Organic intellectual work resists inscribing itself into metanarratives of achieved knowledge
Evidence
I come back to the difficulty of instituting a genuine cultural and critical practice, which is intended to produce some kind of organic intellectual political work, which does not try to inscribe itself in the overarching metanarrative of achieved knowledges, within the institutions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 259
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Part of defining what makes intellectual work ‘organic’ — refusal of achieved-knowledge metanarratives.
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