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Populism, Media and Education, 2016
Digitalization of Society and Socio‐political Issues 2, 2020
This article examines two critical research traditions in communications, as well as the relation... more This article examines two critical research traditions in communications, as well as the relations between them: on the one hand, the Frankfort School’s Critical Theory of Media and, on the other, the political economy of communication. While it is commonly acknowledged that the latter has roots in the former, this acknowledgement often lacks epistemological depth. As a result, research on the subject is sometimes ambiguous as to what exactly the political economy of communication, especially in the English, French and Quebec traditions, has appropriated of the concepts and epistemologies of the Critical Theory. By focusing on two specific elements of importance to both approaches (the relation to materialism, and the place and role of cultural and media production), the author proposes here to epistemologically embrace this heritage, over and above mere usual effects of display.
Cet article propose de retracer les rapports entre production culturelle et ideologie dans la pen... more Cet article propose de retracer les rapports entre production culturelle et ideologie dans la pensee adornienne au-dela du chapitre “Kulturindustrie” dans la dialectique de la raison. Il s’agit de retracer, depuis les premiers travaux sur la situation sociale de la musique et jusqu’aux developpements plus tardifs de la Dialectique negative, en passant par les enquetes americaines sur la culture de masse, les liens qu’Adorno etablit entre le capitalisme comme mode de production, la realite textuelle des productions culturelles et la construction des imaginaires et des subjectivites. Cette exploration revele une pensee adornienne attachee a la notion marxienne de “fetichisme de la marchandise” qui a pour corollaire une interpretation des enjeux poses par la question de la valeur d’usage des marchandises qui s’eloigne de l’acception marxiste traditionnelle pour, neanmoins, mieux revenir a Marx.
Communication, 2020
Le champ academique de la critique des medias connait depuis longtemps une opposition celebre et ... more Le champ academique de la critique des medias connait depuis longtemps une opposition celebre et ancienne entre deux approches : l’economie politique de la communication et les cultural studies. L’hypothese que l’auteur pose ici, apres avoir etudie les limites des principales tentatives d’integration des deux approches, est que l’articulation des deux doit aussi composer avec des enjeux strategiques dans la liberalisation et la marchandisation du monde academique.
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Jan 26, 2018
SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, 2013
Broadly speaking, analysis of television advertising music is usually focused on one or the other... more Broadly speaking, analysis of television advertising music is usually focused on one or the other of two general types, original advertising music or pre-existing music. This reflects disciplinary dichotomies, where musicology and interpretative disciplines in general pursue textual analysis of original musical material while political economy analyses strategies towards copyright and licensing of existing music within the field of advertising and the cultural industries as a whole. This article tries to bridge this disciplinary gap by focusing on a hybrid category: advertising musical covers. Our aim is to demonstrate and discuss how communication and promotional strategies, economic lures and artistic wills all blend together in the musical arrangement of advertising covers. The focus on these ’in-betweens’ affords an analysis of musical rationalization in advertising composition, which can be linked to socioeconomic strategies to be found within the field.
Journal des anthropologues, 2015
Populism, Media and Education, 2016
Digitalization of Society and Socio‐political Issues 2, 2020
This article examines two critical research traditions in communications, as well as the relation... more This article examines two critical research traditions in communications, as well as the relations between them: on the one hand, the Frankfort School’s Critical Theory of Media and, on the other, the political economy of communication. While it is commonly acknowledged that the latter has roots in the former, this acknowledgement often lacks epistemological depth. As a result, research on the subject is sometimes ambiguous as to what exactly the political economy of communication, especially in the English, French and Quebec traditions, has appropriated of the concepts and epistemologies of the Critical Theory. By focusing on two specific elements of importance to both approaches (the relation to materialism, and the place and role of cultural and media production), the author proposes here to epistemologically embrace this heritage, over and above mere usual effects of display.
Cet article propose de retracer les rapports entre production culturelle et ideologie dans la pen... more Cet article propose de retracer les rapports entre production culturelle et ideologie dans la pensee adornienne au-dela du chapitre “Kulturindustrie” dans la dialectique de la raison. Il s’agit de retracer, depuis les premiers travaux sur la situation sociale de la musique et jusqu’aux developpements plus tardifs de la Dialectique negative, en passant par les enquetes americaines sur la culture de masse, les liens qu’Adorno etablit entre le capitalisme comme mode de production, la realite textuelle des productions culturelles et la construction des imaginaires et des subjectivites. Cette exploration revele une pensee adornienne attachee a la notion marxienne de “fetichisme de la marchandise” qui a pour corollaire une interpretation des enjeux poses par la question de la valeur d’usage des marchandises qui s’eloigne de l’acception marxiste traditionnelle pour, neanmoins, mieux revenir a Marx.
Communication, 2020
Le champ academique de la critique des medias connait depuis longtemps une opposition celebre et ... more Le champ academique de la critique des medias connait depuis longtemps une opposition celebre et ancienne entre deux approches : l’economie politique de la communication et les cultural studies. L’hypothese que l’auteur pose ici, apres avoir etudie les limites des principales tentatives d’integration des deux approches, est que l’articulation des deux doit aussi composer avec des enjeux strategiques dans la liberalisation et la marchandisation du monde academique.
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Jan 26, 2018
SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, 2013
Broadly speaking, analysis of television advertising music is usually focused on one or the other... more Broadly speaking, analysis of television advertising music is usually focused on one or the other of two general types, original advertising music or pre-existing music. This reflects disciplinary dichotomies, where musicology and interpretative disciplines in general pursue textual analysis of original musical material while political economy analyses strategies towards copyright and licensing of existing music within the field of advertising and the cultural industries as a whole. This article tries to bridge this disciplinary gap by focusing on a hybrid category: advertising musical covers. Our aim is to demonstrate and discuss how communication and promotional strategies, economic lures and artistic wills all blend together in the musical arrangement of advertising covers. The focus on these ’in-betweens’ affords an analysis of musical rationalization in advertising composition, which can be linked to socioeconomic strategies to be found within the field.
Journal des anthropologues, 2015