13 Douglas Kellner sözleri (2024)

Douglas Kellner

Seeing culture and society as a field of contestation with forces of domination and resistance, repression and struggle, co-optation and upheaval, provides a more dynamic model than that of certain forms of Marxism or feminism that primarily see the dominant culture as one of domination and oppression, or of populist cultural studies that excessively valorizes resistance, overlooking the moments

of domination. By contrast, envisioning society and culture as contested terrains articulates the openings and possibilities for social transformation, and the potentials for resistance and struggle, as well as providing a critique of ideology and domination.

Douglas Kellner

Belki de artık, dilin hapishanesini terk edip
tarihin kesimevine doğru hareket etmenin
zamanıdır.
-CORNEL WEST

Douglas Kellner

The Simpson affair was also a class spectacle, which revealed that money could buy the best lawyers and technical experts and ultimately an acquittal. If commodity logic saturates everything, truth can be bartered and justice bought. The trial put on display the privileges of wealth, as it portrayed the affluent lifestyles of Simpson, Nicole, and their social circles. Indeed, part of the seduction

of the trial was the fascination with class and wealth in a hypercapitalist society. The entire megaspectacle spawned a proliferation of books, articles, TV tabloid exposés, and other artifacts that displayed the opulence of upper-class life and intimate details of the affluence and decadence of the Simpson circles.

Douglas Kellner

While some critics talk incessantly about cultural studies as a historical phenomenon, or endlessly debate the method and concepts of cultural studies, I do cultural studies through dissection of the production of texts, textual analysis of its meanings, and study of their effects and resonance, deploying a multiperspectivist approach.

Douglas Kellner

Sinema . . . hayaletlerin birbiriyle yarışıdır.

Douglas Kellner

Capitalist society separates workers from the products of their labor, art from life, and consumption from human needs and self-directing activity, as individuals inertly observe the spectacles of social life from within the privacy of their homes.

Douglas Kellner

...the concept of “postindustrial” society is highly problematic. The concept is negative and empty, failing to articulate positively what distinguishes the alleged new stage. Hence, the discourse of the “post” can occlude the connections between industrial, manufacturing, and emergent hi-tech industries and the strong continuities between the previous and present forms of social

organization, as well as covering over the continued importance of manufacturing and industry for much of the world.

Douglas Kellner

The social construction of reality is generated in part through symbolic interaction between life experience and appropriation of media culture. This is, of course, a dialectical process by which personal experience is mediated, articulated, and focused by media culture, but in which interpretations and uses of the media are constructed by individuals in real-life situations.

Douglas Kellner

Popular music is also colonized by the spectacle, with music-video television (MTV) becoming a major purveyor of music, bringing spectacle into the core of musical production and distribution. Madonna and Michael Jackson would never have become global superstars of popular music without the spectacular production values of their music videos and concert extravaganzas.

Douglas Kellner

As Baudrillard (1983b; 1993) argues, media “reality” is a “hyperreality,” a world of artificially constructed experience that is “realer than real,” that purifies the banality of everyday life to create an exciting world of mass mediated, technologically processed experience that is often far more involving and intense than ordinary life.

Douglas Kellner

İçine gömülü olduğumuz varsayımları
anlamadıkça kendimizi anlayamayız.
. . . Feminist itkiyle hareket eden . . . radikal
bir eleştiri, her şeyden önce, nasıl
yaşadığımıza, nasıl yaşamış olduğumuza,
kendimizi nasıl tahayyül etmeye
yöneltildiğimize ilişkin bir ipucu sunmayı
amaçlamak zorundadır...
-ADRIENNE RICH