Tag Archives: Power

Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production

By Steen | May 5, 2006

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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Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

By Steen | May 3, 2006

Hebdige’s classic work on subculture shows us much about how those commonly referred to as the dominated, do in fact resist this domination in complex ways.

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Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction

By Steen | May 2, 2006

In this expansive work, Bourdieu investigates the implications of taste based on social class. It is a massive work, much of it established through questionnaires, which is always a method I feel uncomfortable about. Bourdieu, however, is very reflexive of the method and even critically investigates it. This certainly adds to the usefulness of the [...]

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Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

By Steen | October 9, 2005

No wonder that Heinlein is regarded as one of the premiere sf writers and why practically all who discuss sf poetics have to at least mention Heinlein briefly. His ability to create other worlds through language is quite impressive, especially since it always seems so easy and logical. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is [...]

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George A. Romero, Land of the Dead

By Steen | August 5, 2005

It could also be called Barbarians at the Gates. In the trailers, the speaker announced that Romero returns to the genre that he invented which is of course a half-truth. There have been plenty of zombie films before Romero, such as I Walked with a Zombie. However, the use of the zombie as one of [...]

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