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A Book Review by Adam Zmarzlinski To read Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society is to begin a self-reflective journey through one’s own day-to-day interactions with technology. Part-history and part-political sociology, the text is...
In their 1975 article “En allant à l’expo : l’ouvrier, sa femme et les machines”, Jacques Rancière and Patrice Vauday associate the universal exhibitions, such as those in 1867 and 1900, with spectacles as...
Karina Jarzyńska Published Online: 2017-09-20 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0013 Abstract The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as...
Ellen Herkes and Guy Redden Published Online: 2017-09-23 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0012 Abstract MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can...
Anita Kasabova Published Online: 2017-09-06 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0010 Abstract This paper examines shame in three narratives involving the social self and the evaluative perception of that self. The semiotic square is used for analysing some of the...
Laura M. F. Bertens Published Online: 2017-09-02 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0009 Abstract The paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013)...
TOPICAL ISSUE GUEST EDITED BY Dr Katharina Gerund (Erlangen/Nürnberg) Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena) DESCRIPTION In contemporary popular culture, black womanhood frequently takes centre stage. It occupies an increasingly central place and articulates new...
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