A Companion Blog for Open Access Journals in Arts, Humanities and Cultural Studies.
In his article about authorship and property rights, Martin Fredriksson points out that both of them emerged in the 18th century and have coalesced, since then, into the contemporary copyright law. A Blog Article...
This essay discusses the decline in the interest in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, which has triggered in academic circles and in the mainstream and trade press a debate about the artistic...
This essay discusses the creation of literary canons of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) fiction. A Blog Article by Izabella Penier. Literary canons are instruments of creating national identities. As Benedict Anderson has...
The article by Claudia Leeb, entitled “Mystified Consciousness: Rethinking the Rise of the Far Right with Marx and Lacan” and published in Open Cultural Studies on November 10, 2018, uses the theory of psychoanalysis...
As the end of 2018 approaches, a year that celebrated 200 years of the German philosopher Karl Marx, new research detailing core concepts coined by Karl Marx and French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan offers a...
Néstor García Canclini, a celebrated Mexican cultural studies thinker, weaves together divergent strands of critical theories, to reflect on the present moment in which social networks, algorithmic decision-making and digital technologies deepen the crises of capitalism, as the capacities of citizens, state institutions and social movements become redefined.
The ideas of Karl Marx on temporality, as expressed in, among other works, The German Ideology, co-authored with Friedrich Engels and recently re-published in German by De Gruyter, are critically examined in a recent...
The essay will draw on Gary Hall’s proposal that Open Access can “represent an opportunity, a chance, a risk, for the (re)politicization—or, better, hyperpoliticization—of cultural studies” (Hall, 2008 p. 202) to see what implication...
The essay will briefly investigate the changing environment of journal publishing that propels the upsurge in the number of scholarly journals in the field of cultural studies as well as cultural studies’ muted response...
Prof. Toby Miller, the Editor-in-Chief of Open Cultural Studies, discusses how this Open Access, peer-review journal has evolved since its launch, its positioning as a mega-journal in its academic field and its prospects in...
