{"title":"Art Beyond the Anthropocene: A Philosophical Analysis of Selected Examples of Post-Anthropocentric Art in the Context of Ecological Change","authors":"Dominika Czakon, N. Michna","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0245","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article, the authors discuss selected examples of post-anthropocentric art, which—as they show—is associated with human sensitivity, care, empathy, and the capacity for compassion. Czakon and Michna present artistic creations that serve as examples of art that respond efficiently and quickly to the pressing problems of the contemporary world. This post-anthropocentric art, as they call it, critically reacts to major ecological and social problems of today. For this purpose, in the first and second part of the essay, they briefly characterize the basic differences between traditional, anthropocentric art and contemporary post-anthropocentric art, which has been broadly investigated in, among others, the framework of feminist philosophy and women’s studies. Czakon and Michna focus on such fundamental aesthetics concepts as fine arts and the canon thereof, aesthetic pleasure, and the artist of genius, as well as the categories of beauty and the sublime and the ideal of contemplative viewing of art. Then they present and describe selected examples of artworks that reveal their critical potential by contributing to ecological changes in the contemporary world.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"245 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45774545","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}
{"title":"Culture Industry and Orientalism in the Movie 300","authors":"Bahar Tahsily","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0230","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article, Tahsily analyzes an influential and economically very successful 2007 “blockbuster” Hollywood production: the movie 300. In order to do so, two main points of reference will be used: the theory concerning culture industry, as developed in particular by Adorno, and the concept of Orientalism, as theorized by Said. The major purpose of this work is to show how negative stereotypes concerning middle easterners are commonly used by Western media, with the primary aim of creating a conflictual relation between them. While it is clear that Said’s work cannot be fully absorbed into the purposes of critical theory, the use of Orientalism proves to be an extremely fruitful integration, and update, of the key ideas concerning culture industry. After showing the practical use of Orientalism in the movie 300, Tahsily comes to the conclusion that a different use of media is not only opportune but necessary for favoring a perspective of integration, rather than conflict, between different cultural models.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"230 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46048042","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}
{"title":"The Philosophical Attitude of Eugene Hütz, Singer of Gogol Bordello","authors":"Valentina Antoniol","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"353 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47364052","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}
{"title":"Can the (Non-)Subaltern (Understand) Rap?: Rap as Vernacular Critical Theory","authors":"M. Ryynänen","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0213","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:It is relatively easy to produce a decent rap piece. Rap also has a long history as political culture. Whether people want feminist development or action against brutal capitalism—rap is there. Critical theory and political philosophy have always been a part of rap. In the 1990s MC Solaar quoted Umberto Eco and Jacques Derrida. Today, Princess Nokia rhymes on bell hooks. No other genre of popular music can come up with as strong a history on philosophy and critical theory. We have not, though, yet discussed the way rap lyrics themselves could be thought of as vernacular critical theory or philosophy. Besides attempting to do this, Ryynänen asks why philosophers and critical theorists do not recognize vernacular versions of their practice, presenting some of the ways rap works for social change.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"213 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48164321","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}
{"title":"Letter from the Editors: Contemporary Popular Culture and Social Criticism","authors":"Valentina Antoniol, S. Gandesha, Stefano Marino","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"205 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41997546","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}
{"title":"Thirty Years of Pearl Jam (and Grunge Subculture), 1991–2021","authors":"Stefano Marino","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0365","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this review article, I focus my attention on the so-called grunge subculture, originally derived from the musical style of the Seattle scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and in particular on the rock band Pearl Jam, sometimes emphatically defined as the “grunge survivors” and as the only major Seattle band to survive the ’90s intact. Pearl Jam—inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, and committed in 2021 to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Ten, their legendary debut album, and also the twenty-fifth anniversary of No Code, their fourth, most experimental, and perhaps most “philosophical” work so far—have undoubtedly established themselves as one of the best rock bands of all times. Starting from a general analysis of the music of Pearl Jam, in my review article I subsequently take into examination some aspects of the band's artistic work that allow to connect in an original way popular music and social criticism, including some questions concerning political commitment, the critical relation with the culture industry, and also feminism.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"365 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898938","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}
{"title":"Fashioning Teresa Teng: Chinese Chronologies from Nostalgia to Vintage","authors":"Simona Segre-Reinach","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0295","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article, Segre-Reinach outlines the profile of the celebrated pop singer Teresa Teng (1953–1995), also known as Teresa Deng and Teng Li-Chun (traditional Chinese: 鄧麗君; simplified Chinese: 邓丽; pinyin: Dèng Lìjūn). Twenty-six years after her death, Teresa Teng, Segre-Reinach argues, has a role not only for her music but as a fashion icon of global reach. Her fame has in fact continued after her death, and she has recently acquired a new global interest. Teresa Teng is a Chinese fashion icon influencing global fashion, much beyond her life.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"295 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45031222","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}
{"title":"Feminism and Italian Photography: Notes on the Inheritance of New Generations from the 1970s","authors":"Cristina Casero, F. Muzzarelli","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0262","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Following the current perspectives offered by international gender and feminist studies, this article aims to analyze the history of Italian photography, focusing on the period from the 1970s up to today, investigating the sources from a different viewpoint, and starting from new questions which identify the contribution of events and authors to feminist photography in Italy. The article also aims to respond to the many still open questions regarding the space of visibility of women in Italian photography. And in particular: How does the new generation of Italian women photographers relate to the Italian feminist heritage? Is it possible to trace a shared poetics in their work that characterizes their belonging to a common theoretical and practical dimension that can be defined as feminist? Or do they reject cultural labels and heritages from which they feel alienated?","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"262 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47563268","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}
{"title":"The Beauty of Inclusivity: “Visual Activism” from Social Media to Fashion Magazines","authors":"Chiara Pompa","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0313","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article investigates the role of fashion and beauty photography in contemporary social discourses of inclusion and diversity, contributing to a critique of traditional politics of representation of the body and, therefore, to sociocultural change. Starting from analyzing this complex phenomenon that has generated a ground for comparison between ethic and aesthetic practices, snapshot culture, and advertising, Pompa examines how the rise of social media put into crisis the now leading aesthetic standards. In fact, these media have pointed out the need to increase the representation on fashion magazines of minorities, who have until now been excluded in the mainstream media. In this perspective, Vogue Italia and related narratives of unconventional beauty are explored.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"313 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47661048","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}
{"title":"Alternative Treasures: The Fall of the House of Usher and The Terror within Roger Corman's Poe Cycle","authors":"James Thompson","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.1.0168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.1.0168","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:During the 1960s Roger Corman produced a series of adaptations based on the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, known commonly as his Poe cycle. They were B-films but they were also prestige pictures, flagship films for production company American International Pictures. This article argues that Corman embarked upon a renewal of Poe's literary influence through creative mistranslation and examines two of Corman's films. The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) signifies the \"best\" and \"worst\" of this series. The first of the cycle, it set a tone that was emulated by all the films to follow. The Terror (1963), a so-called honorary member of the cycle, has not had the deserved theoretical or critical attention, especially in studies of adaptation in the cinema and questions of translation, transmutation, and transfiguration. The Terror, in fact, might represent one of Corman's most enduring contributions to filmic art.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"168 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45938171","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}