On bullshit in cultural policy practice and research: notes from the British case
On bullshit in cultural policy practice and research: notes from the British case
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DOI：
10.1080/10286630902806080
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Belfiore, Eleonora
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作者：
Belfiore, Eleonora
2005年，哈里·G.法兰克福是普林斯顿大学道德哲学的退休教授，他的书《论狗屎》登上了畅销书排行榜。本文以他的文章为切入点，探讨了对胡说的分析以及胡说在当代公共领域的流行。法兰克福的短文确实提供了一个知识框架，以解释和理解当代修辞和实践中的文化政策领域，以及最近的趋势，在文化政策研究。本文通过对英国新工党文化政策文件的分析，指出文化政策辩论中的许多关键人物确实表现出“对事物本质的漠视”和既得利益的培养，而法兰克福则将其归因于胡说八道的活动。本文的最后一部分讨论了目前的现状对“批判性”文化政策研究的影响。
In 2005, Harry G. Frankfurt, a retired professor of moral philosophy at Princeton University, made it into the best-sellers chart with his book On Bullshit. Taking his essay as its starting point, this article explores the analysis of bullshit and the prevalence of bullshitting in the contemporary public sphere. Frankfurt's short essay indeed provides an intellectual framework to interpret and understand contemporary rhetoric and practice in the cultural policy field, as well as recent trends in cultural policy research. Through a discussion of selected New Labour's cultural policy documents in Britain, the article aims to show that many of the key actors in the cultural policy debate indeed display the 'indifference to how things really are' and the cultivation of vested interests which Frankfurt attributes to the activity of bullshitting. The final part of the text discusses the implications of the present status quo for 'critical' cultural policy research.