Cultural Studies must address material conditions beneath textual meaning.

Evidence

I’m dwelling on the “dirtiness” of it: the dirtiness of the semiotic game, if I can put it that way. I’m trying to return the project of Cultural Studies from the clean air of meaning and textuality and theory to the something nasty down below. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 238

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the tension between textualism and materialism that also animates Parable of the Sower’s grounded, survivalist worldview.