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Introduction: The Contemporary Relevance of Vilém Flusser 引言:维尔姆·弗卢瑟的当代意义
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231168552
Anita Jóri, M. Hartmann
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Coloniality and the State: Race, Nation and Dependency 殖民与国家:种族、民族与依附
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1177/02632764221151126
Walter D. Mignolo, Fábio Santino Bussmann
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Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue 场理论与集合理论:走向建设性对话
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231167774
W. Atkinson
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Vilém Flusser’s What If? On Designing Radical Futures 维尔姆·弗卢瑟的《如果?》关于设计激进的未来
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231168582
Anke Finger
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Projective Imagination: Vilém Flussers’s Concept of the Technical Image 投射想象:维尔萨姆·弗卢瑟斯的技术形象概念
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231168576
Daniel Irrgang
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From Galton’s Pride to Du Bois’s Pursuit: The Formats of Data-Driven Inequality 从高尔顿的骄傲到杜波依斯的追求:数据驱动的不平等的形式
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231162251
Colin Koopman
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Class as Collective Representation: Lessons from Wagner and Bayreuth on the Discrete Harms of the Bourgeoisie 作为集体代表的阶级:瓦格纳和拜罗伊特对资产阶级离散危害的启示
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231162024
Philip Smith
{"title":"Class as Collective Representation: Lessons from Wagner and Bayreuth on the Discrete Harms of the Bourgeoisie","authors":"Philip Smith","doi":"10.1177/02632764231162024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231162024","url":null,"abstract":"The cultural turn has yet to fully reconfigure ‘class’ as a set of fictions, tropes, discourses and enduring culture-structures. Existing Durkheimian approaches have stalled at his middle period morphological reductionism. This paper constructs a more radical understanding in the late-Durkheimian idiom. It shows how class operates as a signifier in a language game of purity and pollution, virtue and vice. Taking a lead from studies of the ‘unruly’ working class, the paper opens up the more subtle pollution that attends to the mythical ‘bourgeoisie’ and its associated and imagined ‘bourgeois’ culture. As a sign system this class location is deemed inauthentic, sybaritic, and as strangely deadening to cultural vitality. Although commonly found in contexts of gentrification and commodification that involve class conflict, this critical discourse is also applied within the bourgeois milieu. Such needless auto-critique suggests a relative autonomy from determination by class struggle. The possibilities for this approach are illustrated at length with reference to a paradigm case: the highly bourgeois milieu of the composer Richard Wagner and his Bayreuth Festival.","PeriodicalId":227485,"journal":{"name":"Theory, Culture & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116889958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age 后朋克、工业文化杂志和信息黑暗时代
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/02632764221151133
Christopher Haworth
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Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society 后真相叙事:利奥塔与社会的认知分裂
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/02632764231162027
Christiane Baier
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Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement “禁止达科他输油管道”运动中的艺术、影响和社交媒体
Theory, Culture & Society Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/02632764221146715
Robyn Lee
{"title":"Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement","authors":"Robyn Lee","doi":"10.1177/02632764221146715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221146715","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous-led activism against proposed oil pipelines has relied heavily on social media, as in the #NoDAPL campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This paper explores affective engagement in online activism, including the Standing Rock ‘check-in’ campaign on Facebook. Moving beyond dichotomous understandings of embodied vs digital activism, Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Mirror Shields Project employs digital media in order to support direct action at Standing Rock. Patricia Clough draws a direct link between affect and technoscientific understandings of the body in her concept of biomediated bodies. This helps explain how physical and digital activism are linked: the digital and the physical cannot be understood as independent of each other, since online engagement always has an embodied aspect as well. Luger’s Mirror Shields Project functions as a form of alterlife, in resistance to biopower, recognizing historical and ongoing harms while also creating new possibilities for resistance.","PeriodicalId":227485,"journal":{"name":"Theory, Culture & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132028082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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