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Raymond Williams and the Politics of the Commons: The Performative Quality of the Intellectual

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International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22 (5): 691-705 (2019)
DOI: 10.1177/1367877919849958

Abstract

The first part of this article seeks to return to some of the questions posed by Raymond Williams in respect of the critical role that could be played by art in the struggle for a world beyond capitalism. Here I defend the performativity of public intellectuals like Williams as he sought to reconnect ideas produced in the academy to social movements and artistic forms of production which remain necessary in the age of austerity and ecological fragility. Also I explore the art of the commons through an investigation of the cultural production of Raymond Williams and the more recent debates on the commons and neoliberalism.

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