Culture operates as a weapon of power in modern society

Evidence

Culture is a strategic pedagogical and political terrian whose force as a “crucial site and weapon of power in the modern world” (Grossberg, 1996:142) can be extended to broader public discourses and practices about the meaning of democracy, citizenship, and social justice. Questions of culture in this perspective are not limited to issues of knowledge, mediation, and communication but include relations of power and institutional forms, as well as connection between meaning and the ways in which bodies are organized through particular affective investments, emotions, and desires. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2697

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s hegemony, Stuart Hall’s cultural studies, and the general theme of culture as a contested political terrain rather than mere aesthetic expression. — connects to: Fordism reorganized society and culture, not just production. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 814; Domination of nature, not capitalism, is the decisive event in human cultural history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1397; Working-class people must now perform ruling-class emotional norms to participate in public culture — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 743 (+2 more)