文化研究与政治经济学的构连:论道格拉斯·凯尔纳的批判理论

Articulation between Cultural Study and Political Economy——on Douglass Kellner's Critical Theory

文化研究的后现代转向以降,新修正主义和民粹主义滥觞;而西方左翼文化理论的精英化倾向使文化研究有越来越趋于僵化的危险。凯尔纳认为,媒介文化与大众传播已经成为当代文化的新形式和主要场所,阶级仍然是形塑当代生活方式的重要因素。因此,文化研究必需回归当代文化的具体语境和马克思主义的阶级分析方法,广泛借用批判的社会理论,融合政治经济学的结构批评。以推进启蒙和解放事业为目标,建构批判性媒介文化理论,才是当代文化研究的复活之路。

Since the postmodern turn of cultural study,it begins the era of new revisionism and populism.The elite inclination of Western left-oriented intellectual put a threat to the stagnation of cultural study as well.Douglass Kellner holds that media culture and mass communication have dominated the contemporary culture,but class is still an important factor in the formation of culture.To revive cultural study,it must construct a critical media theory,which goes back to the contextuality of contemporary culture and the method of class analysis,embraces various critical social theories,combines political economy,and promotes enlightenment and emancipation with cultural activism.