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Film Beyond Metaphysics: On Wurzer's Filming and Judgment
Wilhelm S. Wurzer
_Filming and Judgment: Between Heidegger and Adorno_
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1990
ISBN 0391037412 (pb) 0391036874 (hb)
xviii + 149 pp
The Gears of the Collective Imaginary
Regis Debray
_Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms_
Translated by Eric Rauth
New York: Verso, 1996
ISBN 1-85984-972-5 (hb)
ISBN 1-85984-087-6 (pbk)
179 pp
Entre les empires : les cultural studies canadiennes
Cet article est le texte d’une confĂ©rence donnĂ©e sur la prĂ©paration de la première anthologie canadienne de cultural studies (2009). La parution d’un tel ouvrage soulève des questions importantes Ă propos de l’idĂ©e de tradition intellectuelle et de la prĂ©gnance des imaginaires de la nation et du national dans notre comprĂ©hension de la culture. Cette confĂ©rence, comme le livre qu’elle prĂ©sente, fait Ă©tat des ambivalences qui caractĂ©risent gĂ©nĂ©ralement les cultural studies, et les cultural studies canadiennes en particulier. L’idĂ©e de ce projet editorial n’était pas de pas de crĂ©er un ensemble canonique d’écrits sur le Canada, ou qui reflĂ©terait la profondeur d’une quelconque essence canadienne, mais plutĂ´t de saisir la logique des formations spĂ©cifiques de celle-ci, en les mettant en lien avec les intuitions les plus pertinentes et les plus stimulantes que nous offrent les cultural studies qui sont pratiquĂ©es un peu partout.This is the text of Imre Szeman's public conference presenting the first Canadian Anthology of Cultural Studies (2009) which he co-edited. This anthology raises the key questions of intellectual tradition, metaphorical empires, and of the 'national' dimension built into our own critical understanding of culture in Canada. In this conference, Szeman also points to a set of issues concerning Canadian Cultural Studies' particular and ambivalent development in relation to Canada's modernization process and also in relation to the international development of Cultural Studies as a body of cultural criticism and theory.Este artĂculo es el texto de una conferencia dada en torno a la preparaciĂłn de la primera antologĂa canadiense de Cultural studies. La apariciĂłn de esta obra suscita cuestiones importantes en relaciĂłn con la idea de tradiciĂłn intelectual y de la influencia de los imaginarios de la naciĂłn y de lo nacional en nuestra comprensiĂłn de la cultura, cuestiones muy pertinentes en la actualidad. Esta conferencia, como el libro al cual ella se refiere, manifiesta las ambivalencias que caracterizan generalmente los Cultural studies y lo Cultural studies canadienses en particular. La idea no es de crear un conjunto canĂłnico de escritos sobre Canadá, o significar que ellos reflejarĂan la profundidad de una supuesta esencia canadiense, sino de comprender la lĂłgica de sus formaciones especificas, poniĂ©ndolas en relaciĂłn con la instituciones más pertinentes y estimulantes que nos ofrecen les Cultural studies que son practicados en todos lados
Literature on the periphery of capitalism: Brazilian theory, Canadian culture
In order to get past the blind spots that have developed in
contemporary postcolonial theory, it is essential to seek out
complementarities and solidarities in different national situations and in different modernities. This essay undertakes this task by exploring the homologous situations faced in Brazil and Canada in their respective attempts to create genuine national cultures. As in many postcolonial
situations, the problem of creating an authentic culture is directly related to the sense that postcolonial culture is necessarily imitative and belated. In Misplaced Ideas, Roberto Schwarz exposes the hidden class character
of the problem of cultural authenticity in Brazil, and in so doing, shows that the trauma of national-cultural identity merely reflects the contradictory structural position of Brazil’s postcolonial elite. Using Schwarz’s insights to explore the Canadian situation, the author shows that the same forces are at work in Canada. Though the crisis of a lack
of an authentic Canadian culture has recently been surmounted as a result of the apparent international success of Canadian culture (especially literary fiction), that author cautions that this “success” story hides the class basis of Canadian culture in both its belated and isochronic phases (the latter being the moment when cultural belatedness is overcome). Making use of Brazilian theory to examine
problems in Canadian culture allows us to see that Canadian modernity, long thought to be simply a derivative of the UK and USA, has similarities with Brazilian modernity that are essential to understanding the space and place Canada occupies in globalization