As they put it: «Bourdieu argued that cultural capital, that is familiarity with
the dominant cultural codes in a society, is a key determinant of educational success because it is misperceived by teachers as academic brilliance and rewarded as such.»
PEET's practice can best be described as a kind of
coded, free - form
cultural assemblage, a combination of made and found materials that prods and questions
dominant systems of authority, class, and institutional display.