Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... museums and exhibitions . Although Bennett begins his article with explicit acknowledgement of Foucault's method , he also ... museum . It is interesting to compare this approach to nineteenth - century bourgeois culture with existing ...
... Museum stay open only because the doors of the prison are closed : " Where instruction and rhetoric failed , punishment began . " Another exemplary piece on a similar subject , Donna Haraway's paper , " Teddy Bear Patriarchy " ( this ...
... museum , one of the reasons one has , willy nilly , the moral status of a young boy undergoing initiation through visual experience . . . . The museum is a visual technology . It works through desire for communion , not separation , and ...
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