Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race – serie
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12 produkter
Barbarism Revisited
New Perspectives on an Old Concept
Häftad, 2015
1958 kr
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The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be …
Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present
Space, Mobility, Aesthetics
Av Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1644 kr
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This volume sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South …
Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild
Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics
Häftad, 2017
1601 kr
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Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency. Through questionable historical comparisons, politicians and journalists evoke barbaric or …
Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines
Häftad, 2018
1672 kr
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Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines offers a compelling reflection on what the notion of legibility entails in a machinic world in which any form of cultural expression – from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws, computer programs and algorithms – …
How to Do Things with Affects
Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices
Av Ernst Alphen
Häftad, 2019
1672 kr
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How to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social …
Toppling Things as Memorial Contestation
Spectacle and Affect of Monument Removal
Inbunden, 2025
2035 kr
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Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, monuments became a focal point: protestors toppled or spray-painted them, even danced on them. These politically, visually, and emotionally potent events may have looked instantaneous, yet frequently sprang from years of activism, as well as protracted …
Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World
Inbunden, 2025
2136 kr
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This volume explores what aspects of contemporary rural life as deeply globalized – and thus implicated in the ongoing, destructive unfolding of colonialism and capitalism – are highlighted and obscured in social, political, economic, and cultural imaginations. It asks how this shapes the ways in …
Convergences and Interferences
Newness in Intercultural Practices / Écritures d’une nouvelle ère/aire
Häftad, 2001
1580 kr
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How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time?This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical …
Constellations of the Transnational
Modernity, Culture, Critique
Av Sudeep Dasgupta, Esther Peeren
Häftad, 2007
1073 kr
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In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of …
Essays in Migratory Aesthetics
Cultural Practices Between Migration and Art-making
Av Sam Durrant, Catherine M. Lord
Häftad, 2007
1292 kr
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This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities—ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks—register the impact of migration, from the …
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
Cultures of Replication
Häftad, 2012
1371 kr
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Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made …
Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism
Häftad, 2014
1073 kr
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Despite the fact that transnational movement and intercultural encounter are the signs of our present time, questions of belonging and legitimation of citizenship in most West-European countries still largely depend on monolingual norms and the problematic conflation of the idea of a national …
