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13. Lawrence Grossberg, “Rereading the Past From the Future,” International
Journal of Cultural Studies 10, no. 1 (2007): 128.
14. Mark Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), 126.
15. Sardar and Van Loon, Introducing Cultural Studies, 9.
16. Katz would agree with this assessment. He writes: “Postmodern philosophical
and theoretical categories and presuppositions have been essential to the constitution
of what I will call ‘mainstream’ or ‘appreciative’ cultural studies.” Adam Katz, “Post-
modern Cultural Studies: A Critique,” 10.
17. Johnson, “What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?” 54–55. Also, James W. Carey,
“Abolishing the Old Spirit World,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12, no.
1 (1995): 83, 85.
18. Blundell, Shepherd, and Taylor, “Editor’s Introduction,” 8. McChesney, from
the vantage point of political economy, agreed: “Cultural studies . . . often is con-
cerned with the relationship of media ‘texts’ to audiences and both of them to exist-
ing class and social relations, but it is mostly uninterested in examining the structural
factors that influence the production of media content. It is also uninterested, for the
main part, with the broader relationship of economics to politics.” Robert W. McCh-
esney, “The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field,” Me-
dia, Culture and Society 22, no. 1 (2000): 110.
19. Johnson, “What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?” 54.
20. Johnson, “What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?” 55.
21. Quoted in Deborah Cook, The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno
on Mass Culture (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1996), 11.
22. Thompson wrote, “I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite
cropper, the ‘obsolete’ hand-loom weaver, the ‘utopian’ artisan, and even the deluded
follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. . . . In
some of the lost causes of the people of the Industrial Revolution we may discover in-
sights into social evils which we have yet to cure.” E. P. Thompson, The Making of
the English Working Class (1963; revised, Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1972), 13.
23. Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent (London: Verso, 2003), 74.
24. Personal correspondence, November 5, 2007. See also, Kostas Gouliamos, Sa-
cred Fallacies: Essays on Political Communication and Culture (Athens: Gavrilides
Publishing House, 2004).
25. Williams, Marxism and Literature, 108. Stuart Hall remarks that in publica-
tions following The Long Revolution, and as oblique response to criticisms proffered
by E. P. Thompson’s review of that book, Williams “appropriated” Gramsci. See Stu-
art Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms,” Media, Culture and Society 2 (1980): 62.
26. Graeme Turner, British Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge, MA:
Unwin Hyman, 1990), 51.
27. For example, Lawrence Grossberg, “The Formation of Cultural Studies,” in
Relocating Cultural Studies, 21–66; Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms,”
57–58; Andrew Goodwin, “The Uses and Abuses of In-discipline: Introduction to the
Transaction Edition,” in Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 1998), xv.