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That's entertainment' Generation X in the time of New Labour

This school, most commonly associated with the work of ronald ingelhart and his collaborators, argues that generational changes provide the key to some of the most salient cleavages in politics and social attitude which prevail today.7 locating a seismic shift in political values amongst the generation which grew up in the conditions of affluence of the 1950s and 60s, these commentators argue that the emergence of new types of issues on the political agendas of modern states is a direct result of this generation's concern for quality of life issues, now that their basic economic security had been guaranteed, as well as of the impact of movements like feminism on a wide range of young people. Politics and voting: a briefing paper published by the british youth council, london, 1995; and d.walker, 'young people, politics and the media', in young people's social attitudes, barnados publishing, london, p l 2 1 . 192  that's entertainment meaningful spaces for political debate or sources of initiative and ideas for the parent party.

To Stanworth and Beyond: Reflections on DIY politics and the Anti-Roads Movement

Whilst some ef!ers apparently expressed the 'need for more allies, especially coming from groups with similar objectives', there is clearly a suspicion of mainstream politics on the part of some of the most committed d1y activists, which extends to organisations which it seems barmy not to see other than as absolutely necessary allies.3 p art of this suspicion of people who are not, now, doing exactly what the most radical diy activists are currently involved in mirrors a lack selfconsciousness about the roots and background of their own politics. ncreasing numbers of articles in the left and liberal press - from red pepper and new times to new statesman and society and the guardian - were pointing to and amplifying the voices of the varied new protest movements: campaigners against the criminal justice act; animal rights activists at shoreham and coventry; environmental activists from road alert and earth first!.

The Undergrowth Of Enjoyment: How Popular Culture Can Serve As An Introduction To Lacan

New formations number 9 winter 1989 slavoj zizek the undergrowth of enjoyment: how popular culture can serve as an introduction to lacan the english reception of jacques lacan, predominantly at least, has still not integrated all the consequences of the break marked by the seminar on ethics of psychoanalysis (1959-60), a break which radically shifted the accent of his teaching: from the dialectics of desire to the inertia of enjoyment (jouissance), from the symptom as coded message to the sinthome as letter permeated with enjoyment, from the 'unconscious structured like a language' to the thing in its heart, the irreducible kernel of jouissance that resists all symbolization.1 the aim of the present article is to exemplify some of the key motifs of this last stage of lacanian theory via a reading of certain narratives borrowed from popular cinema and literature. to indicate the specificity of this one, lacan coined the neologism le sinthome: the point which functions as the ultimate support of the subject's consistency, the point of 'thou art that', the point marking the dimensions of 'what is in the subject more than itself and what it therefore 'loves more than itself, that point which is none the less neither symptom (the coded message in which the subject receives from the other its own message in reverse form, the truth of its desire) nor fantasy (the imaginary scenario which, with its fascinating presence, screens off the lack in the other, the radical inconsistency of the symbolic order).

I Want The Black One: Is There A Place For Afro-American Culture In Commodity Culture?

In considering the politics of black hair-styles, mercer defines an approach to consumer society that sees commodities giving new forms of access to black people's self-expression.22 mercer contrasts the social meanings associated with the afro, a hair-style popular amongst black radicals in the 1960s, and the general cultural movement that promoted 'black is beautiful' on into the 1970s, with the conk, a hair-style contrived during the late 1930s and early 1940s by urban black males. 35 wynter's optimistic account of the power of stigmatized black and popular culture to create a system of subversive counter-meanings leads her to see minstrelsy as i want the black one 91  the place where black culture 'began the cultural subversion of the normative bourgeois american reality'.