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The location of transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives (2005) 跨文化记忆在维克拉姆·赛斯回忆录《两个生命》（2005）中的定位

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1647035

N. Butt

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Remembrance of Marshal Stepa Stepanović in Čačak between (trans-)national memory and local politics 在(跨)国家记忆与地方政治之间的Čačak对斯捷帕·斯捷潘诺维奇元帅的纪念

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1632098

Nikola Baković

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“Looking back” at personal memories on Facebook: Co-constituitive agencies in contemporary remembrance practices “回顾”脸书上的个人记忆：当代纪念活动中的共同组成机构

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1644130

Ana Lúcia Migowski, Willian Fernandes Araújo

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The Europeanization of national museums: Europoeic media and situated knowledges 国家博物馆的欧洲化:欧洲诗歌媒介与情境知识

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1686808

Sarah Czerney

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Walking on streets-in-the-sky: structures for democratic cities 行走在天空中的街道:民主城市的结构

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1596520

João Cunha Borges, Teresa Marat-Mendes

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Heterodox mediations. Notes on Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group 非正统的中介。Walid Raad的The Atlas Group注释

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1633192

S. Baumann

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The politics of observation: documentary film and radical psychiatry 观察的政治:纪录片与激进精神病学

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1568791

Des O’Rawe

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Sympathy for the abject: (re)assessing assemblages of waste with an embedded artist-in-residence 同情穷人：（重新）与一位常驻艺术家一起评估废物组合

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1682224

M. Lithgow, Karen Wall

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Tracing the outlier: digital objects and algorithmic sorting in Rossella Biscotti’s Other 追踪离群者:Rossella Biscotti的《他者》中的数字对象和算法排序

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1605801

Maja Bak Herrie

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Biennial art and its rituals: value, political economy and artfulness 双年展艺术及其仪式:价值、政治经济和艺术性

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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1627847

Panos Kompatsiaris

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