studies embeddedness within liberalism: