Tag Archives: Recuperation

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

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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Cyborgs and Posthumans: The Slipstream of Theory

In this chapter, I will examine a change which has occurred in cultural theory within these last twenty or so years; metaphors and concepts from the science fiction genre (sf) has to an increasing extent turned up in order to express occurrences in contemporary culture. Generally, these concepts are used to turn events into facts, [...]

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Dominant culture and sf

If we argue that the Imaginary of dominant culture is always a combination and culmination of appropriated forms and plagiarizings (Halberstam & Livingston, Posthuman Bodies), in other words a form of cultural and social recuperation (Hebdige, The Meaning of Style), then we begin to get an idea of the process of cultural dissemination and the [...]

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