by Nick Mirzoeff — NYU
November 01, 2010 – 07:40
The New Everyday is a MediaCommons project designed to be a reflection space on how everyday life has (and has not) been transformed since the theorizing of the 1980s by Stuart Hall and Michel de Certeau. It’s purpose is to serve as a space of public reflection before (or instead of) the print/refereed publication. You can read more about The New Everyday on the project site.
Hall’s impulse to this project was what he called “The Great Moving Right Show,” or more academically put, Thatcherism’s hegemonic project. It’s easily forgotten now but the analysis of Thatcherism was widely derided at the time, with people on the left insisting that this was simply old fashioned class politics in a slightly dressed up format; that Thatcher was stupid and by extension people were being stupid to vote for her.
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