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"Although its sex appeal has since faded somewhat, the optimistic branch of cultural studies now rules within the academy´s humanistic disciplines. Its academic practitioners place all 'cultural products'--including objets d´ art as traditionally defined, along with the artifacts of popular culture--on the same level, as specimens to be analyzed, not evaluated. Indeed, the concept of evaluation is itself regarded (theoretically, at least) as another datum to be analyzed."
" . . . cultural theorists do not refrain from making judgments of value. What they do refrain from is basing those judgments on the standards of excellence worked out by artists (and critics) within a certain tradition. Instead, they apply their own standards, which begin with the assumption that all cultural products are ultimately about power and possess value only to the degree that they attack the established social order."
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