Cultural Studies and Cultural Value

This is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, but through careful readings of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall, and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow undermines this assumption. He argues for a much-needed reorientation of cultural studies - starting from a revitalized and `poststructuralist' account of social class, and a recognition of the complexity of the category of culture.