Raymond Williams

The verbal community and the societal construction of consciousness

by Mark Burton

Television, Broadcasting, Flow: Key Metaphors in Online Media Theory?

by Hallvard Moe

Chapter in Jan Fredrik Hovden and Karl Knapskog (eds) Hunting high and low. Skriftfest til Jostein Gripsrud på 60-årsdagen, Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2012.

Deleuze and Cultural Studies (one paradigm less)

by Greg Seigworth

Revolution and the Rural Imaginary: Committed Realism and Political Ideology in Egyptian Literature

by Kyle J. Anderson

draft only, seminar paper

The events of July 1952 render problematic any attempt to classify the case of Nasser's revolution in Egypt in terms... more The events of July 1952 render problematic any attempt to classify the case of Nasser's revolution in Egypt in terms of a social-scientific typology. Rather than naturalizing the revolution and its attendant social policies as facts of Egyptian history, this paper uses a close-study of three politically-committed, realist novels to uncover how the revolution constituted itself vis-a-vis Egyptian society. By appropriating the complex figure of the peasant as a sign of communal identity, the revolution constructed a political ideology which would be the basis for a new society.

TV after Television Studies: Postcolonial conjectures

by Abhijit Roy

Essay in the book 'Television Studies from India' (tentative title) ed. Abhijit Roy and Biswarup Sen, Oxford University Press, Delhi. (Forthcoming 2012)

Excerpt:
...All I am pointing towards is the continuing need to contextualize and scrutinize the notion of flow... more Excerpt:
...All I am pointing towards is the continuing need to contextualize and scrutinize the notion of flow across histories of television-viewer interface. I think, rather than restricting the notion to Williams’ original sense of a possible structure of programming sequence, we should be more interested in the broader premise in Williams’ theorization, that of the relationship between form and ideology, and the way this relationship calls for reworking the notion of flow. The new institutional contexts are to be found possibly in emerging industries that mediate distribution, a sector “composed of metadata programmers and filtering technology (variously constructed as search engines and adaptive interfaces)”. The notion of flow still seems to be a useful entry-point into any discussion of audiovisual configuration of television and the viewer’s encounter with it. The question is whether invoking the hitherto unaddressed Indian (broadly the postcolonial) television into this discussion can reset the terms of what has been so far an exclusively Western debate on televisual form.

“Agency and the Subjunctive Mode: A Re-reading of Raymond Williams.”

by Georgia Christinidis

Studies in English. Ed. Evrim Dogan. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Going With the Flow: Minimalism as Cultural Practice in Post-War America

by Robert Fink

A final draft version of my chapter for the Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Music.

Minimalism as a cultural practice, analyzed in terms of Raymond Williams's concept of broadcast "flow" in... more Minimalism as a cultural practice, analyzed in terms of Raymond Williams's concept of broadcast "flow" in television. Detailed consideration of temporal isomorphisms between 1970s television (as analyzed by contemporary critics and video artists) and the practice of musical minimalism. Also considers the rise of "post-modern" television practices (remote controls, zapping, MTV) in relation to post-minimalist musical styles. Works discussed include Philip Glass, /Koyaaniqatsi?; John Adams, /Chamber Symphony/.

Balancing McLuhan With Williams: A Sociotechnical View of Technological Determinism

by Liza Potts

Solidarity and the Commons

by Peter D. Thomas

Flow and Mobile Media: Broadcast Fixity to Digital Fluidity

by Kathleen Oswald

Co-authored with Jeremy Packer. Published in J. Packer and S. Wiley (Eds.) Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks

This chapter works to update Raymond Williams' concept of flow to explain the changed relationship between the... more This chapter works to update Raymond Williams' concept of flow to explain the changed relationship between the subject, the screen, mobility, and communication. It is a companion to the article "From Windscreen to Widescreen: Screening Technologies and Mobile Communication" (2010)

From Windscreen to Widescreen: Screening Technologies and Mobile Communication.

by Kathleen Oswald

Co-authored with Jeremy Packer. Published in the Communication Review

This article suggests that studies of mobile media need to be more attentive to the history of screening technologies.... more This article suggests that studies of mobile media need to be more attentive to the history of screening technologies. The development of screening technologies is examined by identifying six characteristics—storage and access, interactivity, mobility, control, informationalization, and convergence/translation—through the context of automobility. A brief history of the informationalization of driving, mobile entertainment in the car, and networked automobiles is used to exemplify how screening technologies work. The article concludes by arguing that the development of screening technologies is central to understanding the processes through which conduct is increasingly organized, monitored, and governed.

• “Modern Science as Emergent Culture: Luzán’s ‘Juicio de Paris renovado: Fábula épica’.” Hispanófila 132 (Fall 2001): 53-68.

by Ruth Hill

Cultural studies is ordinary

by Gilbert Rodman

Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility

by Julia Leyda

in Blackwell Companion to William Faulkner, ed. Richard Moreland (2007)