Stefan Collini

In What Is Cultural Criticism?, Francis Mulhern and Stefan Collini propose alternative understandings of what 'culture' means: is it a rear-guard projection of values excluded by capitalist modernity, or a useful shorthand for a set of collectively practised prompts to reflection? The debate opens with Mulhern’s account in Culture/Metaculture of what he terms metacultural discourse. This has embraced two opposing...