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Spaces of Culture

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026216
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Culture written by Mike Featherstone and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis? They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive representation of technology as a form of instrumentality, and demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. This analysis of public space is essential to an understanding of issues like global citizenship and multicultural human rights.

Brooklyn Spaces

Author : Oriana Leckert
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934285
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Spaces written by Oriana Leckert and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an incubator of culture and creativity, Brooklyn is celebrated and imitated across the world. The settings for much of its dynamic underground scene are the numerous industrial spaces that were vacated as manufacturing dwindled across the huge borough. Adapted, hacked, and reused, these spaces host an eclectic range of activities by and for Brooklyn’s unique creative class, from DIY music venues to skillsharing centers. These are spaces to make art together, throw parties and concerts, host classes and performances, grow vegetables, build innovative products, and, most importantly, to support and inspire one another while welcoming more and more collaborators into the fold. In Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, Oriana Leckert introduces us to the creators driving Brooklyn’s cultural renaissance, and in their company takes us on a tour of these unique alternative spaces. Whether a graffiti art show in an abandoned power station, a circus school in a former ice house, or a shuffleboard club in a disused die-cutting factory, these spaces present a vibrant cross-section of life in the borough where trends in music, fashion, food, and lifestyle are set. A chronicle of a thriving and ever-renewing scene, this book will appeal to everyone who’s interested in the unique energy that makes Brooklyn Brooklyn.

Spaces of Danger

Author : Heather Merrill
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348775
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Danger written by Heather Merrill and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.” The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed. The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting—for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa—this volume peels back layers of “situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations.” Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.

Spaces of Culture

Author : Scott Lash
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761961222
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Culture written by Scott Lash and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis? They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive representation of technology as a form of instrumentality, and demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. This analys

Spaces and Meanings

Author : Olga Lavrenova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030151689
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Spaces and Meanings written by Olga Lavrenova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force. Introducing time and space to the discussion, the author then describes the nature of mythological time, eternity versus timelessness, and the semantics of sacred landscapes, space and ritual. These concepts are further developed in discussions of the metaphorical nature of cultural landscape, and the city as metaphor. The book explores semiotics in the cultural landscape, examining the genesis of concepts from geographical images to signs and the axiological dimension of geographical images. In her approach to the idea of cultural landscape as text, she provides detailed examples, including the Russian landscape as agent provocateur of the text, and the culture philosophical aspects and semantics of travel. It establishes the cultural landscape as a phenomenon of culture that is fixed in geographical space with the help of semiotic mechanisms—a specific area of culture of life possessing functional and ontological self-sufficiency. This book appeals readers and researchers interested in the philosophy of culture, semiotics of space, and the philosophical dimensions of culture and geography.

Spaces of Global Cultures

Author : Anthony King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134644469
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Global Cultures written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.

In/Different Spaces

Author : Victor Burgin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520202993
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book In/Different Spaces written by Victor Burgin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book on art and philosophy

Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places

Author : Fran Lloyd
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205913
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places written by Fran Lloyd and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from different disciplines and different locations, this volume provides a rich and diverse mapping of how the secret and forbidden operate across different subjects and different geographies, extending far beyond physical locations. It is present in domains ranging from language, literature, and cinema to social and political life. This refreshing and thought-provoking collection of essays will prove invaluable for researchers and students.

Spatializing Culture

Author : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317369637
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Spatializing Culture written by Setha Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.

Creative Spaces

Author : Niall Geraghty
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 : 9781908857484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Creative Spaces written by Niall Geraghty and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction /Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda --I. Where are the margins?1. The politics of the in-between: the negotiation of urban space in Juan Rulfo's photographs of Mexico City /Lucy O'Sullivan ;2. The interstitial spaces of urban sprawl: unpacking the marginal suburban geography of Santiago de Chile /Christian Silva ;3. Cynicism and the denial of marginality in contemporary Chile: Mitómana (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, 2009) /Paul Merchant --II. The struggle for the streets. 4.Community action, the informal city and popular politics in Cartagena (Colombia) during the National Front, 1958-74 /Orlando Deavila Pertuz ;5. On 'real revolution' and 'killing the lion': challenges for creative marginality in Brazilian labor struggles /Lucy McMahon ;6. Urban policies, innovation and inclusion: Comuna 8 of the city of Buenos Aires /Anabella Roitman --III. Marginal art as spatial praxis. 7. Exhibitions in a 'divided' city: socio-spatial inequality and the display of contemporary art in Rio de Janerio /Simone Kalkman ;8. The spatiality of desire in Martín Osterheld's La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega's Dromómanos (2012) /Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda ;9. AfterwardCreative spaces: uninhabiting the urban /Geoffrey Kantaris.

Spaces of Identity

Author : David Morley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134865309
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Identity written by David Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674179738
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 written by Stephen Kern and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION From about 1880 to World War I, sweeping changes in technology and culture created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. Stephen Kern writes about the onrush of technics that reshaped life concretely--telephone, electric lighting, steamship, skyscraper, bicycle, cinema, plane, x-ray, machine gun-and the cultural innovations that shattered older forms of art and thought--the stream-of-consciousness novel, psychoanalysis, Cubism, simultaneous poetry, relativity, and the introduction of world standard time. Kern interprets this generation's revolutionized sense of past, present, and future, and of form, distance, and direction. This overview includes such figures as Proust Joyce, Mann, Wells, Gertrude Stein, Strindberg, Freud, Husserl, Apollinaire, Conrad, Picasso, and Einstein, as well as diverse sources of popular culture drawn from journals, newspapers, and magazines. It also treats new developments in personal and social relations including scientific management, assembly lines, urbanism, imperialism, and trench warfare. While exploring transformed spatial-temporal dimensions, the book focuses on the way new sensibilities subverted traditional values. Kern identifies a broad leveling of cultural hierarchies such as the Cubist breakdown of the conventional distinction between the prominent subject and the framing background, and he argues that these levelings parallel the challenge to aristocratic society, the rise of democracy, and the death of God. This entire reworking of time and space is shown finally to have influenced the conduct of diplomacy during the crisis of July 1914 and to havestructured the Cubist war that followed.

Commercial Cultures

Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Cultures written by Peter Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study overturns the assumption that it is commerce that works by logical economic models while culture is invoked to explain the behaviour of the international consumer.

Spaces of Belonging

Author : Elizabeth Houston Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022833
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Belonging written by Elizabeth Houston Jones and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate. The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the 'postmodern maps' that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today. Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing.

Creating Spaces of Freedom

Author : Els van der Plas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Creating Spaces of Freedom written by Els van der Plas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Spaces of Freedom reveals some of the alternative spaces where banned art seeks refuge, while continuing to communicate its inspiring message of freedom and hope.

Capitalizing on Culture

Author : Shane Gunster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802036933
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Capitalizing on Culture written by Shane Gunster and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the work of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Capitalizing on Culture presents an innovative, accessible, and timely exploration of critical theory in a cultural landscape dominated by capital. Despite the increasing prevalence of commodification as a dominant factor in the production, promotion, and consumption of most forms of mass culture, many in the cultural studies field have failed to engage systematically either with culture as commodity or with critical theory. Shane Gunster corrects that oversight, providing attentive readings of Adorno and Benjamin's work in order to generate a complex, non-reductive theory of human experience that attends to the opportunities and dangers arising from the confluence of culture and economics. Gunster juxtaposes Benjamin's thoughts on memory, experience, and capitalism with Adorno's critique of mass culture and modern aesthetics to illuminate the key position that the commodity form plays in each thinker's work and to invigorate the dialectical complexity their writings acquire when considered together. This blending of perspectives is subsequently used to ground a theoretical interrogation of the comparative failure of cultural studies to engage substantively with the effect of commodification upon cultural practices. As a result, Capitalizing on Culture offers a fresh examination of critical theory that will be valuable to scholars studying the intersection of culture and capitalism.

The Disappearing L

Author : Bonnie J. Morris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143846178X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing L written by Bonnie J. Morris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s. 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection, presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association LGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry—but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s? Most are vanishing from the calendar—and from recent memory. The Disappearing L explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for lesbians in the era of woman-identified activism. Through the stories unfolding in these chapters, anyone unfamiliar with the Michigan festival, Olivia Records, or the women’s bookstores once dotting the urban landscape will gain a better understanding of the era in which artists and activists first dared to celebrate lesbian lives. This book offers the backstory to the culture we are losing to mainstreaming and assimilation. Through interviews with older activists, it also responds to recent attacks on lesbian feminists who are being made to feel that they’ve hit their cultural expiration date. Bonnie J. Morris is Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies at both George Washington University and Georgetown University. She is the author of several books, including Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals and Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era, also published by SUNY Press.