Sentences with phrase «french cultural theorist»

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The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»

Other cultural touchstones don't get off scot - free either — there are jabs at the highbrow (French theorist Roland Barthes), the populist (Justin Bieber) and the likes of Michael Fassbender, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for donning cowls for cash.

The French novelist and theorist André Malraux, who was Minister for Cultural Affairs in Charles de Gaulle's government from 1959 — 69, wrote a book, The Museum without Walls (1967), in which he proposed the possibility of a museum that is not dependent on location but is, instead, carried inside one's head.

Inspired partly by the French critical theorist Roland Barthes, who viewed mass cultural images as signs freighted with latent meaning to be deciphered, she first gained attention for a series of artworks starkly displaying newspaper snippets (headlines, photographs), forcing viewers to examine the way they responded to media's authoritative voice.