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    e00 Commonweal Religion Politics Books Culture Collections ‘Subscribe The Hubris of Culture And the Limits of Identity Politics Tory Eolton : Sout bfstock Tt Tre ‘xm importance. On the one hand, there ino denying tha iteracure deals with (he tt tan ie ale wich ray be coegh cor degre of satus on those wo wade in it On the oer hand exer sine i viper pursuit tthe pont where it snot hard to imagine university departments of erste Gndeed ofthe arts and humanities in genera) becoming thing of the ast. ‘Academic tear studies were grectd with cies of genee! derision wea they Hist emerged (i a geneman rely rguice formal instrcton in he herry ar ois must sowadaye confront amore rete frm of sepicen (Qo auc recone pursuits really contribute anvthing to a buoyant economy?) rescue of terry crim a sk of losing ts social elevance altogether Once rary oube that they had some plausible claim wo ene. They were, fe al engage with assigned to thos literary inllecls who, decades cae, thew in thie with ‘he batted could lay him to woe-hisrial status The ish revolsonary Thomas “MacDonagh, having condacted hi a university cls (on Jane Austen) a Dbl, let ‘he ampus takepart inthe anticoloil insurrection of Easter 1916, and ater met his hl sas ein poli and postcolonial sues hat helped secure a broader rl for ‘Warn Tero played its par to, as cultural aie, tic Metis, and religious ee ae cee ee ee eee erry studies had been lent a powefal ew ease an i by the rise af sexual pois which forthe past fw decades has heen one of ts major preoccupations By the bepaning ofthe wenty-Sist century then, there seemed no doubt tat the eoncept of culture aftr whic oul nt at ear a long jihad, and which onthe demibe fof cinema and television, long withthe disappearance of ibid fom the fae ofthe cart, might seriously impr. Ctr at 3 concept had ot only come of gs, but seemed eas, ower in danger of overt is on importance Tak, fer example, the ambiguity of the er cua inst” the word “indusry” a mesure of how far cultural production has extended its each throughout moder ciation, ts alo 8 reminder hat the chit moties fr thi are by no means cull ones Like Genera “Motors, Hollywood andthe media exit primary forthe ske ofthe harold ei ‘he profi moive that impels clue to spread is say nro te globe. The clare ‘nds testifies ess othe eaality of elt thn tothe expansionist mbisons of the late capitals stem which an now colonize fant an enjsment a intense a | nee colonized Kenja andthe Phipps In a curious irony then the larger mass ‘ltr looms the more appear ak 2 phenomenon now Fgh but he eso a ‘utonomous Zone it actual Besides, the more inten this ult grows the more oumatie sense of the erm, “The conventional postmodeen wisdom is that this sjtem has now ake cultura ur, Fe i regia et we een pled Cis Wl «alr face-The role ofthe so-called “creative industries, the power ofthe new clr technologies the peominent ole of ign, mage, brand, son, peta, Ms fants, design, and advertising al his taken fo esti tothe emergence ofan “ashe” form fof apie, in rans from the materi othe sate What this amount 0, hhwever is hat cali has incorporate culture fore materiales, not tat it has fallen under the sway ofthe asthe, gratuitous, selling, or se-uiliag. On the contrary this aerheticined mode of ental proton has proved more rhe instrumental han ever. “Creat” which for Karl Marx and Wii Moris sigled {he opposite of capa uty, presed int the serie of suiiion and expeiaton seemed is opposite eutue" than the global decline ofthe universes Along withthe ur ages ifsomewhat ess spectacular in mature, A centue-od adn of universities as centers of humane ergue is crrenty being scuppered by their oaverson into pseuo~ capitalist enterprises under the sway of «belly piste managerial colony. Once ‘eons of eral reflection, cade lantions ae being incresngy reed to orga ofthe markeplace along with Beting shops and fast-food joins They are now forthe ‘oa part in the hands of technocrats for whom values ae largely mater of el estate ‘Ane nella prlstarit of academic asco By how fa hi ects Plato ‘Copernicus boost the econ, while unemployed graduate conus a Kind of Iumpen neligensia,Stadens who ae current charged ees bythe yea wil m0 doubt soon ind ther utr charging by the insight In moving some of ts academe staf w Promins one Brith ive recently sued a ec severly eric thei aby 9 keep books in thei minuscule oes. The dream of ou universes boneheaded ministre of ookles and papers eaviroament, books nd paper beng es, rumply su incompatible with a leamingnco-

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