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Stuart Hall: “I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.”

From the transcript of this event:

I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t. You can’t, because the world presents itself in a chaos of appearances. And the only way in which one can, as it were, understand, break down, analyze, grasp– in order to do something about the present conjuncture that confronts one– is to break into that series of congealed and opaque appearances with the only tools you have– concepts, ideas, thoughts. To break into it, and to come back to the surface of a situation or conjunction one is trying to explain, but having made that detour through theory– the detour through theory.

https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Through-the-Prism-of-an-Intellectual-Life-Transcript.pdf
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