L Grossberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Grossberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossberg |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3108-3120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 430 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Cultural Studies: What's in a Name? (One More Time) (1995)
Pessimism of the will, optimism of the intellect: Endings and beginnings
This essay argues for the need for an ‘optimism of the intellect’ – in the form of the need for cultural studies – in the face of a growing ‘pessimism of the will.’ It illustrates the value of cultural studies by considering three contemporary problematics: post-truth, polarization and consent
Tilting at windmills: A cynical assemblage of the crises of knowledge
The essay offers one piece of a larger conjunctural analysis, in an effort to contribute to a better story of the contemporary organic crisis. It considers three elements of the complexity of the ‘crises’ of knowledge: First, it explores the increasingly felt social perception that knowledge (and the forms of authority that accompany it) has become less determined and determining, less identifiable, less effective, more troubled. It argues that o…
Searching for Meaghan (Morris)
I am delighted to be here celebrating the unique career of Meaghan Morris, who is, after all, not just a precious intellectual partner (and sometimes mentor) but also a deeply valued friend.1 As it turned out, the invitation to speak at an event honouring Meaghan on the occasion of her retirement provided the pressure I needed to write something I have been trying to write-and postponing-for decades. Why try for so long? Because she is, in my opi…
Between political economy and cultural studies: A response to Bryan and Rafferty
Before commenting on Bryan and Rafferty’s (2017) ‘Reframing austerity: financial morality, savings and securitization,’ I want to say something about the intellectual context in which this conversa
Cultural Studies and Deleuze-Guattari, Part 2: From Affect to Conjunctures
This paper considers the state of the ‘field’ of affect studies and its development – partly through the involvement of one of its authors – over the course of decades. It argues that rather than identifying affect as the ‘other’ of signification and representation, thus ‘subtracting’ it from the conjuncture, one should understand the question of affect to point to the multiplicity of forms of sign behaviours – or, better, of forms of expression …
The Long and Winding Road of Co-Existence
This prefatory note contextualizes the essays that follow by offering a brief history of the conflicted history of efforts to find a place for cultural studies inside the discipline of communication studies
Learning from Stuart Hall, following the path with heart
I have already written and published a more personal reflection of my sense of loss, and of the difficulty of imagining a world without Stuart Hall. So here, I want to do something else, but I am n
Lutando com anjos: Os estudos culturais em tempos sombrios
humanismo (filosófica) e, por fim, sobre o conceito de cultura (empírica).Tais discussões são importantes para que os estudos culturais estendam seus debates além das fronteiras acadêmicas e adotem diferentes estratégias para entender e mudar o mundo
Cultural studies versus économie politique: Qui d'Autre en a Assez De Ce Débat
Ce texte est la traduction d'un article de Lawrence Grossberg publié en 1995 dans la revue Critical Studies in Mass Communication . L'auteur répond à Nicholas Garnham en rejetant la définition et la généalogie que ce dernier donne des cultural studies et de l'économie politique de la communication. Grossberg observe que le courant populiste et célébratoire auquel Garnham assimile les cultural studies est en réalité minoritaire et contesté au sein…
Cultural Studies and Deleuze–Guattari, Part 1: A polemic on projects and possibilities
This paper offers a pedagogically useful way of understanding some of the complexities of the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari. Jody Berland, Lily Chow and some of the anonymous reviewers provided useful editing suggestions. I also want to thank Jennifer Slack, Marty Allor, and especially Charley Stivale, with whom I first read Deleuze and Guattari and to whom I continue to turn for guidance. Meaghan Morris helped me understand Deleuze an…
Contributions to a Conjunctural Theory of Valuation
Debates over the nature of contemporary capitalism, further stimulated by its most recent financial crisis, have led to a renewed problematization of value. Existing understandings of the process of valuation may not make visible what is new or unique in the contemporary conjuncture. This paper presents a diagram of value transformations that is conjunctural in that it arises out of and responds to the conjuncture. It describes the complexity of …
Searching for a Centre: Reading the emergence of cultural studies through CCCS's Annual Reports
This essay uses the first decade's Reports from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to describe the emergence and evolution of the project of cultural studies itself through the early work of the Centre
Interview with Stuart Hall
Culture
In this paper, I reread Raymond Williams's genealogy of the concept of culture from the perspective of the contemporary context. I argue for a more contextual approach to take note of the way the concept has changed and how it has been deployed differently in different historical moments
Interview with Lawrence Grossberg
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence GrossbergLawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. He is a NCA Distinguished Scholar and a Fellow of the ICA. He is the editor of the journal Cultural Studies and his most recent book is Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke University Press, 2010
Interview with Lawrence Grossberg
Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That all There is
Will Work for Cultural Studies
A Note from the Editors
Affect’s Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual
Cultural Studies in the Future Tense
Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense , he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a vision for the future of cultural studies as conjunctural analysis, a radically contingent and contextual study of the articulations of lived, discurs…
Modernity and Commensuration: A reading of a contemporary (economic) crisis
This piece considers the financial crisis of 2008 through the lens of the derivative, by locating both the derivative and the crisis in the broader context of post-war US conjuncture. Drawing upon the work of Marx, Postone and von Mises, I argue that the derivative can be seen as a response to the collapse of any viable logic of commensuration. Its failure has to be understood, again, in the context of broader conjunctural struggles, constituted …
On the political responsibilities of cultural studies
Standing on a Bridge: Rescuing Economies From Economists
This essays considers what it would mean --and some of the kinds of work and inquiry it would demand --for scholars in cultural studies to take economies and economics seriously and to integrate such matters into conjunctural analysis. It locates the task within the present conjuncture, characterized as a set of struggles over what it means to be modern
On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall
Does Cultural Studies Have Futures? Should It? (Or What's the Matter With New York): Cultural studies, contexts and conjunctures1
This paper examines the state of cultural studies, primarily in the United States and Northern Europe. Arguing for a radically contextualist and conjuncturalist understanding of the project of cultural studies, it suggests that cultural studies emerged in particular forms as a response to a particular geo-historical conjuncture. However, while the conjuncture has changed significantly, these older forms of cultural studies have congealed into a '…
Another boring day in paradise: Rock and Roll and the Empowerment of Everyday Life
About five years ago, I began to teach courses on the cultural history of rock and roll. My approach was simple: I would try to describe the texts, interpreting the significance produced by the unique synthesis of musical texture and lyrical content. Then I would suggest correspondences to the situation of its audiences which were mediated through the institutional practices of production and consumption. The music obliquely represented and respo…
Can Cultural Studies Find True Happiness in Communication
Journal Article Can Cultural Studies Find True Happiness in Communication? Get access Lawrence Grossberg Lawrence Grossberg 1Lawrence Grossberg is a professor in the Department of Speech Communication, the Institute of Communications Research, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volum…
The In-Difference of Television
Journal Article The In-Difference of Television Get access Lawrence Grossberg Lawrence Grossberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 1987, Pages 28–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.2.28 Published: 01 March 1987
Interview with Stuart Hall
History, Politics and Postmodernism: Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies
The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in American Culture
The rise and visibility of youth culture in the United States after the Second World War is marked, most prominently, by the emergence of rock and roll.' Some have argued that this reduction of art to commodity is merely the final stage in the production of the human subject as consumer: passive, acritical and unable to define political opposition. Others have argued that rock and roll, precisely as a form of leisure, has a cultural politics base…
The cultural studies' crossroads blues
This article examines the current state of cultural studies. It argues for the need to delimit the field of cultural studies, proposing that the specificity of cultural studies as a way of politicizing theory and theorizing politics is given by its radical contextuality. It then goes on to consider some of the challenges that the contemporary context poses to cultural studies, and which cultural studies has been largely unable to address. It sugg…
On the Road with Three Ethnographers
The ideology of communication: Post-structuralism and the limits of communication
Contributions to a Conjunctural Theory of Valuation
Debates over the nature of contemporary capitalism, further stimulated by its most recent financial crisis, have led to a renewed problematization of value. Existing understandings of the process of valuation may not make visible what is new or unique in the contemporary conjuncture. This paper presents a diagram of value transformations that is conjunctural in that it arises out of and responds to the conjuncture. It describes the complexity of …
El corazón de los estudios culturales: Contextualidad, construccionismo y complejidad
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
The victory of culture, Part I: Against the logic of mediation
Cultural studies, the war against kids, and the re-becoming of US modernity1
Postscript
Rockin' with Reagan, or the Mainstreaming of Postmodernity
here is, in the United States today, a vague discomfort-if not an outright paranoia-about the new generations of youth, variously characterized as conservative, cynical, selfish, complacent, nihilistic, apolitical, and mean. Brett Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero2 (one of the more chilling representations of this new generation), offers a vision in which conservativism has not only engulfed his beloved aesthetic and political refuge-Benning…
You [still] have to fight for your right to party: Music Television as Billboards of Post-Modern Difference
Rock music has not only provided the soundtrack of our lives, but a large part of the image repertoire as well. Neither the conjunction of popular music and other media (including television and film) nor the inseparable relation between rock and roll and visual iconographies, styles and attitudes is new. Nevertheless, it is clear that the force of these conjunctures in our cultural lives is rapidly spreading, viral-like, across media, genres, co…
Does Communication Theory Need Intersubjectivity? Toward an Immanent Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations
(1982). Does Communication Theory Need Intersubjectivity? Toward an Immanent Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 171-205
Experience, signification, and reality: The boundaries of cultural semiotics
Putting the Pop Back into Postmodernism
Discussions of postmodernism increasingly dominate writings in cultural theory and criticism, and they are already entering into more popular discourses of and about popular culture. But the term postmodernism is beguiling, not only because it appears to place us outside history, or, at least, already within the future, but also because it is such a readerly term; it leaves so much to the imagination of the reader. Although everyone seems to agre…
Marxist dialectics and rhetorical criticism
Marxist dialectics has three components or alternative forms: thought, description, and discourse. Each provides a different reading of the nature of critical language and of the status of the rhetorical interest. Finally, dialectics locates language within the social formation; rhetoric itself constitutes a social formation as a domain of communicative space
Lutando com anjos: Os estudos culturais em tempos sombrios
humanismo (filosófica) e, por fim, sobre o conceito de cultura (empírica).Tais discussões são importantes para que os estudos culturais estendam seus debates além das fronteiras acadêmicas e adotem diferentes estratégias para entender e mudar o mundo
Interview with Lawrence Grossberg
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence GrossbergLawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. He is a NCA Distinguished Scholar and a Fellow of the ICA. He is the editor of the journal Cultural Studies and his most recent book is Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke University Press, 2010
Why Does Neo‐Liberalism Hate Kids? The War on Youth and the Culture of Politics
The forum
Colloquy: I. Presuppositions, conceptual foundations, and communication theory: On Hawes’ approach to communication
Interpreting the "Crisis" of Culture in Communication Theory
The tradition of mass media effects research and the work of Innis, McLuhan, Dewey, Carey, Williams, and Habermas are explored through their images of the cultural crisis and how they conceive of communication
Marxist dialectics and rhetorical criticism
Marxist dialectics has three components or alternative forms: thought, description, and discourse. Each provides a different reading of the nature of critical language and of the status of the rhetorical interest. Finally, dialectics locates language within the social formation; rhetoric itself constitutes a social formation as a domain of communicative space
Does Communication Theory Need Intersubjectivity? Toward an Immanent Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations
(1982). Does Communication Theory Need Intersubjectivity? Toward an Immanent Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 171-205
Intersubjectivity and the conceptualization of communication
The ideology of communication: Post-structuralism and the limits of communication
Experience, signification, and reality: The boundaries of cultural semiotics
The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in American Culture
The rise and visibility of youth culture in the United States after the Second World War is marked, most prominently, by the emergence of rock and roll.' Some have argued that this reduction of art to commodity is merely the final stage in the production of the human subject as consumer: passive, acritical and unable to define political opposition. Others have argued that rock and roll, precisely as a form of leisure, has a cultural politics base…
Strategies of marxist cultural interpretation
This essay distinguishes ten approaches to the methodology for the interpretation of cultural texts and messages within the terrain of Marxist theory. By analyzing concrete exemplars of each position, the essay presents each approach as a strategic response to two issues: the nature of significance, and the relationship between culture (signifying practices) and society (structures of power and domination)
Another boring day in paradise: Rock and Roll and the Empowerment of Everyday Life
About five years ago, I began to teach courses on the cultural history of rock and roll. My approach was simple: I would try to describe the texts, interpreting the significance produced by the unique synthesis of musical texture and lyrical content. Then I would suggest correspondences to the situation of its audiences which were mediated through the institutional practices of production and consumption. The music obliquely represented and respo…
An introduction to Stuart Hall's essay
(1985). An introduction to Stuart Hall's essay. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 87-90
Is there rock after punk
This symposium essay offers a broad framework within which to interpret the place of rock and roll in the everyday lives of its fans. It uses this framework to analyze the current “crisis” of rock and roll, arguing that the instability of the rock and roll culture is due, on the one hand, to the paradox which punk presented to rock and roll, and on the other hand, to the intersection of events which are currently changing the very significance of…
Reply to the critics
History, Politics and Postmodernism: Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies
On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall
The In-Difference of Television
Journal Article The In-Difference of Television Get access Lawrence Grossberg Lawrence Grossberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 1987, Pages 28–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.2.28 Published: 01 March 1987
Wandering audiences, nomadic critics
(1988). Wandering audiences, nomadic critics. Cultural Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 377-391
Rockin' with Reagan, or the Mainstreaming of Postmodernity
here is, in the United States today, a vague discomfort-if not an outright paranoia-about the new generations of youth, variously characterized as conservative, cynical, selfish, complacent, nihilistic, apolitical, and mean. Brett Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero2 (one of the more chilling representations of this new generation), offers a vision in which conservativism has not only engulfed his beloved aesthetic and political refuge-Benning…
You [still] have to fight for your right to party: Music Television as Billboards of Post-Modern Difference
Rock music has not only provided the soundtrack of our lives, but a large part of the image repertoire as well. Neither the conjunction of popular music and other media (including television and film) nor the inseparable relation between rock and roll and visual iconographies, styles and attitudes is new. Nevertheless, it is clear that the force of these conjunctures in our cultural lives is rapidly spreading, viral-like, across media, genres, co…
Cultural studies: The circulation of cultural studies
On the Road with Three Ethnographers
Putting the Pop Back into Postmodernism
Discussions of postmodernism increasingly dominate writings in cultural theory and criticism, and they are already entering into more popular discourses of and about popular culture. But the term postmodernism is beguiling, not only because it appears to place us outside history, or, at least, already within the future, but also because it is such a readerly term; it leaves so much to the imagination of the reader. Although everyone seems to agre…
Rethinking Communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm Exemplars
Postmodernist Elitism and Postmodern Struggles
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