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Reframing the ‘Arab Winter’: the importance of sleep and a quiet atmosphere after ‘defeated’ revolutions 重塑“阿拉伯之冬”:革命“失败”后睡眠和安静氛围的重要性

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1857286

Darci Sprengel

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On theory, citational practices and personal accountability in the study of music and affect 论音乐与情感研究中的理论、引用实践和个人责任

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1893486

D. Gill

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‘You have to feel to sing!’: popular music classes and the transmission of ‘feel’ in contemporary India “你必须有感觉才能唱歌!”:流行音乐课程和“感觉”在当代印度的传播

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1861954

Anaar DESAI-STEPHENS

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Compromising beauties: affective movement and gendered (im)mobilities in women's competitive tufo dancing in Northern Mozambique 妥协的美:情感运动和性别(im)移动在莫桑比克北部妇女竞争的舞蹈

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1858127

Ellen E. Hebden

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Normativity versus normalisation: reassembling actor-network theory through Butler and Foucault 规范与正常化:通过巴特勒和福柯重新组装行动者网络理论

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-06-22 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1780623

J. Maze

{"title":"Normativity versus normalisation: reassembling actor-network theory through Butler and Foucault","authors":"J. Maze","doi":"10.1080/14735784.2020.1780623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2020.1780623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Judith Butler is often heralded as carrying on the legacy of Foucault, yet Butlerian normalisation is engrained in a sincere (mis)interpretation of Foucault. Foucault’s work on punitive measures defined a historically-limited domain by which one could map out a clustered network of power relations, or what he called a dispositif. By revisiting their differences and rethinking their relationship accordingly, one can piece together a methodological model that is immensely utilisable for actor-network theory (ANT). While Butler’s performativity allots agency to nonhuman entities – viewing it more as a dispersed field of agency – Foucault’s genealogy contextually places various power relations, particularly pertaining to material and immaterial nonhuman entities. More than just laying out a method for ANT though, highlighting their differences can help us rethink how we visualise the subject, the body, materialism and agency in very innovative ways while also gaining a deeper insight into what separates Foucault and Butler. Alongside this, we can see how their combined contribution helps ANT with (a) its lack of attention given to immaterial entities, (b) its reluctance to deal with identarian politics and (c) the divide between its more performative and its more practical branches.","PeriodicalId":43943,"journal":{"name":"Culture Theory and Critique","volume":"76 1","pages":"389 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78064827","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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Of times before tomorrow: contingency and the life of machines 关于明天之前的时间:偶然性和机器的寿命

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1821969

Richard Iveson

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Ontological violence: Catherine Malabou on plasticity, performativity, and writing the feminine 本体论暴力:凯瑟琳·马拉布谈可塑性、表演性和女性写作

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1761414

Tawny Andersen

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Disturbance and destruction: the aetiology of trauma 干扰与破坏:创伤的病因学

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1762101

Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal

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What should we do with our gut? 我们应该如何处理我们的肠道?

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1749686

Denise Thwaites

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Brain power: cruel optimism and neuro-liberalism in the work of Catherine Malabou 脑力:凯瑟琳·马拉布作品中的残酷乐观主义和神经自由主义

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1749685

Francis Russell

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