Cultural theory is responsible for having brought gender, race, power and environment, flesh, desire, and madness, to the fore, but it has come also to have been coopted by capitalism as an exercise in farce with an emphasis on diversity, and transgression: (precisely those seemingly rebellious qualities that capitalism trades in).
Cultural theory is marked by a shift in the object of analysis from the tribe to the text. As a result of this, our work begins to look more and more like critical narcissism and less and less like the explanatory discipline that Dilthey so vividly imagined.
Cultural theory is today, no longer a dissenting intellectual movement committed to exposing power in all its cultural forms and finding ways to resist it. It has degenerated into an exercise in intellectual futility, not to say into farce'.
Cultural theory is today, nothing but a mildly interesting way of talking about wuthering heights, an 'eccentric hobby,' a 'gentrified version' of the revolutionary philosophy it used to be.
Cultural theory is theory aiming at the production of better people through the social transformation of society the goal is to help the lion to awaken.