This thread presents a different agenda for studying culture and the culture industries in particular, one that is grounded in a distinctly cultural studies materialist reflexivity. Cultural studies is probably best understood as the politically committed, theoretically grounded, and radically self-reflexive and historical-materialist analysis of cultural processes and practices, where the commitment to imagine a humane, socialist society has always been a guiding assumption in the field from its early formations in post-war Britain.
Articles by Stefano Harney
\Stefano Harney, Chair in Strategy, Culture and Society, is the Director of Global Learning for the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Business World (forthcoming) and State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (2002).\