{"id":103,"date":"2008-06-23T07:20:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:20:18","slug":"counter-hegemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/23\/counter-hegemonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter Hegemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

hope we can start something like this in the Philippines where there seems to be extreme void in intelligent discourse !
\nfrom here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(Counter)-hegemonic memes<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Although the left invented the concept <\/a>of cultural <\/a>hegemony<\/a>, they (we) have been pretty bad at practicing it. In many ways, it is the right\u2019s preconceptions that are still hegemonic – for example, its use of \u201cmiddle class\u201d to mean rich, or its stigmatizing of single parents, welfare claimants, trades unionists or public sector workers.
\nWhich raises the question. Shouldn\u2019t we try to start an alternative hegemony?
\nThis would not consist in more than just challenging the above preconceptions. Indeed, merely to challenge them is to lend them credence. To say \u201cwelfare claimants are not scroungers\u201d is like a man saying \u201cI don\u2019t beat my wife.\u201d It doesn\u2018t establish his innocence, but draws attention to suspicions.
\nNo. What we need is something bolder, alternative memes. I\u2019ll get you started with three quick \u2018uns:
\n….
\nI offer this as a mere start. We can never tell which memes will take and which won\u2019t, so it\u2019s best to spread a load of them and see what grows.
\nThe point of these, though, is not to be explicitly \u201cradical\u201c or \u201ctransgressive.\u201d Instead, it\u2018s to claim that we should take for granted certain things, which only idiots or extremists would challenge; this is how the right regards the above-mentioned claims.
\nAnd don\u2019t be hung up by the \u201ctruth.\u201d After all, the right wasn\u2019t when it began those successful hegemonic memes.
\nThe point about hegemonic memes is not that they are \u201ctrue\u201c: no simple statement about people or society is ever wholly true, a fact which usually only the most fatuous pedant points out. Instead, they act as default positions – things that are believed as a matter of course by many people, and whose challengers are regarded as marginal or eccentric.
\nSo, what will be the new hegemonic positions?<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

June 22, 2008 <\/span> |<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

hope we can start something like this in the Philippines where there seems to be extreme void in intelligent discourse ! from here: (Counter)-hegemonic memes Although the left invented the concept of cultural hegemony, they (we) have been pretty bad at practicing it. In many ways, it is the right\u2019s preconceptions that are still hegemonic … <\/p>\n

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