‘Common sense’ … the traditional popular conception of the world – what is unimaginatively called ‘instinct’, it is in fact a primitive and elementary historical acquisition. (Gramsci, ‘Selection from Prison Notebooks’ p. 199, 1971) Common sense appears when we tend to experience the particular ‘realities’ of our cultural world as fixed and unalterable. This Bank Holiday weekend, as I watched my neighbours break all the social distancing rules, I’ve been thinking about common sense and how it’s shaped.
#23 Gramsci & shaping a 'Common sense' in flux
#23 Gramsci & shaping a 'Common sense' in…
#23 Gramsci & shaping a 'Common sense' in flux
‘Common sense’ … the traditional popular conception of the world – what is unimaginatively called ‘instinct’, it is in fact a primitive and elementary historical acquisition. (Gramsci, ‘Selection from Prison Notebooks’ p. 199, 1971) Common sense appears when we tend to experience the particular ‘realities’ of our cultural world as fixed and unalterable. This Bank Holiday weekend, as I watched my neighbours break all the social distancing rules, I’ve been thinking about common sense and how it’s shaped.