Driscoll, Catherine
Driscoll, Catherine
Bio Sketch
Catherine Driscoll is a cultural studies scholar (University of Sydney) working on everyday life, gender, and popular culture. Her essay "The Moving Ground: Locating Everyday Life" (2001) examines how cultural studies constitutes the everyday as its object, reading Michel de Certeau's model through its neglected psychoanalytic (Lacanian) foundations. She matters to Geoffrey's research as a metacritical voice on how the everyday is located as an object of analysis.
Key Works
- "The Moving Ground: Locating Everyday Life" (The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2001) — the everyday as the Other of culture; the psychoanalytic foundations of de Certeau; cultural studies' authorization through the everyday's unknowability.
Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
- Everyday Life — the everyday as the unknowable Other that cultural studies constitutes to authorize its own analysis.
Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Driscoll's metacritique parallels Colebrook's and Upton's dissolution of the everyday category: she shows that cultural studies constitutes the everyday as an unknowable Other (via Lacan) to ground its own authority. This is directly relevant to Geoffrey's Theories of the Everyday debate and to how the everyday is set against the spectacular/iconic economy. Her reading of de Certeau's psychoanalytic foundations also complicates the wiki's more materialist readings of de Certeau (tactics, walking, poaching).
Source Support
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