FROM THE LAST DANCER

This memorial piece takes as given the points of intersection between the author's own thought and the project of Stuart Hall. She is displacing his deep involvement with the British context—the CND, Hungary, working class to mass culture, Birmingham cultural studies, the Open University, into a thinking of the world. She is writing as a younger contemporary, involved with Stuart Hall in the first wave presentations of “theory.” The work of Frantz Fanon serves as a bridge in this articulation.