Hegemony and Snowflakes

Immediately the title of Chapter 14, “Cultural Politics and Cultural Policy” is an automatic turnoff. Politics and policy basically sums the chapter as a group of people or a bunch of ideas that will never agree and always dispute each other. Each fighting for power, which paradoxically is one of the first topics brought up in the chapter. All the theories that have been proposed in this book seem to nullify another in one way or another. My favorite quote pertains to cultural studies in this book but I think it pertains to everything we learn in life, “knowledge is never a neutral or objective phenomenon, but a matter of positionality” (441). These blog posts are asking us to do exactly this. Does true radicalism really exist? The issue of subcultures is discussed because of the use of their stylization and morphing of cultures. Humans are like snowflakes, we are unique in a tiny way, but hardly is it noticed.