There does appear to be a type of school-of-thought here. Much like the School of Cultural Studies in London (now defunct, or reassigned) has an interdisciplinary confluence of specific interersts. These lend themselves towards public-criticism, or public-opinion. Or I am leading them in this direction. There is the credibility of academic practices or disciplines, and the credibility as well of intellectuals.
Thus this school of "Cultural Critique", might be similar in tenor, an effort to establish a field-of-study or perspective on cultural practices and ideoogical thematics. Somehow I join in this examination of the effects of popular-culture, from an intellectual perspective. I would like to see a more generative cultural melthodology develop, not merely to simply examine cultural processes or (de)institutional formations but as well to develop specific perspectives, perhaps from methodological concerns, towards an understanding of the effects that such themes have on ideological processes, and likely as group or inderdisciplinary concerns or subject-areas, if at first. Demographic groups within the population, academics, the public, interested audiences; situational places such as towns or cities; these social thematics or disciplines; and methods-of-analysis - might more properly constitute the thematic components of this inquiry.
Eventually through series of entries to a more commom consesnus of cultural-criticism, and a type of school-of-thought. Will these various disciplinary boundaries remain? Who knows some may be annexed, others ammended or added. Because I suspect that the Public-Intellectual does serve a kind of function within society, though this remains in a sense to be adjudicated or developed into a cultural function. Thus there is yet also a truer entreaty of post-modern and post-industrial processes.
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