Showing papers in "Journal for Cultural Research in 2020"
TL;DR: The authors consider how the work of artist Larissa Sansour in A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) represents a compelling seri...
Abstract: This article considers how the work of artist Larissa Sansour in A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) represents a compelling seri...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a gender critique of the Eliza effect is provided, which delineates the way in which the effect is operationalised in AI research even as it is ostensibly demystified.
Abstract: This essay provides a gender critique of the Eliza effect. It delineates the way in which the Eliza effect is operationalised in AI research even as it is ostensibly demystified, for example, in th...
6 citations
TL;DR: The personhood and politics of Malawi's foremost leader, nationalist and dictator, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who ruled Malawi for three decades, from 1964 to 1994 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This paper attempts a rememory of the personhood and politics of Malawi’s foremost leader, nationalist and dictator, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who ruled Malawi for three decades, from 1964 to 1994....
6 citations
TL;DR: This conceptual article examines how digital ‘user-structures’ act as ‘structuring mechanisms’ shaping apperception, ‘forming’ how the subject approaches the spatio-temporalities of their identities through a digitally enabled ‘micrological attitude’.
Abstract: This conceptual article examines how digital ‘user-structures’ (social media user-formats and smart phone camera technologies with editing apps and filters), act as ‘structuring mechanisms’ shaping...
4 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis of how culture, specifically tradition, affects well-being, i.e., happiness, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction, along with socioeconomic factors in E...
Abstract: This paper is an empirical analysis of how culture, specifically tradition, affects well-being, i.e., happiness, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction, along with socioeconomic factors in E...
2 citations
TL;DR: The authors place the explosion of popular interest in empathy within a specific historic context: the financial crisis of 2008, and the years of economic recession between 2008 and 2011. But they do not consider the impact of the economic crisis on mental health.
Abstract: This paper seeks to place the explosion of popular interest in empathy within a specific historic context: the financial crisis of 2008. The financial crisis, and the years of economic recession th...
2 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigates a productionist metafilm that exposes a singular organisational method: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, which is a reflexive work which displays th...
Abstract: This paper investigates a productionist metafilm that exposes a singular organisational method: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing. Productionist metafilms are reflexive works which display th...
2 citations
TL;DR: In TV fiction, over the past years, it has been possible to detect the recuperation of specific themes linked to a particular sociopolitical context: the Cold War as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In TV fiction, over the past years, it has been possible to detect the recuperation of specific themes linked to a particular sociopolitical context: the Cold War. The Russians and the Soviet era a...
2 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider Derrida's definition of limit as gramme, trace, and apriori, and propose a new definition of trace, which they call trace trace.
Abstract: ‘The mathematisation of time has limits,’ writes Derrida in ‘Ousia and Gramme.’ Taking this quote in all possible senses, this paper considers Derrida’s definition of limit as gramme, trace, and ap...
2 citations
TL;DR: The relationship between intimacy and ethics on the basis of the thematic preoccupations and aesthetic processes of the film, Touch Me Not, to re-visit the meanings of the body is explored in this article.
Abstract: The article explores the relationship between intimacy and ethics on the basis of the thematic preoccupations and aesthetic processes of the film, Touch Me Not, to re-visit the meanings of the body...
2 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of the original score for the 2015 film The Childhood of a Leader, which was composed by the enigmatic and reclusive popstar-turned-avant-garde-experimentalist Sco...
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the original score for the 2015 film The Childhood of a Leader, which was composed by the enigmatic and reclusive popstar-turned-avant-garde-experimentalist Sco...
TL;DR: In this article, a critical examination of the contemporary imperative to "trust science" from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalysis is presented, starting from contemporary scientific research, and concluding with a critical analysis of the need to trust science.
Abstract: This article offers a critical examination of the contemporary imperative to ‘trust science’ from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It begins by putting contemporary scientific research...
TL;DR: Advertising is omnipresent and cannot be ignored as mentioned in this paper, the advertisers intertwine the cultural practices prevalent in the country to make a lasting impact on the viewers, the culture of the nation has a...
Abstract: Advertising is omnipresent and cannot be ignored. The advertisers intertwine the cultural practices prevalent in the country to make a lasting impact on the viewers. The culture of the nation has a...
TL;DR: Walker had a complicated relationship to his own singing voice: he called it a beast and was terrified of the voice's own determination, a vocal expressivity that seemed to lie outside of him.
Abstract: Scott Walker had a complicated relationship to his own singing voice: he called it a beast. He was terrified of the voice’s own determination, a vocal expressivity that seemed to lie outside of him...
TL;DR: The introduction to the special issue on Scott Walker briefly highlights the different disciplinary engagements of the essays that follow and offers its own analysis of Walker's last songs from the... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Introduction to the special issue on Scott Walker briefly highlights the different disciplinary engagements of the essays that follow and offers its own analysis of Walker’s last songs from the...
TL;DR: The theorisation of community as a central aspect of culture remains one of Raymond Williams' most notable contributions as discussed by the authors, and some of its central points and critical contexts are revisited in this article.
Abstract: The theorisation of community as a central aspect of culture remains one of Raymond Williams’ most notable contributions This article revisits some of its central points and critical contexts with
TL;DR: The authors argue that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure, or even perfectness, but about a lack, emphasizing that the collector is not defined by aesthetic beauty or pleasure, but by a lack.
Abstract: The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfect...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use theories of identity, sociality, and mobility as a framework through which to examine the features of the Couchsurfing community and introduce the term hybrid collective as a th...
Abstract: This research uses theories of identity, sociality, and mobility as a framework through which to examine the features of the Couchsurfing community and introduces the term hybrid collective as a th...
TL;DR: The Cthulhu Mythos is widely referenced across popular culture today as discussed by the authors, and it is considered a seminal work of American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) who is in vogue more than ever before.
Abstract: American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) is in vogue more than ever before. His creation – the Cthulhu mythos – is widely referenced across popular culture today. We can rightly speak ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors follow the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and presentism to scrutinise the destructive practices of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the contrary.
Abstract: This article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and presentism so as to scrutinise the destructive practices of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the
TL;DR: In this article, Walker and Sunn O)))'s respective music, and their collaboration Soused, by way of Maurice Blanchot's notion of disaster which is framed in relation to the 'a...
Abstract: This paper attempts to listen to Scott Walker and Sunn O)))’s respective music, and their collaboration Soused, by way of Maurice Blanchot’s notion of disaster which is framed in relation to the ‘a...
TL;DR: The authors draw upon a classical cultural studies perspective and employ of participant observation in the socio-cultural scene of Anglo-western Islamic children's literature in Britain and North America, drawing upon a participant observation approach.
Abstract: Drawing upon a classical cultural studies perspective and employment of participant observation in the socio-cultural scene of Anglo-western Islamic children’s literature in Britain and North Ameri...
TL;DR: This article explored the geopoetics of Scott Walker's lyrics and sonics, where the term geo-theoretic is construed as a concern with the geographical, geological, ecological and cosmological in...
Abstract: In this article, I explore the geopoetics of Scott Walker’s lyrics and sonics, where the term geopoetics is construed as a concern with the geographical, geological, ecological and cosmological in ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that opposing cultural values can coexist in the same culture at a time, and that the United States is typically portrayed as a society representative of individualist and individualistic values.
Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that opposing cultural values can coexist in the same culture at a time. The United States is typically featured as a society representative of individualist and ...