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New Conformism Redux

Charles Acland

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Charles Acland

Résumé de la communication

In the last years of his life, Raymond Williams worked on a study of modernism, taking stock of the political residue of a number of movements including Futurism, Expressionism, Naturalism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Formalism. This work, appearing posthumously and incomplete in The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists in 1989, has been described as internally contradictory with respect to its topics and as directly responding to the authoritarian conditions of Thatcherism, an interpretation made irresistible by the subtitle. But these new conformists were also to be found among the cultural left. Williams targeted forms of cultural criticism that, perhaps unwittingly, found itself unmoored from an initial politicized avant-gardist position and resituated as a form of exclusive "bourgeois dissidence." Tellingly, this analysis of modernism broke into assessments of the future of cultural studies as a theoretical enterprise. In so doing, it appears that the new conformists, at least in part, referred to us. Nearly two decades later, his concerns remain current. Working against an orthodox strain of avant-gardism in cultural critique, this essay addresses some of the ways in which cultural studies today can benefit from a reinvigorated engagement with popular forms and with cultural materialism.

Résumé du colloque

Le colloque se situe tout juste après la vingtième année du décès de Raymond Williams, et marque ainsi le début d'une relecture critique de cette oeuvre que le monde francophone a encore à découvrir. Comme nous savons également que des traductions (vers le français) de certaines oeuvres de Williams sont en cours, nous croyons contribuer ainsi à élargie la réception critique de cette oeuvre qui est appelée à être davantage connue dans le domaine des sciences de la culture.

Contexte

Section :

Raymond Williams et les sciences de la culture

Thème du colloque :

Raymond Williams et les sciences de la culture

Hôte : Université d’Ottawa

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