Hall: Hegemony & the Emergent

Hegemony is a tricky concept and provokes muddled thinking. No victories are permanent or final. Hegemony has constantly to be worked on, maintained, renewed, revised. Excluded social forces, whose consent has not been won, whose interests have not been taken into account, form the basis of counter-movements, resistance, alternative strategies and visions … and the struggle over a hegemonic system starts anew. They constitute what Raymond Williams called "the emergent" – and the reason why history is never closed but maintains an open horizon towards the future.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/12/march-of-the-neoliberals




A political perspective on emergence by Stuart Hall, could be related to Foucaults Exclusion and Dominant/Marginalised Discourse. Closure/Openness is mentioned, >research  Raymond Williams use of term...