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On the Production and Maintenance of Discursive Power
Author(s) -
Timothy MacNeill
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
stream
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-5897
DOI - 10.21810/strm.v1i1.2
Subject(s) - contest , vitality , power (physics) , postmodernism , phenomenon , production (economics) , sociology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , political science , political economy , epistemology , economics , law , philosophy , physics , theology , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics
Contrary to current academic thinking, I argue that cultural policy is not in decline but has simply changed form. The ubiquity and vitality of such policies have been obscured from our vision because we do not actually know what we are looking for. This is the case because we have never established a theoretically informed definition of cultural policy. I offer such a definition here, and suggest that once such an optic is mobilized cultural policy reappears as an essential, vital, ever-present, contentious, and powerful postmodern social phenomenon. It is mobilized locally, nationally, and internationally through and around markets by agents who wish to produce, contest, or maintain fields of discursive power.

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