Language Quote by Stuart Hall

“People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.” quote by Stuart Hall — Download Open image

“People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.”

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My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…

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I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.

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“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…

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The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here.

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Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images.…

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The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

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“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody…

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I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…

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“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”

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“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…

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While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.

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