95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method

169 Pages·2003·7.751 MB·English

by  Anne Norton

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Theses
on
Politics,
Culture,
and
Method

Theses
on
Politics,
Culture,
and
Method
ANNE NORTON
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
Copyright © 2004 by Anne Norton.
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Contents
95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method
Commentary
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95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method
Culture is a matrix.
Culture is not a variable.
Politics is in culture.
Culture is political.
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Culture is in language. 12
Language is political. 13
There is no neutral language. TS
We are in language. 16
fasIBastlisl lne iAuth ority is political and literary. 17
Culture can be considered as a text. 22.
. Literary devices have direct counterparts in political
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strategies. 23
Tot Culture constitutes the body and makes it readable. 26
7. Gender, race, and sexuality are cultural constructs. 27
14. Commodities serve as semiotic lexicons. a4
ine The natural is a cultural category. 33
16. Culture is an observable concept. 34
<7. Culture is made in practice. 36
18. Culture, as practice, is continually changing. 37
19. The formal is always accompanied by an informal
counterpart, the structural by the antistructural
and the unstructured. ao
Change comes from the liminal. 41
20.
All cultures are syncretic. 42
21.
All cultures are exceptional. No culture is exceptional. 44
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23% Culture is wild and various.