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Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices Melissa Gregg Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices This page intentionally left blank Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices Melissa Gregg University of Queensland © Melissa Gregg 2006 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan®is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–9902–3 hardback ISBN-10: 1–4039–9902–3 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gregg, Melissa, 1978- Cultural studies’ affective voices/Melissa Gregg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1–4039–9902–3 1. Culture—Study and teaching. 2. Culture—Study and teaching—History. I. Title. HM623.G74 2006 306.07–dc22 2006045713 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne For the regulars at Monthly MACS and Home Cooked Theory. Without this strange intoxication, ridiculed by every outsider; without this passion… without this, you have nocalling for science and you should do something else. For nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion. Max Weber, ‘Science as Vocation’ Just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there. Radiohead, ‘There There’ Contents Acknowledgements viii 1. Communicating Investment: Cultural Studies, Politics and Affect 1 2. Activating Empathy: Richard Hoggart, Ordinariness and the Persistence of ‘Them’ and ‘Us’ 26 3. The Politics of Conjuncture: Stuart Hall, Articulation and the Commitment to Specificity 55 4. Fighting for the Future: Lawrence Grossberg, Messianic Zeal and the Challenge of Building a Legacy 82 5. Justice and Accountability: Andrew Ross, Intellectual Labour and the New Academic Activism 106 6. A Voice of Vigilance: Meaghan Morris, Anecdotal Critique and the Politics of Academic Speech 128 Conclusion 154 Notes 160 References 171 Index 181 vii Acknowledgements This project began in a different town, at a different time. I would like to thank Elspeth Probyn for her support and guidance and for making academic life an exciting possibility (and eventual reality). I also thank readers of earlier versions of this argument, particularly Nick Couldry, James Donald, Catherine Driscoll and Linnell Secomb. In Sydney, thanks to Kate Crawford, Clifton Evers, Anna Gibbs, Natalya Lusty, Shane McGrath, Tara Mathey, Catriona Menzies-Pike, Michael Moller, Katrina Schlunke, Jane Simon and William Tregoning. Thanks also to Megan Watkins for drawing my attention to Teresa Brennan’s work. In Brisbane, thanks to Frances Bonner, Gerard Goggin, John Gunders, Ian Hunter, Andrea Mitchell, Fiona Nicoll, Ellie Rennie and Jo Tacchi. Particular thanks to Graeme Turner, Jean Burgess and Joshua Green, each of whom have made my move to Brisbane incred- ibly rewarding. Research for this book was supported by an Early Career Researcher Grant from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland. I deeply appreciate the opportunity it provided. The reading of The Uses of Literacy offered in Chapter 2 has appeared previously in ‘A Neglected History: Richard Hoggart’s Discourse of Empathy’, Rethinking History vol 7 (3), 2003, while significant parts of Chapter 3 were first published in two separate articles: ‘Toolbox for Electric Fences’ in Cultural Studies Review, vol 10 (1), 2004; and, in collabora- tion with Glen Fuller, ‘Where is the Law in “Unlawful Combatant”? Resisting the Refrain of the Right-eous’, also in Cultural Studies Review, vol 11 (2), 2005. I sincerely appreciate the permission originally grant- ed by Gary Highland of Amnesty International for use of the image in Chapter 3, and Martin Milne who confirmed permission for this pub- lication. Some parts of Chapter 6 appear in ‘A Mundane Voice’, Cultural Studies vol 18 (2–3), 2004. Thank you to Gregory Seigworth and Michael Gardiner for commissioning that article and for helpful suggestions on improving it. Thanks especially to Greg for remaining a critical interlocutor for the past few years. On this front, I also want to thank Kris Cohen for being my best ‘virtual’ friend and for putting me up in Chicago. Thanks to my extended family in Hobart and Sydney for their support during this long project, and to my Dad for viii Acknowledgements ix support of the most practical kind. All other acknowledgements appear in endnotes to the text where relevant. The ideas expressed here have gained enormously from the generosi- ty of Larry Grossberg, Meaghan Morris, Andrew Ross and Eve Sedgwick. What follows marks what I hope will be only the beginning of my attempts to express appropriate gratitude. Melissa Gregg
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