Culture spans everyday social reproduction and aesthetic practice as one contested process

Evidence

By culture here I do not simply mean the realm of formal and intentional representations, ideas, aesthetic practices and objects, and interventions. Nor do I mean culture in the purely anthropological sense of the deeply seated codes, norms, performances of self and social institutions germane to the reproduction of social life that are often obscured to those who practise and live by them. I mean both these ideas of culture wrapped up within one another. Culture here refers both to the way we live our lives and reproduce our social surroundings, and to the way we do this through the arts, literature, play, teaching and learning, and an infinite variety of other practices. I understand culture as intimately connected to the way societies and individuals reproduce themselves, though in this approach reproduction does not imply mindless replication. Instead, it implies a complex, conflicted, contestatory, creative and reflexive process. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 114

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s two-tiered definition of culture as lived reproduction plus formal aesthetic practice, a framing that structures the whole argument.
• XREF: Reads like a groundwork statement that could connect to deWaard’s cultural argument about financialization colonizing everyday imagination. — connects to: Cultural struggle peaks where opposed traditions intersect and compete over shared forms — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1017; Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 399; Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural struggle peaks where opposed traditions intersect and compete over shared forms #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1017
• Working-class culture emerges from its material conditions combined with class struggle #exemplifies (0.85)
• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 399
• Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159
• Capitalism’s material system is interwoven with cultural reproduction #corroborates (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 122
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #complicates (0.75)
• Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming. #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2043
• Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters #expands (0.75)