From the Organic to the Celebrity Intellectual: Relocating the Cultural Studies Practitioner
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JOURNAL:
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', Minnesota Review,
52-54(??),
215 -
224.
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YEAR:
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2001
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Journal Article
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intellectuals
celebrity
organic intellectuals
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Cultural Studies
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-378-033
(Last edited on
2004/02/16 22:11:37 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
This paper examines cultural studies' preoccupation with the figure of the organic intellectual and suggests that another figure-that of the celebrity intellectual-might offer a more useful model for conceptualizing the material realities of intellectual practice today. While most cultural studies practitioners do not fall into the category of the celebrity intellectual, I argue that this figure is nevertheless an important one for cultural studies as it represents a kind of indicator of the broader status of expertise and authoritative knowledge in contemporary society. Furthermore, I suggest that, while the notion of the organic intellectual tends to partially function as a means by which cultural studies practitioners disavow the structures of class privilege and mobility that underpin the social location of the intellectual, the celebrity intellectual offers a more pragmatic conception of contemporary intellectual life. In particular, the image of the celebrity intellectual actively foregrounds questions of social location, bringing into sharp focus the dialectical relationship between the figure of the intellectual and the sphere of the popular.
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