“Desculturalizar” the culture - cultural policies’ contemporary challenges

Abstract

This article combines the academic reflection with the proposed policy. Resumes the question about the importance of cultural policies and aims to build a new reply. Maintains that cultural policies cannot focus solely on pure organizing events. But in addition to the promotion of cultural production, the establishment of better mechanisms for their movement and addressing different audiences, the essay in a bet cultural policy that aims the deconstruction of imageries, that is to say, the hegemonic intent to intervene in those common senses which are deeply entrenched social habits. If the contemporary capitalism bases much of his power in symbolic domination, this essay considers that the symbols of the culture in general is also a place to reply.