The cultural intermediary in plutocratic times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12598986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Conlin (0000-0001-6432-5793, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-282 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549414526732 |
| OpenAlex | W2077478166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
The article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the cultural intermediary as a way to think through the combined effect of an intensification of economic inequality with the lack of a viable language of contemporary social class. Through an examination of organizers in art and activist spaces in London in the late 2000s, the article looks at the mixed motivations and contradictory tendencies of these intermediaries. Although fraught with internal conflicts and with the risk of immobilization, a possible basis of an emergent class agency is considered owing to an orientation towards collective practices and an openness to heterogeneous formations stemming from the very lack of conventional class coherence. By directly posing questions of class and inequality, the article makes an intervention into recent research on the cultural intermediary which has been all too silent on these pressing matters
Agency (philosophy · Business · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Inequality · Intermediary · Openness to experience · Political economy · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Marketing
The Precariat
Economies of Signs and Space
Class, Self, Culture
Divided We Stand
Culture, Class, Distinction
Class and Stratification
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The personal is professional
Are we all cultural intermediaries now? An introduction to cultural intermediaries in context
The cosmopolitan tribe of television buyers
Alpha nerds
Decision-making, market logic and the rating mindset
At your service
Bourdieu, the media and cultural production
Symposium Autonomy
Cultural Intermediaries in the Digital Age
Intermediaries and Imaginaries in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Class in the 21st Century
Reality Television and Class
Out of Work or Out of Time? Rethinking Labor after the Financial Crisis
Formations of Class & Gender
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Class and Stratification
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
I'm so Angry I Made a Sign
Who Needs Cultural Intermediaries
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |