Monthly Review, July 1st, 1995
Cultural studies have always tended to blend politics into culture, and that trend is being extended today, much to the discredit of its originators. That popular culture grows out of supposed higher forms its main function is subordination of the masses.
Among the more striking intellectual phenomena of these putatively postmodern times is the rise, in the metropolitan academy, of the new discipline of cultural studies. I say "new" because cultural studies properly understood was never merely the organized study of "culture"; it was, from the start, a directed, self-consciously oppositional ...
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