Treating culture as static totalized object differs from treating it as dynamic enunciation

Evidence

The former, he argues, treats culture as an object of empirical knowledge - as static, totalized, and historically bounded, as something to be valued but not necessarily lived. The latter is the process of the enunciation of culture as “knowledgeable,” as adequate to the construction of systems of cultural identification. This involves a dynamic conception of culture - one that recognizes and incorporates the ongoing fluidity and constant change that attends its articulation in the modern world. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 951

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marks Bhabha’s cultural diversity vs. cultural difference distinction — a useful conceptual tool for any writing on identity politics.