Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2142804
T. Lewis, I. Holcombe-James, Andrew Glover
{"title":"More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times","authors":"T. Lewis, I. Holcombe-James, Andrew Glover","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2142804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2142804","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on an ethnographic study of employees working from home in 13 Australian households in Sydney, New South Wales and Melbourne, Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Conducting interviews and household walk throughs via video conferencing software, supplemented by diaries and pictures from householders, we were initially interested in how people managed working from home via digital technology. As the project evolved however, we were struck by the reconfigured role of home life more broadly. During this time, many people found themselves not only restricted to their homes but having to experiment with new modes of living as households became hubs for economic, social, and infrastructural flows and the circulation of goods and services. The households in our study engaged in an array of practices related to self-managing employment from home. What we might think of as the ‘work of working from home’ practices included everything from managing workspaces, utilities and energy use, to the emotional atmosphere of the home. This reconfiguration of the home as a central hub of social, cultural, and economic life can be productively understood via two complementary approaches: what feminist planners Gilroy and Booth ([1999]. Building an infrastructure for everyday lives. European planning studies, 7 (3), 307–324) have termed ‘the infrastructure of everyday life’, and Gibson and Graham's ([2008] Diverse economies: performative practices for ‘other worlds’. Progress in human geography, 32 (5), 613–632) work on alternative economies. While the practices we studied could be seen as representing a privileged (in terms of class and race) pandemic response, following Gibson-Graham we frame our findings in terms of (re)imagining future social realities. We identify 3 categories: new domesticities;the ‘living infrastructures’ of work–home life;and everyday economies. In doing so we highlight the hidden and often feminized elements of civic and domestic life – the ‘foundational economy’ (Barbera, F., Negri, N., and Salento, A., 2018. From individual choice to collective voice. Foundational economy, local commons and citizenship. Rassegna Italiana di sociologia, 2, 371–398.) of care and service provision and beyond – to emphasize just how central this foundational economy has become to our post-vaccination futures. [ FROM AUTHOR]","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42763225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2142805
C. Pedwell
{"title":"Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition","authors":"C. Pedwell","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2142805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2142805","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45409315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2139400
P. Pezzullo
{"title":"Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture","authors":"P. Pezzullo","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2139400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2139400","url":null,"abstract":"Many of us have drawn on the now classic circuit of culture to radically contextualize media technology as part of larger systems of regulation, production, consumption, representation, and identity. Although I find it generative, it long has bothered me that ecology and labour were not initially part of that framework. Discard Studies offers a compelling intervention for how we might rethink the circuit of culture by considering: what if – instead of centring a desirable capitalist commodity in our research epistemologies of media technologies – we entered through the underbelly of racialized, gendered, and ableist capitalism through undesirable materials, often located in the hidden abode away from elites, such as toxic pollution and commercial content management? Discard Studies is a collaboration between two geographers at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Max Liboiron’s Pollution as Colonialism established them as a leading critic of plastic waste and decoloniality, and Josh Lepawsky’s Reassembling Rubbish established him as a leading critic of the global trade and trafficking of e-waste. Together, they wrote Discard Studies to identify key commitments for studying what and who is discarded today, offering a ‘broad and systematic approach to how some materials, practices, regions and people are valued and devalued’ (p. 3). The Introduction opens by reflecting on how BPA (bisphenol A, a toxic synthetic chemical) circulates through cash register receipts. Troubling the traditional linear waste management regime of production-consumption-disposal, the authors map a more complex system consisting of feedback loops and exits, which involve economic, political, and material flows, interactions, and structures. Liboiron and Lepawsky then apply this framework to consider, for","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42073944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Narrativität der Musik im Film","authors":"A. Lederer","doi":"10.1515/9783839463925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839463925","url":null,"abstract":"Ein Film ohne Musik ist praktisch nicht denkbar. Doch in welchen Erzählsituationen geht ihr Einfluss tatsächlich über die reine Verstärkung anderer Elemente hinaus? Alexander Lederer sucht in zwölf Hollywoodfilmen nach Spuren von eigenständigen narrativen Potenzialen der Musik im Film. Er entwickelt ein filmnarratologisches Modell, das die audiovisuelle Erzählung als performatives Ereignis begreift, in dem Publikum und Film als intentional »denkende« Akteur*innen aufeinandertreffen. Durch die Hinzunahme empirischen Werkzeugs der Performance Studies rückt er das subjektive Erleben ins Zentrum und zeichnet ein vielschichtiges Bild der komplexen Leistungsfähigkeit von Musik im Film.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48210402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896
Aretha Phiri, M. Wright
{"title":"Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright","authors":"Aretha Phiri, M. Wright","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42177423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898
Aretha Phiri
{"title":"Reframing the Black Atlantic","authors":"Aretha Phiri","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898","url":null,"abstract":"upon","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48304629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902
Laura Chrisman
{"title":"Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms","authors":"Laura Chrisman","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902","url":null,"abstract":"An international set of women scholars, exploring twenty- fi rst century culture by transnational, African women and gender non-binary people: what a rousing demonstration of women ’ s contemporary prominence as intellectual and creative agents of global Black experience. Initially to researchers in cultural studies, such major transnational writers as Chimamanda Adichie, Leila Aboulela, Zoë Wicomb, and Aminatta Forna may have appeared to be outliers within the literary African and postcolonial establishment. It was possible to construe their blending of diasporic and continental perspectives as the result of their own atypical personal circumstances. Hindsight allows us to see them, instead, as the crest of a wave, or – to move away from oceanic diction – early representatives of a demographic phenomenon that origi-nated with capitalist globalization. This phenomenon confounds Gilroy ’ s binaristic understanding: ‘ roots ’ and ‘ routes ’ are no longer easily distinguish-able for a population which claims multiple continental homes, cultures, and identities simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47427977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}