Aggro-truth: (Dis-)trust, toxic masculinity, and the cultural logic of post-truth politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Jayson Harsin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Logic

Extraordinary voices: Helen Keller, music and the limits of oralism

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Michael Accinno
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Vocal Production ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Voice Teacher ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Opera Singers

Abstract This article examines iconic American deafblind writer Helen Keller's entræ#169;e into musical culture, culminating in her studies with voice teacher Charles A. White. In 1909, Keller began weekly lessons with White, who deepened her understanding of breathing and vocal production. Keller routinely made the acquaintance of opera singers in the 1910s and the 1920s, including sopranos Georgette Leblanc and Minnie Saltzman-Stevens, and tenor Enrico Caruso. Guided by the cultural logic of oralism, Keller nurtured a lively interest in music throughout her life. Although a voice-centred world-view enhanced Keller's cultural standing among hearing Americans, it did little to promote the growth of a shared identity rooted in deaf or deafblind experience. The subsequent growth of Deaf culture challenges us to reconsider the limits of Keller's musical practices and to question anew her belief in the extraordinary power of the human voice.

Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Ralph Flores ◽  
Fredric Jameson
Keyword(s):  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Cultural Logic

“Is an Archive Enough?”: Megatextual Debris in the Work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-165
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Fest
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Rachel Blau Duplessis ◽  
Film And Video

In the twenty-first century, digital technologies have made it possible for writers and artists to create massively unreadable works through computational and collaborative composition, what the author has elsewhere called megatexts. The ubiquity of texts appearing across media that are quite literally too big to read—from experimental novels to television, film, and video games—signals that the megatext is an emergent form native to the era of neoliberalism. But what happens to other long forms, such as the twentieth-century long poem, when written in an era of megatextuality? Rachel Blau DuPlessis's work, including Drafts (1987–2013) and Traces, with Days (2017–), readily suggests itself as a case study for thinking through a megatextual impulse in the twenty-first-century long poem. Though her work is plainly indebted to its modernist precursors (H.D., Pound, Williams, etc.) while disavowing at every level of its composition a patriarchal will toward totality, DuPlessis's various experiments in the long poem are also thoroughly contemporary and respond to the economic, military, political, and environmental transformations of the neoliberal era by drawing upon and producing fragmentary, megatextual debris. This essay positions DuPlessis's work amidst a larger twenty-first-century media ecology, which includes both the megatext and the big, ambitious novel, and argues that rather than simply (and futilely) resist the neoliberal cultural logic of accumulation without end, DuPlessis hypertrophically uses the megatext's phallogocentric form against itself in order to interrogate more broadly what it means—socially, culturally, economically—to write a long poem in the age of hyperarchival accumulation.

Invisibility and Visibility in Alternative Organizing: A Communicative and Cultural Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joëlle M. Cruz
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Situational Model ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Communicative Processes

This study reengages organizational communication scholarship on invisibility and visibility through a cultural lens. Departing from Western-centered approaches, I deploy African feminisms to examine how organizational members communicatively negotiate invisibility and visibility in a different cultural logic and context. I focus on market women’s susu groups—grassroots organizations—in postconflict Liberia, West Africa. I conducted 100 hr of participant observation and 40 interviews with susu group members in Monrovia, Liberia. I unearth a communicative situational model to culture. At a micro-level, the model uncovers three situational dimensions—temporal, relational, and structural—that shape how organizational members negotiate invisibility and visibility. At a macro-level, the model contributes to emerging work on culture and organizing. In conclusion, the study moves past understandings of culture as a factor to consider underlying assumptions shaping how we conceptualize communicative processes, here invisibility and visibility.

scholarly journals Los nuevos decorados del arte

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Carlos Fajardo Fajardo
Keyword(s):  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Crisis Of Modernity ◽  
Fredric Jameson

RESUMENEl presente artículo pasa revista y analiza algunas de las tesis que Jean François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson y Jean Baudrillard construyeron para dar cuenta de las consecuencias de la llamada crisis de la modernidad y sus repercusiones en el arte. Se presta especial atención a categorías estéticas que surgieron a partir del resquebrajamiento de los pilares del edificio estético de Occidente bajo la globalización y la posmodernidad. De Lyotard se abordan su reflexión sobre la crisis de los grandes relatos y su noción de lo sublime, de Jameson sus apreciaciones sobre el pastiche, la moda retro bajo las lógicas culturales del capitalismo avanzado, y, de Baudrillard, los conceptos de transestética y estetización, y la pérdida de ilusión estética en la sociedad tecno-mediática y de mercados.PALABRAS CLAVESPosmodernidad, sublime, pastiche, moda retro, estetización.MUSO ALLI CHIKUNA SUGLLAPIKai kilkape willakume imasam kai kimsa runakuna Jean Francois Lyotard, Fredic Jameson y Jean Baudrillard rurankuna tukui mana allilla kaskakunata Kawangapa imasam kunaurra, ruranchi, paikuna allilla ñawe churranaku Kawangapa imasam kunaurra ruranchi, paikuna allilla ñawe shuranaku Kawangapa mana paquerechu tuku, kaipe willaku llukanchi llullarenga Allila mana kai atun llakiikuna pasarrengapa mana chingarrengachu Tukui allila ruranakuska tukui runakunamanda.IMA SUTI RIMAI SIMINespa musukauangapa, atun iuiai, kauaskatak rurangapa, kunaurra musu Kauai, retro, estatización.THE NEW SCENERIES OF ART. ABSTRACTThis article reviews and discusses some of the theses that Jean Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard advanced to account for the consequences of the so-called crisis of modernity and its impact on art. Special attention is given to the aesthetic categories that emerged from the breakdown of the pillars of the Western aesthetic building under globalization and postmodernity. From Lyotard, the article picks up his reflections on the crisis of the grand narratives and his notion of the sublime; from Jameson, his theoretical insights on the pastiche and the retro in fashion under the cultural logic of advanced capitalism; and from Baudrillard, the concepts of transaesthetics and aesthetization, and the loss of the aesthetic illusion in the techno-media and market society.KEYWORDSPostmodernism, sublime, pastiche, retro fashion, aesthetization. LES NOUVEAUX DÉCORS DE L’ART. RÉSUMÉCet article examine certaines des thèses que Jean François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson et Jean Baudrillard ont élaborées pour tenir compte des conséquences de la dite crise de la modernité et de son impact sur l’art. Une attention particulière est donnée aux catégories esthétiques qui ont émergé de l’effondrement des piliers de l’édifice esthétique occidental dans le cadre de la mondialisation et du postmodernisme. De Lyotard on aborde sa ré- flexion sur la crise des grands récits et sa notion du sublime ; de Jameson ses vues sur le pastiche et la mode rétro dans la logique culturelle du capitalisme avancé, et, de Baudrillard, les concepts de transesthétique et esthétisation, et la perte de l’illusion esthétique dans la société techno-médiatique et des marchés.MOTS CLÉSPostmodernisme, sublime, pastiche, mode rétro, esthétisation.OS NOVOS ENFEITES DA ARTE. RESUMOO presente artigo passa revista e analisa algumas das teses que Jean Françoeis Lyotard, Fredic Jameson e Jean Baudrillard construíram para dar conta das conseqüências da chamada crise da modernidade e suas repercussões na arte. Presta-se especial atenção a categorias estéticas que surgiram a partir do rachamento dos pilares do edifício estético do Ocidente sob a globalização e a pos-modernidade. De Jameson suas apreciações sobre o pasticho, a moda retro sob lógicas culturais do capitalismo avançado, e, de Baudrillard, os conceitos de trans-estética e estetização, e a perda de ilusão estética na sociedade tecno-mediática e de mercados.PALAVRAS CHAVESPos-modernidade, sublime, pasticho, moda retro, estetização.

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