各位好,
今天第一次讀書會應該算是個好的開始,謝謝大家都能來,並熱情參與討論,
感謝陳巨擘老師的導讀,清楚之外,也修補了我閱讀經驗的貧乏。相信大家多少有同感。
其次,今天未能與會者,期待你們也能於十月二十五日參加第二次讀書會。目前地點暫訂高雄,細節我再傳閱。
由於下次的文章是What is Cultural Studies Anyway。能否徵求或推薦有志者扮導讀者?可否於一週內向我報名。
導讀費用是一仟六百元,並補助車馬費。
今天的上半場,都有錄音,會請助理整理出來,下半部錄音有誤,可能會以筆記整理為主。
如有任何的需求,請告知。
也請有意於明年四月一同參與江森活動者,告知可能的想法,我們可提早計畫及組織。
Kind regards,
Yu-Hsuan Lee
宇軒
2008-09-13
927
各位好,
九二七當日如開車入成大醫學院停車場,請告知警衛本讀書會於餐廳舉行,應可停車。而時間再提醒一次,2:00至5:00,會後可於餐廳用餐。
而我今天放了一個小短片,是江森兩三年前與我們討論的過程,不論內容談什麼,主要說明他老人家總是精神,大老遠聽學生的問題,耐心地回答
由於檔大,且個人科技能力不好,只能放這剪下來的,品質問題見諒。
另外,也偷渡一下別的事件,寶順(鼎立)工會罷工,有待支持。http://www.coolloud.org.tw/
宇軒
九二七當日如開車入成大醫學院停車場,請告知警衛本讀書會於餐廳舉行,應可停車。而時間再提醒一次,2:00至5:00,會後可於餐廳用餐。
而我今天放了一個小短片,是江森兩三年前與我們討論的過程,不論內容談什麼,主要說明他老人家總是精神,大老遠聽學生的問題,耐心地回答
由於檔大,且個人科技能力不好,只能放這剪下來的,品質問題見諒。
另外,也偷渡一下別的事件,寶順(鼎立)工會罷工,有待支持。http://www.coolloud.org.tw/
宇軒
2008-09-08
炎炎秋日,來南部讀書
各位好,
927讀書會時間地點已確認,希望大家第一次都能與會,先認識、熱身一下。
由於本案已申請到國科會的經費,有些補助,如導讀者的講費及差旅、與會者的餐會及影印等,經告知,目前採實報實銷制,我不會經手錢,都將按領據或收據報帳(沒有特別費!)大概兩個月報帳一次,
第一次導讀者是陳巨擘老師,我們會提供單槍供其使用外,也跟他及其他日後可能導讀者說明,請你們要向學校請"公差假"即便是週六,也請向學校人事室請假條,我們才能向國科會請款。請註明差旅經費來源是國科會,經典研讀會。
宇軒
927讀書會時間地點已確認,希望大家第一次都能與會,先認識、熱身一下。
由於本案已申請到國科會的經費,有些補助,如導讀者的講費及差旅、與會者的餐會及影印等,經告知,目前採實報實銷制,我不會經手錢,都將按領據或收據報帳(沒有特別費!)大概兩個月報帳一次,
第一次導讀者是陳巨擘老師,我們會提供單槍供其使用外,也跟他及其他日後可能導讀者說明,請你們要向學校請"公差假"即便是週六,也請向學校人事室請假條,我們才能向國科會請款。請註明差旅經費來源是國科會,經典研讀會。
宇軒
2008-09-05
2008-09-01
letters between Richard and me, regarding his visit to Taiwan and our reading group
以下所列的書信體,幫助大家多認識江森,
我將近期和他通信的內容轉貼如下,其實也可由書信內容做分析,
我想接下來讀書會的對話,或許我們也應該整理出來,編成專書或專文?我希望用各種形式來辦江森的活動,大家如果系所也想共襄盛舉,協辦或出人出錢都歡迎!
宇軒
Re: Selections and alternative sources
寄件者： Richard Johnson (http://bl140w.blu140.mail.live.com/mail/ApplicationMain_13.1.0132.0805.aspx?culture=zh-TW&hash=271179879#)
寄件日期：
2008年7月12日 上午 11:18:29
收件者：
Lee Yu-Hsuan (blue95_7399@msn.com)
Dear Lee,
I have just got back from a week's holiday and am away tomorrow and Sunday at the CND Council in London. This is a rather formidable list of questions, of the sort one might expect for a permanent full-time post! However, I do very much appreciate your efforts, Lee and I am still keen to come, and will choose to see this information as part of the dialogue, so when I get back I will try and see if I can find the information and the documents you ask for.
warm wishes
Richard
On 7 Jul 2008, at 07:18, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard,I just consulted a senior scholar who is in charge of the application with respect to your visit. He implies that I need to make your background more explicit for those examiners related to other areas, such as science. So, I perhaps need your good memory to recall your works overseas and their timelines.
For example, I list some questions for you to follow.
1. When did you teach in other countries and make visits to places in US and Europe for intellectual exchanges?
2. Why do you think the best examples as teaching 'Compact Courses' - a week or so long on national identity - in two German Universities - the Humbolt University in Berlin and the Cultural Studies Centre at Tubingen - both famous for this work?
3. What themes did you work with Stanley Aronowitz at the Graduate Centre at City University New York?
4. What is your role in the Erasmus cultural studies circle, a European wide network? Do you have engaged in any similar organisation?
5. What is the main contribution of you and your works during the CCCS life (I know it is a silly question, but I don't know how to make a judgment to be honest)?
6. Also, what is your role during the time at the NTU?
7. Would you be able to talk more about your roles in WEA and other public activities? (I know some are in the CV, but I need to know more about these organisations and your participation).
8. Would you be about to make a long list about any forums (education/social/...) you have been involved? And explain a bit for us?
All these questions are very important for me to revise an introduction of you that related to the funding and further works for mobilisation. As one organiser suggests, we may like to organise a reading group beforehand, and also organise a team to translate those articles and publish that in Chinese. Also, we would like to make the passage of your trip into a video documentary. Thus, there are a lot of issues to be prepared. As for certificates, I wonder if you have any contracts or a letter of appointment, which might be more important than the PhD certificate. Sorry about all these paper work and procedure. If possible, would you please provide these above by the end of July?
Thank you a lot.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: blue95_7399@msn.comTo: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comSubject: RE: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:15:14 +0800
Dear Richard, Nice to have your positive responses. I will try my best to organise some good people to arrange this event and make the agenda more explicit.As for information, if possible, please give me a formal list as you address as follows. At the moment, I put you in a position - chair forum professor - which seems to be kind of "eminent" (whatever) scholars. To be honest, I really have no idea of that title. But it needs evidence to legitimate. So, if there is no evidence, I would change this status into kind of visiting professor. You definitely had many experiences and memories. Would you be able to give me a list recently, including these experiences and memories in detail? I will like to try again and see if the bureaucracy can really see the difference. Anyway, I am looking forward to your coming indeed. And I really admire that you still work so hard to fight against the hegemony.
Once you prepare the certificates or PhD, please let me know. I will tell you how to send to Taiwan.
Sorry, I am not experienced in doing this, so some tedious things emerge at some points.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Re: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:55:27 +0100
Dear Lee,
Thank you for kick-starting once more the discussion about my visit. there is something very interesting in the way you hit on things that really fit and correspond with my thinking. This last month I have been busy working on a paper about city education in Leicester, that amounts to some educational and political changes that focus on the reinvention of a school board - a directly elected single issue local authority for education, to meet the current democratic deficits and form a centre of resistance to central government and the global tendency to privatisation. Also of course I have been working against the current plan to expand the nuclear power industry here which has involved writing to MPs and framing policies for national and regional CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
So you van see that your version of the visit fits very easily with my inclinations and perhaps my most recent expertise. Of course, I should need t o know in advance more about the issues in Taiwan.
I am happy with what you suggest. Especially about the resistance to the grand tour, and star like qualities. I am more than happy to remain in the South - which sounds fascinating - and have much more intensive discussions than is usually possible.
I would be happy to do a workshop series on the themes you describe or a series of one-offs with different groups. In fact I love all 4 your questions -they are so much part of my agenda. Perhaps i would rephrase your first a little. It is more a question of what aspects are really useful and how cultural studies can be made to work for local politics. I suppose this involves saying what 'it' is, but there are so many versions and I think my own is quite particular and perhaps it is in tension with dominant ones today, especially in the anglophone academy. This distance increases perhaps as I move away from academic practices and ethos. I don't mean move away from intellectual effort and truth-seeking of course - you know what i mean. So I suppose the first session or section would be a general (but also personal) orientation to this kind of knowledge and its usefulness. The format of a week- or longer-workshop sounds fine. And definitely the spirit of CCCS - not always so harmonious!!!
The info you ask for:
Visits -
I have not done an extended visit before, like a fellowship or something, but I have taught in other countries and of course made many shorter visits to places in US and Europe for intellectual exchanges. I don't know whether you want a systematic list of these. It is a very long list!! I might be able to abstract them from earlier cvs. But probably the best examples would be teaching 'Compact Courses' - a week or so long on national identity - in two German Universities - the Humbolt University in Berlin and the Cultural Studies Centre at Tubingen - both famous for this work. I also worked for a short while at Roskilde, an experimental university in Denmark, and I had a longish visit or two to work with Stanley Aronowitz at the Graduate Centre at City University New York. I have also spent some days at the European University at Fiesole, Italy examining students and giving talks. I was involved with the Erasmus cultural studies circle, a European wide network that involved visits to several European countries with groups of students. These are all from memory. Lee - if you want dates etc I will try and look them up.
No problem in principle in sending you passport copies or copies of certificates. I am not sure I can find all my certificates, but probably I could find my Cambridge Ph.D - which is my 'higher degree' Would that do?
I shall be away for a week from this Friday. But will reply to any reply of yours before I go. Sorry for occasional time-lags!
Excellent proposals Lee
Cheers
Richard
On 1 Jul 2008, at 03:17, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard,
Recently, I talked with a senior scholar who is experienced and insightful in organising the events with respect to the inviting professor. We have exchanged some ideas in preparing your coming next year, which might be more productive than just some openly intellectual forums as suggested earlier.
First, we need you to stay basiclly in the southern part of Taiwan. That means you don't need to be like a celebrity traveling around Taiwan, receivng the greetings and PR every day. You might want to give some lectures in the universities, but the key task is a dialogue between your biography and this historical moment of TW.
Second, this arrangement is a serious consideration to reflect on the tensions between intellectual works and community works. By community I refer to a wider sense of locally embedded issues (agriculture, aborginal people, cultural policy, etc.), adult-education organisations, social movements, and institutionalised structures of political economy (e.g., local governments). Some advisers, those who dedicate their whole life to both intellectual and community works, are suggesting me to invite you to look at our local problems in the south. Once you and we can work together to examine some organisations and people's needs and problems, we may know how to let the questions lead our further discussions.
So, I, as a key facilitator, am not keen on making your visit as a star-like tour, but will let you and local org/people learn how to pose/answer some key questions as follows:
1. What is cultural studies anyway? (in the case of Taiwan, specifically for local communities)2. What can we learn from different visions and lessons between TW and UK, say, adult education, community work/education, social movements?
3. What are the blackholes of org/people in dedicating theirselves to local issues?
4. What are the strategies/tactics/ethos we should have?...............
If you are happy with this kind of arrangement, we will organise the event as early as possible as there are a lot of cases and resources worth mobilisation. As I am still apply for your funding from the university, I wonder if you might provide some photocopies of official certificates for reference, i.e., a graduation certificate, a passport photocopy. This procedure is needed for our government to examine the backgrounds of inviting scholars, including their labour rights, ID, etc. I am still thinking the way in which you can provide me these photocopies. Is the post available for you? Also, have you had been the inviting professor before? If yes, can you also give me specific information regarding this ? (I know it is a bit silly, but the university's staff is not in our realm. I am really upset over this requirement from the bureaucracy.) Anyway, my goal is clearer now. Your trip should be the practice of cultural studies for the local instead of a replication of a common tendency of intellectual studies/PR events from above.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: blue95_7399@msn.comTo: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comSubject: RE: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:24:41 +0800
Yes, Richard, I am thinking to get all those items of WPCS. And I actually have an idea and wonder whether it is doable. Shall we try to replay kind of WPCS' spirit in Taiwan during your fieldtrip? Is there any form you prefer to organize this one-month event? In addtion to some seminars concerning different topics, I think that an innovative way to have a workshop-like discussion might let people think back those days of CCCS. So, I wonder that a one-week or 5-day workshop might be a way in mobilising all scholars and students throughout Taiwan?
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Selections and alternative sources Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:18:08 +0100
Lee, the reference is not to the original WPCS but to a recently published selection from WPCS and Stencilled Papers which is in two volumes and has recently been published by Routledge. So, though expensive, it should be possible for your library to buy them. The original CCCS WPCS are rare items indeed - you are lucky to have any! I suggested this because i thought it would be easier! I do have all the original WPCS volumes and also the reprinted two vol selection.
However, several items have also been published elsewhere - thus:
1.What is Cultural Studies anyway? is reprinted in a number of different places e.g. in the US journal Social Text (n part) and in a reader edited by Ann Gray and David Morely (in full I think).
2.'Really Useful Knowledge' is also in the volume edited by myself, John Clarke and Chas Critcher, Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory , one of the original Hutchinson volumes, about 1979 from memory. See my bibliog again. Can you get the Making Histories volume, again on the the original Hutchinson volumes? The p[iece on Marx is important to see the influence of Marxism on method as well as on my view of capital etc.
I am assuming people will also have access to The Practice of Cultural Studies where some of the arguments in What is CS Anyway? have been further developed, especially the circuit model and its relation to method. So you could use that chapter instead.
I've got the Chen, Asian Cultural Studies vol now - it looks very interesting.
Very best
Richard
On 4 Jun 2008, at 17:16, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard, Thanks. It is a pity that libraries in Taiwan do not have CCCS Selected Working Papers. I will check if the library can buy it. Do you have the copies of them? I had 1, 3, and 4.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Re: Third legs and reading groupsDate: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:23:47 +0100
Dear Lee,
Here are my suggestions. Bearing in mind availability too. You should be able to find the full references in my cv bibliography.
No particular order.
1. 'What is Cultural Studies Anyway?' This has also recently been reprinted in the Routledge CCCS archive volumes Ann Gray et al., (eds) CCCS Selected Working Papers 2 Volumes Vol 1. London: Routledge 2007 (Useful if your library had these volumes for my visit).
2. 'Really Useful Knowledge' Radical Education and Working-Class Culture 1790-1848' This is also in Vol 1 of the Routledge collection.
3. 'Reading for the Best Marx: History-Writing and Historical Abstraction' in Making Histories
4. 'Post-Hegemony? I don't Think So' TCS Vol 24, No3.
5."Washington's Favourite' in Steinberg and Johnson, Blairism and the War of Persuasion.
Let me know if any of these are not available and I can suggest others.
Warm wishes
Richard
我將近期和他通信的內容轉貼如下,其實也可由書信內容做分析,
我想接下來讀書會的對話,或許我們也應該整理出來,編成專書或專文?我希望用各種形式來辦江森的活動,大家如果系所也想共襄盛舉,協辦或出人出錢都歡迎!
宇軒
Re: Selections and alternative sources
寄件者： Richard Johnson (http://bl140w.blu140.mail.live.com/mail/ApplicationMain_13.1.0132.0805.aspx?culture=zh-TW&hash=271179879#)
寄件日期：
2008年7月12日 上午 11:18:29
收件者：
Lee Yu-Hsuan (blue95_7399@msn.com)
Dear Lee,
I have just got back from a week's holiday and am away tomorrow and Sunday at the CND Council in London. This is a rather formidable list of questions, of the sort one might expect for a permanent full-time post! However, I do very much appreciate your efforts, Lee and I am still keen to come, and will choose to see this information as part of the dialogue, so when I get back I will try and see if I can find the information and the documents you ask for.
warm wishes
Richard
On 7 Jul 2008, at 07:18, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard,I just consulted a senior scholar who is in charge of the application with respect to your visit. He implies that I need to make your background more explicit for those examiners related to other areas, such as science. So, I perhaps need your good memory to recall your works overseas and their timelines.
For example, I list some questions for you to follow.
1. When did you teach in other countries and make visits to places in US and Europe for intellectual exchanges?
2. Why do you think the best examples as teaching 'Compact Courses' - a week or so long on national identity - in two German Universities - the Humbolt University in Berlin and the Cultural Studies Centre at Tubingen - both famous for this work?
3. What themes did you work with Stanley Aronowitz at the Graduate Centre at City University New York?
4. What is your role in the Erasmus cultural studies circle, a European wide network? Do you have engaged in any similar organisation?
5. What is the main contribution of you and your works during the CCCS life (I know it is a silly question, but I don't know how to make a judgment to be honest)?
6. Also, what is your role during the time at the NTU?
7. Would you be able to talk more about your roles in WEA and other public activities? (I know some are in the CV, but I need to know more about these organisations and your participation).
8. Would you be about to make a long list about any forums (education/social/...) you have been involved? And explain a bit for us?
All these questions are very important for me to revise an introduction of you that related to the funding and further works for mobilisation. As one organiser suggests, we may like to organise a reading group beforehand, and also organise a team to translate those articles and publish that in Chinese. Also, we would like to make the passage of your trip into a video documentary. Thus, there are a lot of issues to be prepared. As for certificates, I wonder if you have any contracts or a letter of appointment, which might be more important than the PhD certificate. Sorry about all these paper work and procedure. If possible, would you please provide these above by the end of July?
Thank you a lot.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: blue95_7399@msn.comTo: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comSubject: RE: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:15:14 +0800
Dear Richard, Nice to have your positive responses. I will try my best to organise some good people to arrange this event and make the agenda more explicit.As for information, if possible, please give me a formal list as you address as follows. At the moment, I put you in a position - chair forum professor - which seems to be kind of "eminent" (whatever) scholars. To be honest, I really have no idea of that title. But it needs evidence to legitimate. So, if there is no evidence, I would change this status into kind of visiting professor. You definitely had many experiences and memories. Would you be able to give me a list recently, including these experiences and memories in detail? I will like to try again and see if the bureaucracy can really see the difference. Anyway, I am looking forward to your coming indeed. And I really admire that you still work so hard to fight against the hegemony.
Once you prepare the certificates or PhD, please let me know. I will tell you how to send to Taiwan.
Sorry, I am not experienced in doing this, so some tedious things emerge at some points.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Re: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:55:27 +0100
Dear Lee,
Thank you for kick-starting once more the discussion about my visit. there is something very interesting in the way you hit on things that really fit and correspond with my thinking. This last month I have been busy working on a paper about city education in Leicester, that amounts to some educational and political changes that focus on the reinvention of a school board - a directly elected single issue local authority for education, to meet the current democratic deficits and form a centre of resistance to central government and the global tendency to privatisation. Also of course I have been working against the current plan to expand the nuclear power industry here which has involved writing to MPs and framing policies for national and regional CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
So you van see that your version of the visit fits very easily with my inclinations and perhaps my most recent expertise. Of course, I should need t o know in advance more about the issues in Taiwan.
I am happy with what you suggest. Especially about the resistance to the grand tour, and star like qualities. I am more than happy to remain in the South - which sounds fascinating - and have much more intensive discussions than is usually possible.
I would be happy to do a workshop series on the themes you describe or a series of one-offs with different groups. In fact I love all 4 your questions -they are so much part of my agenda. Perhaps i would rephrase your first a little. It is more a question of what aspects are really useful and how cultural studies can be made to work for local politics. I suppose this involves saying what 'it' is, but there are so many versions and I think my own is quite particular and perhaps it is in tension with dominant ones today, especially in the anglophone academy. This distance increases perhaps as I move away from academic practices and ethos. I don't mean move away from intellectual effort and truth-seeking of course - you know what i mean. So I suppose the first session or section would be a general (but also personal) orientation to this kind of knowledge and its usefulness. The format of a week- or longer-workshop sounds fine. And definitely the spirit of CCCS - not always so harmonious!!!
The info you ask for:
Visits -
I have not done an extended visit before, like a fellowship or something, but I have taught in other countries and of course made many shorter visits to places in US and Europe for intellectual exchanges. I don't know whether you want a systematic list of these. It is a very long list!! I might be able to abstract them from earlier cvs. But probably the best examples would be teaching 'Compact Courses' - a week or so long on national identity - in two German Universities - the Humbolt University in Berlin and the Cultural Studies Centre at Tubingen - both famous for this work. I also worked for a short while at Roskilde, an experimental university in Denmark, and I had a longish visit or two to work with Stanley Aronowitz at the Graduate Centre at City University New York. I have also spent some days at the European University at Fiesole, Italy examining students and giving talks. I was involved with the Erasmus cultural studies circle, a European wide network that involved visits to several European countries with groups of students. These are all from memory. Lee - if you want dates etc I will try and look them up.
No problem in principle in sending you passport copies or copies of certificates. I am not sure I can find all my certificates, but probably I could find my Cambridge Ph.D - which is my 'higher degree' Would that do?
I shall be away for a week from this Friday. But will reply to any reply of yours before I go. Sorry for occasional time-lags!
Excellent proposals Lee
Cheers
Richard
On 1 Jul 2008, at 03:17, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard,
Recently, I talked with a senior scholar who is experienced and insightful in organising the events with respect to the inviting professor. We have exchanged some ideas in preparing your coming next year, which might be more productive than just some openly intellectual forums as suggested earlier.
First, we need you to stay basiclly in the southern part of Taiwan. That means you don't need to be like a celebrity traveling around Taiwan, receivng the greetings and PR every day. You might want to give some lectures in the universities, but the key task is a dialogue between your biography and this historical moment of TW.
Second, this arrangement is a serious consideration to reflect on the tensions between intellectual works and community works. By community I refer to a wider sense of locally embedded issues (agriculture, aborginal people, cultural policy, etc.), adult-education organisations, social movements, and institutionalised structures of political economy (e.g., local governments). Some advisers, those who dedicate their whole life to both intellectual and community works, are suggesting me to invite you to look at our local problems in the south. Once you and we can work together to examine some organisations and people's needs and problems, we may know how to let the questions lead our further discussions.
So, I, as a key facilitator, am not keen on making your visit as a star-like tour, but will let you and local org/people learn how to pose/answer some key questions as follows:
1. What is cultural studies anyway? (in the case of Taiwan, specifically for local communities)2. What can we learn from different visions and lessons between TW and UK, say, adult education, community work/education, social movements?
3. What are the blackholes of org/people in dedicating theirselves to local issues?
4. What are the strategies/tactics/ethos we should have?...............
If you are happy with this kind of arrangement, we will organise the event as early as possible as there are a lot of cases and resources worth mobilisation. As I am still apply for your funding from the university, I wonder if you might provide some photocopies of official certificates for reference, i.e., a graduation certificate, a passport photocopy. This procedure is needed for our government to examine the backgrounds of inviting scholars, including their labour rights, ID, etc. I am still thinking the way in which you can provide me these photocopies. Is the post available for you? Also, have you had been the inviting professor before? If yes, can you also give me specific information regarding this ? (I know it is a bit silly, but the university's staff is not in our realm. I am really upset over this requirement from the bureaucracy.) Anyway, my goal is clearer now. Your trip should be the practice of cultural studies for the local instead of a replication of a common tendency of intellectual studies/PR events from above.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: blue95_7399@msn.comTo: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comSubject: RE: Selections and alternative sourcesDate: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:24:41 +0800
Yes, Richard, I am thinking to get all those items of WPCS. And I actually have an idea and wonder whether it is doable. Shall we try to replay kind of WPCS' spirit in Taiwan during your fieldtrip? Is there any form you prefer to organize this one-month event? In addtion to some seminars concerning different topics, I think that an innovative way to have a workshop-like discussion might let people think back those days of CCCS. So, I wonder that a one-week or 5-day workshop might be a way in mobilising all scholars and students throughout Taiwan?
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Selections and alternative sources Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:18:08 +0100
Lee, the reference is not to the original WPCS but to a recently published selection from WPCS and Stencilled Papers which is in two volumes and has recently been published by Routledge. So, though expensive, it should be possible for your library to buy them. The original CCCS WPCS are rare items indeed - you are lucky to have any! I suggested this because i thought it would be easier! I do have all the original WPCS volumes and also the reprinted two vol selection.
However, several items have also been published elsewhere - thus:
1.What is Cultural Studies anyway? is reprinted in a number of different places e.g. in the US journal Social Text (n part) and in a reader edited by Ann Gray and David Morely (in full I think).
2.'Really Useful Knowledge' is also in the volume edited by myself, John Clarke and Chas Critcher, Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory , one of the original Hutchinson volumes, about 1979 from memory. See my bibliog again. Can you get the Making Histories volume, again on the the original Hutchinson volumes? The p[iece on Marx is important to see the influence of Marxism on method as well as on my view of capital etc.
I am assuming people will also have access to The Practice of Cultural Studies where some of the arguments in What is CS Anyway? have been further developed, especially the circuit model and its relation to method. So you could use that chapter instead.
I've got the Chen, Asian Cultural Studies vol now - it looks very interesting.
Very best
Richard
On 4 Jun 2008, at 17:16, Lee Yu-Hsuan wrote:
Dear Richard, Thanks. It is a pity that libraries in Taiwan do not have CCCS Selected Working Papers. I will check if the library can buy it. Do you have the copies of them? I had 1, 3, and 4.
Kind regards,Yu-Hsuan Lee
From: richard.johnson61@btinternet.comTo: blue95_7399@msn.comSubject: Re: Third legs and reading groupsDate: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:23:47 +0100
Dear Lee,
Here are my suggestions. Bearing in mind availability too. You should be able to find the full references in my cv bibliography.
No particular order.
1. 'What is Cultural Studies Anyway?' This has also recently been reprinted in the Routledge CCCS archive volumes Ann Gray et al., (eds) CCCS Selected Working Papers 2 Volumes Vol 1. London: Routledge 2007 (Useful if your library had these volumes for my visit).
2. 'Really Useful Knowledge' Radical Education and Working-Class Culture 1790-1848' This is also in Vol 1 of the Routledge collection.
3. 'Reading for the Best Marx: History-Writing and Historical Abstraction' in Making Histories
4. 'Post-Hegemony? I don't Think So' TCS Vol 24, No3.
5."Washington's Favourite' in Steinberg and Johnson, Blairism and the War of Persuasion.
Let me know if any of these are not available and I can suggest others.
Warm wishes
Richard
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