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“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976 lectures (“Society Must Be Defended”), this work-hypothesis theorises “basic warfare” [la guerre fondamentale] as the teleological horizon of socio-political relations. Following Boulainvilliers, Foucault champions this polemological approach, conceived as a purely descriptive discourse on “real” politics and war, against the philosophico-juridical conceptuality attached to liberal society (Hobbes’s Leviathan being here the prime example).
However, in doing so, Foucault did not interrogate the conceptual validity of notions such as power and war, therefore interlinking them without questioning their ontological status. This problematic conflation was partly rectified in 1982, as Foucault proposed a more dynamic definition of power relations: “actions over potential actions”.
I argue, somewhat polemically, that Foucault’s hermeneutics of power still involves a teleological violence, dependent on a polemological representation of human relations as essentially instrumental: this resembles what Derrida names, in “Heidegger’s Ear”, an “anthropolemology”. However, I show that all conceptualisation of power implies its self-deconstruction. This self-deconstructive (or autoimmune) structure supposes an archi-originary unpower prior to power: power presupposes an excess within power, an excessive force, another violence making it both possible and impossible. There is something within power located “beyond the power principle” (Derrida). This (self-)excess signifies a limitless resistantiality co-extensive with power-relationality. It also allows the reversal of pólemos into its opposite, as unpower opens politics and warfare to the messianic call of a pre-political, pre-ontological disruption: the archi-originary force of différance. This force, unconditional, challenges Foucault’s conceptualisations of power, suggesting an originary performativity located before or beyond hermeneutics of power-knowledge, disrupting theoreticity as well as empiricity by pointing to their ontological complicity.
The bulk of this essay is dedicated to sketching the theoretical implications of this deconstructive reading of Foucault with respect to the methodology and conceptuality of political science and social theory.

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- Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Cultural examinations focusing on the spheres
of the Fine Arts and popular media forms –
within sociology, gender studies and cultural
studies – have primarily focused on how gender
roles affect the ability to fully participate in all
aspects of culture, or how media representations
have promoted essentialist and heteronormative
narratives and visual imagery. Much of the scholarship
thus far has looked at culture and gender
from a traditional binary perspective (high/low,
male/female, production/reception). However,
the recent emergence of the interdisciplinary
field of queer studies (within the last decade)
and the study of post-internet participatory media
culture(s) offer new conceptual and empirical
terrain to explore gender and sexuality. Radical
feminist and queer media forms challenge us to
reconsider the creation, distribution and reception
of culture, and present opportunities to resist, and
in some cases pervert, dominant narratives, policies
and ways of seeing.

- by Marin Kosut
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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Feminist Sociology, Gender Studies

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The unprecedented economic growth and immigration that Ireland experienced between 1995 and 2007 did not only challenge national but also ethnic, social, and gender identities. The contributions to this volume explore how films tackle these challenges and help to make sense of Ireland’s altered position in a globalised world. Among the films discussed are some of the most critically acclaimed Irish films of recent years, including Once (2006), Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), and The Secret of Kells (2009), as well as the work of Oscar-winning director and writer Neil Jordan. The volume is completed by an extensive interview with award-winning director Lenny Abrahamson, and his collaborator, screenwriter and actor Mark O’Halloran.

- by Seán Crosson
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- Cultural Studies, Irish Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies

. The problems of irreducibility, untranslatability, non-generalized existence of language are there as there persists always something irreducible in the interactions between the self and the other. Considering the Bengali society, perspectivally deliberated through the intellectual lenses of the bourgeois, the self-culture predicates the normative paradigm that structures what should and what should not constitute the essential with regard to socio-political identity. The conflictual cultural implication opposes whatever is non-standard and heterogeneous. Even within the group, the notion of the ‘other-self’ segregates the cultural variants that are marginalized as non-standard and imperfect.

- by Debmalya Biswas
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- Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, Southeast Asian Studies

"In the following article, some films produced with the support of Bord Scannán na hÉireann (The Irish Film Board) since its reconstitution in 1993 are examined in light of the work of global anthropologist Arjun Appadurai and his theory of global cultural flows. The article suggests that cinema, primarily of Hollywood origin, has had a notable influence on the development of Irish society and Irish film. Contemporary Irish film itself also reflects the failure of Irish history to excite the imagination of Ireland's youth as effectively as the seductive depictions of America's past as mediated through the Western and gangster films. Indeed, films made in Ireland today reflect the influence of both these genres. However, as the key to the Hollywood continuity style of film-making is its own self-effacement, this has sometimes been reflected in the effacement of people, politics and place in contemporary Irish film as film-makers endeavor to attract a global audience for their work. Films considered include The Boy From Mercury (Martin Duffy, 1996), Nora (Pat Murphy, 1999), Circle of Friends (Pat O'Connor, 1993), Dancing at Lughnasa (Pat O'Connor, 1998), Saltwater (Conor McPherson, 1999), Ailsa (Paddy Breathnach, 1993), I Went Down (Paddy Breathnach, 1997), The Disappearance of Finbar (Sue Clayton, 1994/95), When Brendan Met Trudy (Kieron Walsh, 2000), High Boot Benny (Joe Comerford, 1993), Broken Harvest (Maurice O’Callaghan, 1993), The Boxer (Jim Sheridan, 1998), Some Mother’s Son (Terry George, 1996), Nothing Personal (Thaddeus
O’Sullivan, 1994/95), and Sweety Barrett (Stephen Bradley, 1998)."

- by Seán Crosson
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- Cultural Studies, Irish Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Globalization

Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a wide variety of competitive, educational, or recreational contexts, and as spectators, who are physically present or following events through the mass media. This book presents original research into modern sport funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Its aim is to examine the distinctive contribution made by this complex phenomenon to the construction of European identities. Attention is focused on sport's social significance, as a set of mass-mediated practices and spectacles giving rise to a network of images, symbols, and discourses. The book seeks to explore, and ultimately to explain, the processes of representation and mediation involved in the sporting construction, and subsequent renegotiation, of local, national, and, increasingly, global identities. It offers a survey of key developments in sporting Europe - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and from the Atlantic to the Urals - presenting findings by acknowledged international experts and emerging scholars at the level of individuals, communities, regions, nation-states, and Europe as a whole, in both its geographical and political incarnations. Its focus on representation offers a broadly conceived, and consciously inclusive, approach to issues of 'Europeanness' in modern and contemporary sport.

- by Seán Crosson
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- European History, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Sport, European Studies

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Creative Inquiry frames learning and education as a larger manifestation
of the creative impulse rather than as the fundamentally instrumental acquisition, retention, and reproduction of information, or Reproductive Learning.
Montuori, A. (2011). Creative inquiry. In N. M. Seel (Ed.), The encyclopedia of the sciences of learning. Heidelberg: Springer.

- by Alfonso Montuori
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- Creative Writing, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Psychology

From Jesus to the Internet examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying particular attention to how various forms of media have influenced and developed the Christian tradition over the centuries. It is the first systematic survey of this topic and the author provides those studying or interested in the intersection of religion and media with a lively and engaging chronological narrative. With insights into some of Christianity s most hotly debated contemporary issues, this book provides a much-needed historical basis for this interdisciplinary field.

- by Peter Horsfield
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- Religion, Christianity, History, Cultural Studies

This paper examines the screen in its everyday and even banal uses, rather than its monumental uses. Focusing especially on the deployment of the camera phone as a means of producing a sense of being within urban space, the paper considers the practices of camera phone image-making and sharing in Hong Kong, by presenting data from research carried out between 2007 and 2010. We focus not only on the screen of the camera phone itself, but also on the computer screen where the images are first made available to us, within blogs—the blogspace itself forming a specific visual field that determines how the users themselves view their images, as evidenced in the comments they make about them.
We provide a framework for considering the significance of camera phone pictures and user-created content generally. We describe the rise of camera phone picture-taking and identify patterns in usage and in the aesthetic attitudes of users, based on our research. Our research involves a multi-modal approach, that includes both quantitative and qualitative methods—ethnographic research, structured and unstructured interviews, photo elicitation, a questionnaire, and interpretive visual data analysis.
We pay close attention to the affective/emotional comments users make about their picture-taking practices and their use of camera phones, based on our ethnographic research. We argue that this material deserves to be taken much more seriously because of the intricacies of the everyday that are manifest only in such practices. In emphasizing the specific aesthetic choices of users and the patterns that emerge in everyday use, we argue that the cultural meaning of camera phone images must foreground the role that aesthetics and emotion play in everyday life. Through such research, we observe the fine detail of everyday innovation in expressive forms that are overlooked in technology studies that focus on devices and rational choices. Additionally, we note the increasingly widespread new phenomenon of a highly distributive aesthetics that challenges the traditional privilege that art forms have been granted, demonstrating that user-created content is shifting some major social assumptions and structures.

- by Helen Grace
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- Cultural Studies (Communication)

The Hospice St. Catherine built in 1391-92 and re-build in 1516 is "first class" monument of the 1st and 2nd Hospitaller Period in the Medieval Town of Rhodes Greece, with particular historic and artistic importance:
The unique position of the Hospice in a key place of the Lower Town and its proximity to the Commercial Port and its High Street Architectural Design, dictated by its use as a guest house for the prominent guests of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers in Rhodes, as it is laid by its foundation charter in 1392.
The two-storey Hospice is distinguished by the developed masonry technique of the late 15thearly 16th century, the deliberate use of stone of variable resistance for different parts of the structure and perfect stereotomy in the openings. The Renaissance Arcade of the south face, aesthetically the most important part of the building, demonstrates the style of early Renaissance being is a proof of western architects working in Rhodes. The north face is particularly interesting because it is a survival of the original building phase and, at the same time, a commercial façade. The faithful reconstruction of the Hospitaller shops was assisted by traces left on the doorsteps and doorposts of the openings of all five shops. Interior decorations and functionalities of the Hospitaller period like fireplaces and doorways, painted ceilings and pebble mosaics, are brought to light during restoration.
The restoration of the Hospice is a pioneering act social act that solved different the social problems besetting the historic center and a master act in regards to technical solutions, all of which follow the Charter of Venice, the Declaration of Amsterdam and the Convention of Granada.

- by Dorothea Papathanasiou
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- Tourism Studies, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Cultural Tourism

Abstract
This is the world of social media. This is connected outside the borders of international territories
socially. It is social media that has made possible world to be a global village. This is the platform
where we can know about happenings all around the world without spending any money or
even without going out of our bedrooms. We can understand the language, way of life, professional
and educational activities, interests and eating habits, sports and entertainment of other countries.
We can say that social media is best tool to understand the culture of other countries living
within your own country. It is a way to know and understand the untold facts of some countries.
Social media can also be used to promote national culture across the world. Especially the countries
which have a negative image due to some national and international issues can change the misconceptions
about their countries. They can promote their culture using different social networks. Untold
bright aspects of their countries can be highlighted through Facebook, twitter, VK, You tube,
Google etc. This article would enlighten the importance of social media to promote some country’s
culture internationally. It would include in depth international students’ interviews from different
universities of Russia. This research would elaborate how international students use different social
networks. This article will attempt to investigate the impact of social networks by promoting the
cultural colors of a country. Based on the findings of the analysis, directions for the new research
would also be discussed in this article.
Key words; National Culture, Social Media, Social Networks, National Culture Promotion

This article explores the integration of the mobile phone into the religious experience of Christians in Nigeria. Based on the results of an online survey and the author’s observation, it argues that the mobile phone has become an actant in the mediatization of religion, creating dependency among some users and transforming religious praxis in palpable ways. Unsurprisingly, perspectives vary on whether and how the phone should be used during worship. Attitudes coalesce around three viewpoints, leading to the emergence of user groups labelled critics, advocates, and dualists. The accounts of study participants give access into the ways some people seek to (re)configure their engagement with religion by inserting the mobile phone as a multifunctional techno-spiritual gadget.

- by Allwell Nwankwo
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- Religion, Christianity, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
- by Esteban Mizrahi
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- Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies

En este artículo se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre los conceptos cultura e identidad que durante mucho tiempo suscitaron fuertes debates en el campo de los estudios sobre la cultura y los estudios culturales. Estos términos han sido usados teórica y políticamente como sinónimos intercambiables, lo que ha desembocado en la necesidad de revisar las diferentes perspectivas teóricas usadas hasta ahora. Desde el esencialismo más radical, hasta las posturas enteramente subjetivistas, se desarrolló una discusión de negación mutua que vino a estancar los debates y sus enfoques resultaron, en cierta forma, insuficientes para abordar dichos conceptos. Con la finalidad de comprender la complejidad del mundo contemporáneo, se plantean los marcos interpretativos de los conceptos en articulación con nociones como poder, desigualdad, heterogeneidad, historicidad y conflicto, las cuales con su llegada, vendrían a plantear nuevas discusiones que hasta entonces habían quedado desplazadas. De esta forma, la propuesta de este trabajo es ordenar el complejo mapa de perspectivas conceptuales a través de los aportes de diferentes autores. En este marco, se destaca, el esquema teórico formulado por Alejandro Grimson en Los límites de la Cultura, el cual plantea nuevas conceptualizaciones para dar cuenta de los entramados sociales complejos del mundo contemporáneo.

- by Virginia Martinez and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Anthropology, Epistemology

An updated and expanded version of the cultural multi-level model from Erez and Gati (2004) is reviewed in this paper. It begins with a summary of prior culture and culture change studies organised into respective culture level manifestations, establishing a foundation to construct the cultural level structure at national, organisation, group and individual level manifestations. This structure can be illustrated as a "Russian Nesting Doll" model in which micro culture are nested within macro culture manifestation in the order of individual, group, organisation and national; with the former lodging within the latter. Following the structural framework, this review further strengthens claims regarding the dynamic interplay between cultural levels in which top-down and bottom-up processes are examined. Subsequently, communication is identified as the main influence in culture manifestations. Major and notable cultural communication studies are summarised to explain culture's effect on communication. The dynamics between culture and communication are clarifed with further studies that support communication's effect on culture. Consequently, downward communication is established as the main element for downward processes-higher levels of culture manifestation transmitting its effect onto lower structural units via communication.

Research concerning computer hackers generally focuses on how to stop them; far less attention is given to the texts they create. Phrack, an online hacker journal that has run almost continuously since 1985, is an important touchstone in hacker literature, widely read by both hackers and telephone and network security professionals. But beyond its instantiation as a compendium of illicit technical knowledge, Phrack was, above all, a rhetorical publication. The files in each issue of Phrack created a shared rhetorical vision concerning the place of the hacker underground within society and in relation to law enforcement officials, as well as what it means to be a hacker. This essay examines two important events in the evolution of the hacker movement through the lens of Phrack—Operation Sundevil and the arrest of Kevin Mitnick. How these events were framed in Phrack both shaped and reflected emerging shifts in hacker collective identity.

Communication is a trouble we are stuck with," John Durham Peters writes in his 1999 book Speaking to the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (p. 263). This tone of what we might call cheerful fatalism is just one interesting aspect of this idiosyncratic text. On the first college term paper I ever prepared, the professor wrote a margin note that has stayed with me:

- by Christopher Lucas
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- Communication, Media History, Cultural Studies (Communication)

The article proposes the consideration of the concepts of mentality and national character from the perspective of cognitive semiotics, which are semiotic regulators of the process of communication between representatives of different linguistic cultures, in particular, national communicative behavior. Special attention is paid to highlighting the symbolic status of traditions, etiquette and ritual norms, stereotypes, ready-made thoughts, schemes for explaining phenomena and events, causal attribution mechanisms in the communicative consciousness of a national linguistic personality, which form the cognitive-semiotic component of the mentality and national character of representatives certain linguistic culture. The theme of the thesis is that national communicative behavior reflects centuries-old traditions of a particular ethnos, manifested in linguistic and cultural competence, as well as etiquette and ritual norms caused by knowledge and stereotypical representations of the cognitive base of interactants. The observance of traditions and etiquette and ritual norms in national communicative behavior causes the formation of national values of communication participants as representatives of a certain linguaculture, reflecting the cognitive-semiotic specificity of the mentality and national character of the individual people as main regulators of the communication process. As a result of the proposed cognitive-semiotic approach to the analysis of national communicative behavior, the opinion is expressed that in typical invariant monocultural and intercultural situations of communication, each interactant resorts to the formed and fixed in the own consciousness system of semiotypes for organizing the perception and decoding of information, providing it with some assessment and interpretation.

- by Igor Korolyov and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Cognitive Semiotics, Cognitive Linguistics, Speech Communication

In 1966, the US Senator J. William Fulbright noted that media industries often behave as "adjuncts of government." Fulbright was not the ﬁrst Congress member to charge this: in 1941, "isolationist" Senator Gerald P. Nye called the Hollywood ﬁlm studios "gigantic engines of propaganda." There have been several historical examples that support Fulbright’s and Nye’s accusations, perhaps none so blatantly as 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation with its prime mover, Darryl F. Zanuck. It is clear that the media industries, the defense industries (some of which are themselves media owners) and the government, being closely intertwined, share economic and ideological interests – especially when it comes to the prospect of war. However, the speciﬁc situation I discuss involved much more than intertwining ideological and economic interests – it also involved a complex web of "horse-trading,: social-climbing, personal foibles and obsessions.

- by Francisco Salvador Ventura
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- Hinduism, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning the dual problematics of liberalism and biopolitics, we argue for theorizing economic rhetoric as a governmental problem of order, or taxis, which arranges value among divergent subjects beyond the dichotomies of material/cultural and global/local. This approach toward rhetoric, we further contend, takes as its strategic form what Foucault and Agamben have called a dispositif. We demonstrate this premise through a case study of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s notion of freakonomics, suggesting that it can be understood as a rhetorical dispositif working within the broader political rationality of neoliberal governmentality. We end by gesturing toward a rhetoric of the common as an alternative to the dispositif of freakonomics.

La moda è un oggetto di studio che può essere analizzato da prospettive molto diverse. Di moda si sono occupate l’economia, l’antropologia e la psicologia, ma anche la storia, la storia dell’arte e la sociologia. La varietà di approcci riflette la natura polimorfa di un fenomeno che non è solamente estetico, ma al contrario presenta complessi significati sociali, culturali e psicologici. La moda chiama in causa tanto le scelte individuali e quotidiane dell’abito da indossare quanto i meccanismi sociali della sua diffusione; tanto le dinamiche del consumo quanto quelle della produzione.
Obiettivo di questo saggio è mostrare come la moda possa essere letta come un importante fenomeno culturale con funzioni sociali rilevanti.

- by Marco Pedroni
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- Fashion Theory, Punk Culture, Cultural Studies (Communication), Georg Simmel
- by Nirmala Mani Adhikary
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- Critical Theory, Hinduism, Asian Studies, Philosophy

This article argues that, propaedeutic to the construction of an Objectivist aesthetics, scholars must refute the irrational/immoral philosophical premises that have been destroying the philosophy of art. Due to the troubling combination of its contemporaneity, extremism, and considerable influence, poststructuralism, which, since the 1960s, has served as the default philosophical foundation for philosophers of art, is the target of this article.

- by Kyle Barrowman
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- Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Metaphysics
- by Chadwick Roberts
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- Cultural Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies, Visual Culture

El objetivo de este trabajo (aparecido en el anuario CONEICC 2012) es recuperar dentro de la ensayística del escritor y periodista Carlos Monsiváis algunas de las principales ideas sobre la televisión como fenómeno cultural. Para ello se contextualiza la relación entre modernidad, sociedad de masas y televisión dentro de la historia cultural mexicana del siglo xx. En cuanto la metodología, hemos seguido el sistema de un trabajo documental al identificar en primer lugar los textos centrales de su biblio-hemerografía sobre la televisión para reconocer los juicios culturales en torno a ésta como concepto y categoría. Rescatamos las principales lexías o unidades de sentido en sus trabajos que rearticulamos en este ensayo académico como una manera de obtener una reflexividad distinta de lo dicho por Monsiváis sobre la televisión. Mediante ello, reconstruimos parte del fenómeno socio-histórico de la televisión en la segunda mitad del siglo xx en México. Y, finalmente, llegamos a la conclusión de cómo en sus diversas intuiciones y ensayos se cifran elementos para pensar los rasgos y características de la modernidad cultural en México como un conjunto de procesos desiguales, con distinto nivel de efecto, consistencia y visibilidad

- by Tanius Karam
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- Cultural Studies, Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, Science Communication

Kültür ve İletişim'in 27. sayısı

- by Kültür ve İletişim Dergisi
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- Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Communication, Media Studies

This paper examines the systematic efforts to dismantle or destroy the symbolic dimension of the Baathist regime in Iraq since 2003. It argues that while the Baath were undeniably cruel and oppressive, they did undertake one of the twentieth century’s most robust attempts to utilise the political power of historical memory to create a unified Iraqi national identity. However, while many have examined the militaristic or bureaucratic dimensions of de-Baathification, no such attempts have been made to examine the destruction of the symbols and monuments of the Baathist state and the consequences it has had for Iraqi national identity. This paper addresses this paucity and concludes that with the symbolic destruction of the Baathist state has come a near complete erosion of the Iraqi brand of nationalism that the Baath had managed to promulgate to varying degrees of success since the late 1960s.

- by Benjamin Isakhan
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- History, Military History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

Il Mediterraneo per lo scrittore e regista Pier Paolo Pasolini riveste un ruolo preminente nella sua produzione artistica, anche laddove la sua esistenza non venga direttamente percepita, esso è presente; mentre, in altri casi, la sua vitalità irrompe o si intravede attraverso gli elementi di una raffinata poetica. Come sostiene Italo Moscati Pasolini ha attraversato tutti gli oceani. Però il Mediterraneo non è piccolo in rapporto ad essi. È piccolo perché nei suoi film viene mostrato poco o per nulla. Non esiste. Lo si intuisce. Ma c'è. Ed è grande. 1 Il Mediterraneo in effetti di rado trova raffigurazione nelle sue pellicole, ciononostante si avverte la sua presenza, anche nei film realizzati oltre le terre situate sulle sponde del Mediterraneo. A tal proposito, attraverso le ricerche antropologiche compiute da Pasolini, i numerosi viaggi che lo hanno condotto in Africa e nel Medio Oriente, in Grecia e nel Sud Italia, egli ha colto i legami storici che intercorrono tra le molteplici culture fiorite nel Mediterraneo. Pasolini sente fortemente il richiamo dei paesi mediterranei e anche delle terre situate più in là, quelle ancora immuni dalla realtà consumistica e dal pressante livellamento culturale che stava corrodendo l'Italia (e il mondo occidentale), causa di prostrazione per lo studioso. In quei luoghi egli trova terreno fertile per dare espressione alla sua visione del mondo, dando vita a diversi film, documentari, appunti che traggono ispirazione dalle culture Mediterranee, orientali ed arabe. Queste ultime non possono essere considerate propriamente delle civiltà mediterranee, tuttavia lo scrittore le definisce come tali, per i forti legami che intuisce tra «i popoli latini», italici e del Medio Oriente. 2 In questo senso tra le numerose pellicole risultano interessanti Sopralluoghi in Palestina (1963), Appunti su un film in India (1968-1969), Le mura di Sana'a (1974) 3 e il Fiore delle mille e una notte (1974), ispirato alla raccolta di racconti orientali le Mille e una notte. Si potrebbero nominare numerose altre produzioni cinematografiche e testuali, alcune delle quali saranno ricordate nel corso di questo scritto. Quest'ultimo ha il proposito più modesto di delineare il pensiero dell'autore attraverso una lettura del Fiore delle mille e una notte, che in parte è stato realizzato nelle terre che si affacciano 1 Moscati (2008), Rassegna del 4 Novembre. 2 Annovi (2010), 1.

Η λειτουργία της επικοινωνίας είναι παρούσα σε κάθε κοινωνία, επηρεάζοντας σημαντικά την ιδεολογία, τη γνώση, την ανθρώπινη συμπεριφορά, καθορίζοντας μεταξύ άλλων και τις πολιτισμικές της κατευθυντήριές της. Ποικίλα θεωρητικά μοντέλα επικοινωνίας έχουν αναπτυχθεί ανάλογα με τις εκάστοτε συγκυρίες της εποχής που έδρασαν οι μελετητές τους, φτάνοντας στο σήμερα, που έρχονται να εφαρμοστούν στις απαιτήσεις και τα δεδομένα της σύγχρονης εποχής. Θα αναλυθεί μια τέτοια σύγχρονη επικοινωνιακή δράση υπό τη θεωρία ενός μοντέλου που ανταποκρίνεται στις ανάγκες της, παρουσιάζοντας
τεκμηριωμένα όλα τα επιμέρους στοιχεία της και αξιολογώντας την αποτελεσματικότητά της.

- by Nikoletta Syrigou
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- Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies (Communication)

This thesis examines various aesthetic strategies employed in the representation of Native Americans as part of the project of nation building. Whether these representational images are used in the ongoing production of the United States as a nation-state or as Native efforts toward decolonization, the discourses that contextualize the Native as image are constantly reconfigured. This research specifically investigates various methodologies of art history and anthropology—academic disciplines intimately involved in defining Native culture and subjectivity—in order to locate and analyze institutional sites where these discourses are produced, preserved, disseminated, and consumed, namely: the archive, the academy, and the museum. The dissertation focuses on case studies that illustrate various efforts by Native artists to decolonize these discourses. Ultimately, the work identifies approaches to reading the image of the Native body, with particular attention to self-portraiture, as instances in which the body is produced as a sovereign site.

- by Mario A Caro
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- Critical Theory, Semiotics, Cultural Studies, Native American Studies

Il contributo è dedicato alla formazione del linguaggio settoriale del design e al suo ruolo nella storia della lingua italiana del Novecento. L’emanciparsi della nuova disciplina dall’architettura — fin dagli anni Trenta del Novecento — e il suo rapido affermarsi nella realtà produttiva del boom economico italiano negli anni Cinquanta costituiscono le basi per la formazione di una lingua speciale. La lingua del design unisce e investe di nuovi significati gli elementi appartenenti sia ai linguaggi dell’arte e della tecnica sia alle lingue di filosofi ed economisti. Nel Novecento la prima pubblicazione dedicata interamente alla produzione artistica in serie, «Stile industria», diretta dall’architetto e designer Alberto Rosselli, proponeva una gamma di testi del tutto aderenti al pluristilismo della nuova disciplina — il design, nonché alla peculiare individualità di tutti i suoi artefici: da artisti ai teorici dell’architettura e del design, dai progettisti ai critici d’arte agli ideatori di messaggi pubblicitari. Il periodico trimestrale, poi bimestrale, di Rosselli accompagnò dal 1954 al 1963 la crescita della società italiana del boom economico, toccando un insieme di fenomeni e processi riguardanti diversi strati della popolazione coinvolti nella produzione e nel consumo dei beni. Col passar del tempo, e la progressiva acquisizione dell'importanza del design non soltanto nell’industria ma anche nella società, la lingua speciale della scrittura del e sul design divenne una delle fonti di innovazione dell’italiano, non soltanto a livello lessicale, con i tecnicismi affermatisi nell’uso, ma anche nella promozione di un modello testuale descrittivo, ricco di epiteti e termini astratti ("atmosfera", "comfort", "creatività" e "creativo", "essenzialità di linee", "funzionalità", "interazione"), costruito con periodi ampi e figure retoriche, in diversi testi pubblicitari di largo consumo.

- by Anna Siekiera
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- Cultural Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Design, Languages and Linguistics
- by Dominic Boyer and +1
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- Critical Theory, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology

This research examined Intergroup Relations and Social Developments in Jukun Society 1900 – 2000, substantiating the fact that intergroup relations had been a vital part of the relationship between the Jukun-speaking peoples of Nigeria and her neighbours. Significantly, the period 1900 marked the eventual conquest of Nigeria and the area referred to as the Middle Benue Valley where the Jukun and her immediate neighbours settled. The study focused on the origin and migration of the Jukun. It established the fact that the Jukun migrated from Yemen to their present location in Wukari were they had interactions with different groups such as the Tiv, Kuteb, Hausa, Chamba and a host of others. The nature of these relationships though was both mutual and conflictual. The most violent were those of the Tiv and Kuteb, especially the Tiv which had been reoccurring. The colonial administration and the policies that shaped the relationships between the indigenous people and other groups within the area of study have been enumerated. The study unraveled the question of the Jukun identity how vital it was in stabilizing them in their present location. Cultural fusion and the exchange of ideas, traditions, trade and wars are major factors of intergroup relations; hence they have been spotted to have characterized Jukun relations right from pre-colonial times till present.
The series of contacts the Jukun people had with their neighbours resulted in cultural transformations and social developments at various stages from the period of independence to the civilian, military and democratic era in Nigeria. These developments though, resulted from conflicts over farmlands; fears of political domination and the indigene settler question which were responsible in shaping the nature of intergroup relations between the Jukun and her neighbours.