From Culturalism to Transculturalism

摘要: My aim in this paper is to examine critically these recent developments cultural studies terms of a post-Gramscian dynamic. This not suggest that the Gramscian paradigm exhausted and I acknowledge there are many very notable writers field who advocate restoration (continuation) theoretic (see Storey, McRobbie, Grossberg). argument here simply most incarnations self-defining movement have centered on two quite specific readings Foucault. In order advance our understanding culture it seems necessary readings, especially as seeks establish itself evolutionary descendant traditional disciplines. The current essay, fact, suggests an alternative Foucaultian dichotomy, one which maximize heuristic efficacy hegemony theory poststructuralism. To extent, concept 'transculturalism' takes us beyond Johnson's original notion 'culturalism' through integration political aesthetics with civics.