#PURITY BODY ARTS HOW TO#
Gathering together a rowdy multiplicity of voices from within medieval and early modern studies, these two volumes seek to extend and intensify a conversation about how to shape premodern studies, and also the humanities, in the years ahead. The essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes - which collectively form an academic “rave” - were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 20, organized by postmedieval: a journal for medieval cultural studies and the BABEL Working Group (“Burn After Reading: Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies,” “Fuck This: On Letting Go,” and “Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go”) and George Washington University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (“The Future We Want: A Collaboration”), respectively. The implications of seeing the vernacular image as something that does not fit in established mass media methods of study gestures towards its being a somewhat different phenomenon and it’s worth a closer look at the action or performance of the image itself, what it allows people to do and how this happens.
I hasten to add that though the consumption of images is never passive, the built‐in impetus of advertising images encourages passive consumption. This project contributes to understandings of how images are working in the world and consequently to how people can produce and direct the visual space rather than be relegated to receiving and, more or less passively, consuming images. I do not wish to locate this image or designate its “address.” Instead, I prefer to examine how it is a locating how it is a verb as well as a noun.
#PURITY BODY ARTS SERIES#
This project is a series of encounters with the image and a look at the levels at which it operates and how it moves fluidly between them. Although I acknowledge mass-produced versions of the matrix (source) image, my primary interest is in those renderings acquiring some singularity either through their production or location or in how they have been appropriated and adapted. I was curious about vernacular (non-institutional) visual communication. I was initially interested in this image of Guevara and how it worked because I perceived a performative capability to gather people and sanction action that was inherently productive and powerful at a grassroots level. But what exactly are we being asked to remember? This study aims to create an analytical space for understanding this phenomenon as far as it can be observed through its analysis and to provide a starting point for a better perspective of the significance of visual events in public as well as their cultural resonance. We are invited, demanded, expected to recount and memorialize. "Unruly Fugues", An Interview with Lynette Hunter.Ĭhe Guevara’s image, is seen as a global icon crossing all kinds of social and cultural boundaries, as exemplified in street protests and evidenced by multiple visual messages such as posters, logos, t‐shirts and slogans. "Responses", An Interview with Thomas Docherty. "What Can Cultural Studies Do?", An Interview with Steven Connor. "The Subject Position of Cultural Studies: Is There A Problem? ", An Interview with Jeremy Valentine. "Cultural Studies, In Theory", An Interview with John Mowitt. ".as if such a thing existed.", An Interview with Julian Wolfreys. "Friends and Enemies: Which Side Is Cultural Studies On?", An Interview with Jeremy Gilbert. "Becoming Cultural Studies", An Interview with Griselda Pollock. "Inventing Recollection", An Interview with Adrian Rifkin. "Two Cheers For Cultural Studies", An Interview with Chris Norris. "Why I Love Cultural Studies", An Interview with Simon Critchley.
"The Projection of Cultural Studies", An Interview with Martin McQuillan. "From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis", An Interview with Mieke Bal. "From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism", An Interview with Catherine Belsey. Table of Contents 'Interrogating Cultural Studies', Paul Bowman. Giroux, Warterbury Chair Professor of Education, Penn State University. Anyone interested in cultural studies should read this book." Henry A. What Bowman has done brilliantly is make dialogue and critical exchange fundamental to the very meaning of cultural studies and in doing so has given it both a new life and a more secure future to expand and deepen the meaning of democratic identities, values, and struggles.
This book is a powerful resource for engaging cultural studies as both a language of critique and a discourse of possibility. "Paul Bowman has done cultural studies a great theoretical service.
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