Jameson presented a public lecture as part of the “Telling Truths: Crime Fiction & National Allegory” conference. Below is an expanded version of the notes I wrote on my question I asked him during the question time: Speaking as an enthusiast rather than an expert. FJ described terrorists and serial killers as boring villains. I […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
CSAA Conference Final Plenary Panel
My ‘mobile phone’ notes on the final plenary panel session of the 2012 CSAA conference http://www.csaa2012.org/ All panelists addressed the question: What matters for cultural studies? GT Few would describe it as a discipline. Training in a disciplinarity Teaching downgraded. Conduct in everyday life. Don’t believe surrendering the space to solving problems of business. Critical pedagogic […]