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The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in
the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's
unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall
delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North
American audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the
course of critical scholarship. Unavailable until now, these
lectures present Hall's original engagements with the theoretical
positions that contributed to the formation of Cultural Studies.
Throughout this personally guided tour of Cultural Studies'
intellectual genealogy, Hall discusses the work of Richard Hoggart,
Raymond Williams, and E. P. Thompson; the influence of
structuralism; the limitations and possibilities of Marxist theory;
and the importance of Althusser and Gramsci. Throughout these
theoretical reflections, Hall insists that Cultural Studies aims to
provide the means for political change.
The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in
the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's
unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall
delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North
American audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the
course of critical scholarship. Unavailable until now, these
lectures present Hall's original engagements with the theoretical
positions that contributed to the formation of Cultural Studies.
Throughout this personally guided tour of Cultural Studies'
intellectual genealogy, Hall discusses the work of Richard Hoggart,
Raymond Williams, and E. P. Thompson; the influence of
structuralism; the limitations and possibilities of Marxist theory;
and the importance of Althusser and Gramsci. Throughout these
theoretical reflections, Hall insists that Cultural Studies aims to
provide the means for political change.
Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are
Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which
algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously
reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and
intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of
humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will,
surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism,
and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints
enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are
undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced
manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in
the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate
through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market
democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the
present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been
reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms.
Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are
Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which
algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously
reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and
intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of
humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will,
surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism,
and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints
enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are
undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced
manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in
the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate
through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market
democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the
present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been
reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms.
This international collection explores the role of ideology in the
information age, challenging the dominant ideology of the
information age through examinations of its philosophical and
theoretical assumptions, its images of the future, and its
international dimensions.
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