{"id":1667,"date":"2024-07-11T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/?page_id=1667"},"modified":"2024-07-11T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:26:40","slug":"clit2105-marxism-critical-theory-and-real-cultural-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/clit2105-marxism-critical-theory-and-real-cultural-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"CLIT2105: Marxism, critical theory, and real cultural studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 Credits| <a href=\"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/faculty\/daniel-vukovich-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Daniel VUKOVICH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This course surveys texts and problems within the fields of Marxist and critical theory broadly defined.\u00a0 In the final section of the course it then examines cultural studies (in the Williams-Hall or Birmingham tradition) not as a substitute for critical theory but arguably the best way to use it via the analysis of culture and society.\u00a0 Texts will vary by instructor and term offered. Marxism will be studied not as a specific political program or blueprint, but as a method as well as a theoretically-driven analysis of capitalism, modernity, and globalization. Critical theory (e.g. the Frankfurt School, Foucault, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, select philosophers) will be studied as an interlocutor, or even a challenge to Marxism\u2019s explanatory powers.\u00a0 Cultural studies, via representative examples within the field, will be presented as a way to combine textual with contextual and social criticism via the \u201cdetour through theory.\u201d The aim is less to produce new theory, or to prove\/disprove current theory, than to produce what Richard Johnson referred to as \u201creally useful knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Assessment: 100% coursework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Credits| Prof. Daniel VUKOVICH This course surveys texts and problems within the fields of Marxist and critical theory broadly defined.\u00a0 In the final section of the course it then examines cultural studies (in the Williams-Hall or Birmingham tradition) not as a substitute for critical theory but arguably the best way to use it via &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/clit2105-marxism-critical-theory-and-real-cultural-studies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CLIT2105: Marxism, critical theory, and real cultural studies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1667","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1667\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}