Tag Archives: Cultural production

Celebrity Pastiche

It is this relationship between the old and new celebrity icons which is interesting. There is no parodic thrust to any of these shoots, but rather a desire to recreate, perhaps even channel or ressurect, the old icons. Margaret Rose refers to pastiche as reviving things from the past, without parody’s incongruous structure or comic [...]

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PhD viva examination

Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.

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Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production

In this book, Bourdieu focusses on how the field of cultural production has been established and how it connects to other fields, such as the fields of power and class. He shows how culture is a symbolic struggle for the primacy of specific works, as well as the naturalization of certain practices.

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