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The Capitalist Form of Life, and How To Deconstruct It 资本主义的生活方式及其解构

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0012

B. Ronge

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Conviviality, the Internet, and AI. Ivan Illich, Bernard Stiegler, and the Question Concerning Information-technological Self-limitation 欢乐、互联网和人工智能。伊凡·伊里奇、伯纳德·斯蒂格勒与信息技术自我限制问题

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0013

Andreas Beinsteiner

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Failure to Meet up to Expectation: Examining Women’s Activist Groups in the Post-Colonial Period in Nigeria 未能达到预期:检视尼日利亚后殖民时期的妇女活动团体

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0003

Adebukola O. Dagunduro, Adebimpe A. Adenugba

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Photopoetics: Sisyphus Outdone, the Apostrophal Subject and the Elusive Image 摄影诗学：西西弗斯、撇号主体与隐逸意象

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0008

Esther Sánchez-Pardo

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Dystopia, Feminism and Phallogocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake 玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《羚羊与秧鸡》中的反乌托邦、女权主义和生殖器中心主义

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0015

Javier Martín

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Dub in the Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Secular 客厅配音：神圣与世俗的流动美学

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/CULTURE-2019-0017

Michael Mcmillan

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La Divina Pastora, the Dougla Madonna

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0006

Alison Mc Letchie

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Magical Negress: Re-Reading Agent 355 in Brian Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man 神奇的黑人:重新阅读布莱恩·沃恩的《Y:最后的人》中的355号特工

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0014

K. Tembo

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Young Finnish People of Muslim Background: Creating “Spiritual Becomings” and “Coming Communities” in Their Artworks 穆斯林背景的芬兰年轻人:在他们的艺术作品中创造“精神成为”和“即将到来的社区”

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0013

Helena Oikarinen-Jabai

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Villains, Ghosts, and Roses, or, How to Speak with the Dead 恶棍、鬼魂和玫瑰，或者，如何与死者交谈

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0002

S. Huber

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