Now we come to another important theoretical formulation, i.e., Stuart Hall's “circuit of culture”:
“Our circuit of culture suggests that, in fact, meanings are produced at several different sites and circulated through several different processes or practices … Meaning is constantly being produced and exchanged in every personal and social interaction in which we take part” (see Hall).
Further, ways of producing and communicating meaning work like languages. The whole circuit of culture – the production of meaning, the communicating of meaning, the regulation of meaning, the creation of identities and contestations, producing meaning and finally consuming meaning – all these work like a language in a system of difference with a certain degree of arbitrariness, i.e., these work in a system of relationality and differentiation. As Hall argues: “any notion of a final meaning is always endlessly put off, deferred. Cultural studies of this interpretative kind, like other qualitative forms of sociological inquiry, are inevitably caught up in this ‘circle of meaning.'”
