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#culturalstudies

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Martine Mussies :verified:

So happy that my article "Mad mermaids vs. beauty standards: Examining the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and dis/ability in online mermaid fan art (2010-2020)" was published in First Monday - one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. ^_^

Direct link: doi.org/10.5210/fm.v30i7.14230

#MermaidFanart #Academia
#academicmastodon #FanStudies
#DisabilityStudies #CulturalStudies
#GenderStudies #QueerMermaids
#RepresentationMatters

ScienceOpen

'The Glossary of Decolonial Language' - a report in #UCL Grand Challenges: #CulturalUnderstanding on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 scienceopen.com/document?vid=1

🖇️ #DecolonialLanguage #BuiltEnvironment #CulturalStudies #PostcolonialStudies

ScienceOpenThe Glossary of Decolonial Language<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d171e35">This work aims to develop an open-ended glossary of language used in the built environment. By demystifying terminology, the glossary empowers us to engage more effectively with decolonial discourse, offering comprehensive definitions, historical contexts, and suggested readings. It serves as a tool for understanding how the built environment can either perpetuate or challenge colonial influences, encouraging more informed approaches to design and urban planning. </p>
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andrecatta

For those who haven't realized yet, the perpetual battle for power is always about knowledge manipulation. As knowledge availability, mobilization, and accessibility become increasingly central to current technological paradigms in the West, it's time to take cultural and epistemological matters seriously.

#Technology #AI #KnowledgeManipulation #CulturalStudies #Epistemology #PowerAndControl #TechTrends #WesternTechnology #DigitalAge

axios.com/2025/03/06/exclusive via @digyoursoul

Illustration of a laptop with a laser beam extending from the camera, resembling a gun's laser sight
Axios · Exclusive: Russian disinformation floods AI chatbots, study findsBy Ina Fried
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Mainz University

Interested in languages & cultures? Watch our video at 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=iQf64VSbOq and choose your favorite subtitle language.

And: Join our online info session in English on the new interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree program "Languages, Cultures, Communication" on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 6 p.m. CEST 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/new-bachelo

YouTubeDer Bachelor Sprachen, Kulturen, Kommunikation an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzBy FTSK Uni Mainz in Germersheim
#FTSKUniMainz#StudyInGermany#StudyInEurope
Assoc for Scottish Literature

CFP: Foreclosure
a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

Theorising foreclosure in relation to British cultural production since 1960. The editors seek contributions on literary imagination, questions of genre & form, interpretive practices, & material conditions of cultural production

Deadline 18 July

@litstudies

raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/

The Raymond Williams Society · Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural MaterialismBritish cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…
#Scottish#English#Welsh
WerkstattGeschichte

Zum #InternationalArchivesDay heute greifen wir tief ins eigene #Heftarchiv & empfehlen #WerkstattGeschichte 5/1993 »#Archive«, hg. v. Gesine Krüger, u.a. mit Beiträgen zu Geschmack & Schweigen des #Archiv​s sowie zu vielen Beispielen aus der nach 1990 bewegten gesamtdeutschen Archivlandschaft:
➡ werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon

#archives#collections#Sammlungen
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Jonathan Emmesedi

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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.

Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.

Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.

I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.

Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.

Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.

These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.

Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....

versobooks.com/products/1035-m

www.versobooks.comMinima Moralia
#TheodorAdorno#MinimaMoralia#CriticalTheory
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