Reviews for Module theory

The average rating for Module theory based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-14 00:00:00 Linda L Vaughey Notes from final: This reading provides valuable insight and call for the reconsideration of the theoretical study of communication in its conceptualization of culture and identity, gender, race, and the overall manner in which global contexts are established. The consequences of the institutionalization of knowledge are reiterated by Grossberg, who also demonstrates how culture cannot be reduced in such ways that emphasize differences. Cultural studies, Grossberg observes, have the tendency to consider cultural identities as objects, thus making it a trendy subject. The over-emphasis on the politics of identity may have brought theoretical attention to the study of culture, but it has limited its understanding by underlining distances, and thus maintaining differences to establish margins for the outsiders, to the point of even romanticizing the idea of how different things are. Grossberg brings attention to tracing the conceptualization of space, and recognizes that context, or space, per se, is not an empty notion of "somewhere," and that a link needs to be established between context and theory, and how the space in which one is placed has an effect on the sense of belonging one has. Moreover, Grossberg, criticizes the singularity of identity and calls, instead, for a multi-dimensional, inter-disciplinary and self-reflective approach that would not be independent of context. The concept of the power of culture, in this regard, is also relevant, as the reduction of what power is and what the power of culture is also reduces its understanding, rather than articulating and fitting the linkages together by the acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, which is an approach that Grossberg is in favor of.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-04 00:00:00 Dif Sincre These essays are a must read for understanding the practice of Cultural Studies.