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The Politics of Postmodernism
01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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26 Jun 2001
TL;DR: Lockyer as mentioned in this paper presents a contextual framework for dance in the screen media, including dance on screen, postmodern dance strategies on television, hybrid sites and fluid bodies, and a discussion of the relationship between the two.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Foreword B.Lockyer Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Dance on Screen: A Contextual Framework Images of Dance in the Screen Media Video Dance: Televisualizing the Dancing Body Postmodern Dance Strategies on Television Hybrid Sites and Fluid Bodies Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: In this article, the importance of whiteness in shaping the built environments of sport is examined, and the relationship between desire for rational, respectable, organized space and subjects and the production of white(ned) normativity is discussed.
Abstract: In this article, I ask the following question: what importance does “whiteness” play in shaping the built environments of sport? I examine (a) the significance of studying space; (b) how race and space intersect; (c) how whiteness is a historical legacy of architectural modernism, the style of design that characterizes many North American and Canadian sport spaces; and (d) the relationship between desires for rational, respectable, organized space and subjects and the production of white(ned) normativity. Using a spatial ethnographic approach, I show how discourses of whiteness and neoliberal discourses of respectability, degeneration, progress, reproduction, renewal, and reinvigoration are brought to bear on the subjects who administer, use, and maintain everyday sport and recreation spaces such as locker rooms. I argue that these discourses historically proceed through the racialized logics of modernity and serve to evoke or enforce hidden signs of racial (spatial) superiority and cultural hegemony.
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01 Nov 2011
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of clinical pictures of a sublime object and the politics of the schizophrenic sublime in the context of modernity, postmodernity, and the sublime text of psychoanalysis.
Abstract: CLINICAL THEORY 1 Psychiatry on schizophrenia: clinical pictures of a sublime object 2 Schizophrenia: the sublime text of psychoanalysis CULTURAL THEORY 3 Antipsychiatry: schizophrenic experience and the sublime 4 Anti-Oedipus and the politics of the schizophrenic sublime 5 Schizophrenia, modernity, postmodernity 6 Postmodern schizophrenia 7 Glamorama, postmodernity and the schizophrenic sublime Conclusion
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13 Mar 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the narrative and the emerging genre of culinary memoirs to understand how it represents self-writing and food within the travel narrative genre and reveal a spiritual dimension, synonymous with an inward journey.
Abstract: Bearing semantic elements of family myths and feminine discourse, culinary memoirs invite questions about their literary pertinence as a contemporary genre. This study considers their narrational ambitions, their poetic quality, the genre(s) from which they emerge, and also that which they define. We hypothesise that they have a literary relevance at the intersection of several genres. The examination of an extensive corpus allows us to observe its diversity and intertextuality, as well as the historical perspective of precursory texts, offering a new reading of earlier works.Rooted in autobiography and food writing, with traits of travel literature, culinary memoirs are a hybrid genre that explores identity, the quest for which is often motivated by the diasporic loss of homelands, or family trauma. We analyse the narrative and the emerging genre to understand how it represents self-writing and food within the travel narrative genre. As well as weaving culinary traditions with recipes, memoirs reveal a spiritual dimension, synonymous with an inward journey. Appraising culinary memoirs from the perspective of foodways, as culturally-defined consumption, and travel literature, elucidates the central questions of identity and origins within the context of inner and outward displacement.The genre’s multiple paradoxes are symptomatic of its resourcefulness, drawing from diverse elements to create an overarching food narrative, as a corpus of recipes that embodies a universal truth, to which nourishment, both physical and symbolic, holds the key.
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TL;DR: The Benetton United Colors campaign illustrates how modern advertising has been radicalized into an explicitly political forum as discussed by the authors, and the decontextualization of placing issues within the framework of product promotion creates a tone of discordant meaning not adequately explained by mass culture critiques of consumerism.
Abstract: The Benetton United Colors campaign illustrates how modern advertising has been radicalized into an explicitly political forum. Although lifestyle companies often attempt to associate their products with progressive social movements, Benetton was the first company to eliminate pictures of its products from its advertisements. In 1989, ads depicting Benetton's sportswear were replaced with powerful and problematic visual images of AIDS, environmental disasters, terrorism, and racism. Social issues became the embodiment of Benetton's product and, through the transformation into commodities, lost their significance as problematic human conditions. The campaign illustrates how the decontextualization of placing issues within the framework of product promotion, creates a tone of discordant meaning not adequately explained by mass culture critiques of consumerism. This case study recommends that advertising should be studied as a complex and contested social discourse within 1990s consumer culture.
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