Artifact & Artifice: Cultural Studies of the Textual City: History of Origins: Great Britain

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This blog was created by and for students in an Introduction to Cultural Studies class at the University of Washington. Through an investigation of urban experience and representation--in theory, in graphic novels and in our own "readings" of Seattle's University District--we considered the formation and history of cultural studies as an (anti)discipline, with a special emphasis on the questions, "What does cultural studies do, and how do you do cultural studies?"

If you'd like to know more about the class, the blog or our U-District artifact project, please contact Gabrielle Dean: gnodean@u.washington.edu.

Monday, April 14, 2008

History of Origins: Great Britain

After reading through the text, a correlation can be made between the two as they both seem to mention the importance of cultural studies constantly being refined. As Munns and Rajan states, "cultural studies has been subject to prolific growth in academic institutions in the late 1980s and the early 1990s." (Munns and Rajan 152). And as Sardar and Van Loon says, "its constant goal is to expose power and relationships..." (Sardar and Van Loon 9). Basically, these two have stated that cultural studies is still in the process of growing and will continue to do so because there is no determined definition of the study and will, more than likely, not have a definite definition for as long as we know it.

1) Term from New Keywords: Evolution

Through the readings, it seems to have the common trait of cultural studies and how it evolves. Steven Rose chooses to define evolution as "unrolling, unfolding, or opening out." (Rose 117). Taking this term into relation with cultural studies definitely makes the point that cultural studies itself has and always will be current and up to date. As new culture comes into play, cultural studies will be following it every step of the way.

2) Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_evolution

This gives us an insight into cultural evolution and how we may be affected by the changes and not have noticed it.

3) Other link: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/146212/cultural-evolution

Here's more about cultural evolution.