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urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 15 9781951399405 06 10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html 01 01 Defund Culture A Radical Proposal 1 A01 Gary Hall 01 eng 00 97 03 10 ART037000 20 Cultural studies 93 JBCC8 20 Federal government 93 JBCC 10 POL028000 20 Cultural policies & debates 93 JPQ 10 POL038000 03 00 Calls to expand public investment in the arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. Defund Culture challenges this assumption, asking instead what kinds of culture are being supported, through which institutions, and to whose benefit.In pursuing these questions, the book turns attention to the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s creative and intellectual life. Drawing on critical theory, political philosophy, and cultural policy, Gary Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices in the arts, media, and academy is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies. Expanding access within this system—however well intentioned—will not, on its own, produce structural change.Rather than offering a programme of reform, Defund Culture explores what it might mean to disinvest from cultural institutions as they currently operate. Taking cues from abolitionist calls to defund the police, Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, commons-oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality. 04 00 PART 1: WHY THE ARTS ARE SO WHITE, MALE, AND MIDDLE-CLASS Chapter One: The Culture Wars and Attack on the Arts Chapter Two: Culture Must Be ['Defended' Struck-Through] Defunded Chapter Three: Culture in Ruins: "Are We the Bad Guys?" PART 2: AND HERE’S SOME OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO ABOUT IT Chapter Four: Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist Public Space Chapter Five: De-Liberalizing Culture and Theory Chapter Six: Coda References 20 00 Open Access mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press Bethlehem, PA 04 01 20260105 13 15 9781951399436 09 mediastudies.press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2.pdf 99 01 09 mediastudies.press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal 99 01