THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON CULTURAL STUDIES IN POST-MODERNITY AND THE (UN)CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY(IES): BRIEF READINGS

Abstract

The idea of writing this essay came from the discipline entitled "advanced topics in culture" which takes place in the Master's Degree in Human and Social Sciences at UFOB. The readings about the "cultural turn", as Stuart Hall defines it in one of his analyses of Cultural Studies, made me realize that culture did not have an investigative space in the formation of people in Modernity, however, it was centralizing this place in post-Modernity. People were seen as "individuals", standardized, unique and unchangeable, built to respect an imposed standard of hegemonic and perfect ideology of what can be considered a human being. However, with the cultural advances and the epistemological production based on it, culture is indeed a beacon and embryonic in the "formation" issue, that is, identities start from it. In this way, in today's society one cannot ignore, as in the past, the importance of culture in the formation of subjects, as well as, these cultural studies have gone beyond the walls and, consequently, a third place, of transformation, creation, gains its rightful space, because it is in them that other identities are built capable of changing a structuralist trajectory of thought.