‘One man’s junk culture . . .’: A state-of-the-art review on the problem of mass culture in Argentine cultural studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792097212
Author(s):  
Diego Labra
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Simpsons

Could you truly understand contemporary Argentine culture without considering the local appropriation of The Simpsons? In this article, we argue that mass culture has been a blind spot of Argentine social sciences and humanities because of the particular development of local cultural studies. In order to articulate a critique and build upon it, we will review relevant literature, identify promising current research, and offer an outline on how to rethink the problem of production, circulation and consumption of culture in 21st-century Argentina and beyond.

RIDING THE WILD OCEAN: HORATIU RADULESCU'S SUBCONSCIOUS WAVE IN THEORY, PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING

Tempo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (299) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Sam Cave
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Lecture Recital ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Cd Recording ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts ◽  
Digital Sound

AbstractThis article focuses on Radulescu's 1984 Subconscious Wave, for guitar and pre-recorded digital sound, a work that features on my 2019 solo CD recording Refracted Resonance, for Métier Records, alongside music by Tristan Murail, Christopher Fox, George Holloway and myself. The article places the work in the context of Radulescu's output, demonstrates how it displays the key aesthetic concepts that drive his music and shares my insights into the technical and interpretive aspects of preparing the piece for performance and recording. The article has been adapted from a lecture-recital given at the 2021 edition of the 21st Century Guitar Conference, which was hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Portugal in March 2021.

scholarly journals Meaghan Morris: Cultural Historian

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Healy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Historian ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cultural Theorist

Meaghan Morris was celebrated at the Meaghan Morris Festival as a mentor, a cultural theorist, a much-loved colleague, a lecturer, a polemicist and a stirrer, a teacher, an internationalist, a translator and much else besides. Here, I want to add to that chorus by making a very specific case: that Meaghan Morris is the most significant and innovative living Australian cultural historian. This characterisation is, in part, rooted in my own investments in work at the intersections of cultural studies and cultural history but it is of much greater significance. An influential contemporary characterisation of cultural studies is that it was a boomer reaction to existing disciplinary constraints, a manifestation of anti-canonical impulses that choose instead to celebrate marginality while at the same time making an innovative case for the ways in which culture matters. It follows that if, today, academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities have become highly flexible (rather than canonical) and maintained their institutional hegemony while simultaneously becoming irrelevant to much knowledge-work and that, today, margins and mainstreams seem like next-to-useless terms to describe cultural topographies or flows and that, today, culture matters nowhere so much as the rapacious industries of media cultures, then perhaps the moment of cultural studies seems of historical interest only.1

The concept of legal custom in philosophy, cultural studies and legal anthropology

2021 ◽  
pp. 162 (184)-173 (193)
Author(s):  
A.V. Agoshkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
English Version ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Domestic Science

Despite the ambiguous attitude of legal researchers to the place and role of legal customs in modern legal systems, this topic is of great interest in domestic science. The transitive nature of Russian society is a recognized reason. The goal was set — to conduct a comparative analysis of approaches to this phenomenon in three social sciences and humanities — philosophy, cultural studies and legal anthropology. Based on the analysis of a number of works of the last 5 years, it was concluded that the greatest cognitive potential is contained in legal anthropology — a relatively young science that studies the legal existence of mankind (and its constituent ethnic groups, peoples, nations) at all stages of the development of this existence, from archaic to modern. English version of the article on pp. 184-193 at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/the-concept-of-legal-custom-in-philosophy-cultural-studies-and-legal-anthropology/65909.html

scholarly journals ПОИМАЊЕ СУВЕРЕНОСТИ И ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИЈЕ СА АКЦЕНТОМ НА СРПСКИ ТРАНЗИЦИОНИ ДИСКУРС

TEME ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 599
Author(s):  
Војислав Бачанин
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Transitional Processes

Even though the process of transition from a centrally planned to a market economy in Serbia started in the early 90's of the last century – domestic transitional discourse becomes increasingly predominant only after the changes that occurred on the 5th of October 2000. Structural changes that were initiated have influenced an increasingly widespread scientific and research debate on globalization and transitional processes, which remains relevant to this date. In contrast to the prevalent affirmative views on globalization processes in the first decade of the 21st century, the second decade was, in terms of these discussions, characterized more by critically-minded debates on the consequences of globalization. Within these debates as a "loyal companion" of the notion of globalization, the notion of sovereignty is often used, especially in that "post-historical" context of the weakening of the state as an institution. Given that these debates continue to be considerably present within domestic social sciences and humanities research platforms, it seems that the multidisciplinary approach to these concepts could shed additional light on their nature and point out to the possible inconsistencies and inadequate use. Therefore, in the focus of the analysis is the problem of the relation between the concepts of sovereignty and globalization, which is observed both with reference to different concepts in the theoretical, constitutional and international legal doctrine, and to the already existing tendencies in domestic sociological, economic and political debates.

Why (what) does(n’t) kitsch teach?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pluta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article is to draw attention to kitsch as a category in the field of social sciences and humanities with appropriate implications for the pedagogical discipline I place the problem of kitsch within a specifically understood and cultivated cultural studies reflection. The system of concepts necessary for this embedding is presented in the following order: culture – art – participation in culture (art) – introduction to participation in culture (art). In the adopted perspective, delineating the boundaries between “art”, “bad art”, “anti-art”, “kitsch” is not very attractive. This problem is relieved of unnecessary tensions. The key here is the way of understanding the concept of culture, which implies an appropriate way of understanding art and, consequently, participation in and introduction to culture (art) (which is the primary function of education). The aim of the publication is to familiarize the reader with various ways of thinking about kitsch and to invite him to discuss it.

scholarly journals The Hamburgers in the Fridge: An Interview with Professor Nikolas Rose about Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Neuroscience and Critical Friendship

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristofer Hansson ◽  
Karolina Lindh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Guest Speakers

During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the ‘Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society’. Professor Nikolas Rose was one of the invited guest speakers; he is a researcher who strongly influences cultural reflections on neuroscience (Rose 2007, Abi-Rached & Rose 2010, Rose & Abi-Rached 2013). He visited us on the 22nd of March 2017 and during his visit Kristofer Hansson and Karolina Lindh took the pportunity to interview Professor Rose to hear more about his thoughts and experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration between neuroscience researchers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

scholarly journals Do we need social sciences and humanities in the 21st century (Optimization of social sciences and humanities in the European and American higher school)

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
Onishchenko I.
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Banking System ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities

This article explores the level of teaching of social sciences and humanities cycle within the frameworks of Ukrainian educational system, crisis and optimization of curricula as well. Attention is paid to the fact that, the correspondence of modern education system to the task (challenges) of contemporary society can be viewed as a sharp question for consideration that the scientists have been coming across for almost twenty years of the 21st century. It is argued that the impending revolution will affect (if not completely destroy) the political world order, to which humanity must be prepared. Perhaps today, there is a blurred understanding (human being as a social/political subject) of direct correlation of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. A certain country’s political system or financial-banking system works are not crucial ones. A man is aimed at getting the earned money on time - transfer it from his ATM and spend it as he/ she wishes. He/she needs harmony in everything from family relations to the political climate. The emergence of new socio-political models with new forms of ideologies requires the flexibility towards new realities. It is argued that it is necessary to change educational approaches not only in the sense of its organization but in its content as well. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the old educational model set the primary goal - to provide education, now a different task - people should become independent, creative managers of their future. In this sense, only knowledge of a particular profession is insufficient. Proved to work in a new way in today’s environment, you need to see and understand these new conditions. It is argued that humanitarian knowledge shaping the socio-political culture of the individual, as an integral part of modern state formation, can come to the rescue. It is argued that it is possible to form a political culture, in particular, by studying the disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle in higher education institutions. We have presented the models of social sciences and humanities teaching in higher educational institutions of the USA, Great Britain, France, Japan and South Korea. Attention is drawn to the content of educational programs in educational institutions in the United States and some European countries, which since 2015 have begun to increase the scope of study of humanities not only in classical universities, but also in technical ones

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