Hoggart’s 1950s book opened a new historical conjuncture in cultural politics

Evidence

Already, in the 1950s, this looked like setting free explosive new cultural forces, although it is only clear retrospectively how much the book belonged to the opening of a new conjuncture . — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 161

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Introduces Hall’s concept of ‘conjuncture’ as a historical moment where conditions align — a term central to his method.
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how Hall’s ‘conjuncture’ concept develops across these essays and how it does analytical work in economic thought.

Related

• The conjunctural moment defines both the question and the cultural strategies appropriate to it (similarity 0.79)
• Every moment of cultural politics has a conjunctural specificity shaping its theory and strategies (similarity 0.79)