scholarly journals Ironiens kultur og kulturens ironi. En undersøgelse af senmoderne sensibiliteter

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
Bjørn Schiermer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Key Words Camp ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Late Modern

Artiklen ønsker at undersøge, hvorledes kulturelle dynamikker udgør en faktor bag humorens historiske forandringer. Dens ambition er at levere en kulturdiagnostisk undersøgelse af nye populære sensibilitets- og socialitetsformer. Artiklen forsøger at gøre indsigter fra humorens filosofi hos S. Kierkegaard, J. P. Sartre og H. Bergson tilgængelige for sociologien ved at placere dem i en simmelsk kulturteoretisk ramme. Nutidens ironiske sensibilitetsformer forstås derved som en reaktion på det, som G. Simmel benævnte “en vækst i objektiv kultur“. Dernæst skal W. Benjamins allegoribegreb fungere som et værktøj til beskrivelse af nutidens ironiske samværs- og sensibilitetsformer. Artiklens sidste del undersøger sammenhængen mellem ironiske sensibilitetsformer (camp- og retrofænomenet) og disse fænomeners forbindelse til en ironisk fænomenologi; en “tragisk“ opfattelse af kultur. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Bjørn Schiermer: Irony’s Culture and Culture’s Irony: An Investigation of Late Modern Sensibilities The article attempts to clarify how cultural institutional dynamics contribute to historical developments in humour. This association is then used as folio for an analysis of contemporary popular forms of sensibility and sociability. The article wishes to contribute to the philosophy of humour and make it accessible for the sociology of culture by placing it in a Simmelian culture theoretical framework; a framework that attempts to understand concurrent ironic forms of humour as a reaction to the growth in, what Simmel termed “objective culture“. These impulses are then unified in W. Benjamin’s concept of the allegoric, which is intended to serve as a conceptual tool in describing contemporary social forms and sensibilities. The last part of the article consists of the unfolding of central phenomenological traits of contemporary popular culture and cultural reception (the camp and retro phenomenon) on the background of a “tragic“ or ironic understanding of culture. Key words: Camp, sociology of culture, theory of culture, Simmel.

Humanism and Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Theoretical Relationship ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between humanism and music, giving attention to important theoretical and historical developments, before focusing on four brief case studies rooted in popular culture. The first turns to rock band Modest Mouse as an example of music as a space of humanist expression. Next, the chapter explores Austin-based Rock band Quiet Company and Westcoast rapper Ras Kass and their use of music to critique religion. Last, the chapter discusses contemporary popular music created by artificial intelligence and considers what non-human production of music suggests about the category of the human and, resultantly, humanism. These case studies give attention to the historical and theoretical relationship between humanism and music, and they offer examples of that relationship as it plays out in contemporary music.

scholarly journals Intersektionalitet som sociologisk begreb

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sune Qvotrup Jensen ◽  
Ann-Dorte Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Black American ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

Intersektionalitetsbegrebet indebærer, at sociale differentieringsformer som køn, klasse, etnicitet og ”race” er gensidigt konstituerende både på et identitetsmæssigt og strukturelt niveau. Begrebet har haft stor gennemslagskraft og bidraget positivt til fornyelse af dansk og international kønsforskning. Da begrebet rummer potentialer til analyser af komplekse sociale differentieringer, er det imidlertid også relevant for en bredere sociologi. Nutidige højt differentierede samfund fordrer således begreber og metodologier, som er egnede til at gribe kompleksitet. Intersektionalitetstænkningen har teorihistoriske rødder i amerikansk sort standpunktsfeminisme. I Danmark blev begrebet først anvendt af poststrukturalistiske socialpsykologer, som gentænkte det og gjorde det velegnet til at analysere, hvordan komplekse identiteter skabes i hverdagslivet. Senere er begrebet blevet anvendt af kønsforskere med andre faglige og videnskabsteoretiske udgangspunkter. I artiklen fremhæves det, at intersektionalitetsbegrebet kan anvendes til at producere forskellige typer sociologisk viden. I den forbindelse præsenteres en typologi over forskellige tilgange til intersektionalitetsanalyser, som bruges som afsæt til at skitsere tre eksempler på analyser af social ulighed og eksklusion. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Sune Qvotrup Jensen and Ann-Dorte Christensen: Inter-sectionality as a Sociological Concept Contemporary highly differentiated societies require concepts and methodologies which are suited for grasping complexity. Intersectionality is a fruitful approach to analyze this complexity because social forms of differentiation such as gender, class, ethnicity and “race” are understood as mutually co-constructing at the level of individual identities and at the level of social structures. Intersectionality is a travelling concept which is theoretically rooted in black American feminism. In Denmark, the concept was first used by post-structuralist social psychologists, who adapted it to analyzing how complex identities were created in everyday life. Later on the concept was later taken up by gender researchers within the social sciences. This article analyses how the concept of intersectionality can be used to produce different types of sociological knowledge. It introduces a typology of approaches to intersectionality analyses, which serves as the backdrop for three examples of analyses of social inequality and exclusion. Key words: Intersectionality, complexity, social differentiation, gender, class, ethnicity.

Idolatry and Fixation: Modern Jewish Thought and the Criticism of Cosmetically and Technologically Perfected Female Faces in Contemporary Popular Culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Critique ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Modern Jewish Thought

Abstract This article argues that the ‘halakhically’ (legally) governed representational techniques employed by Jewish art are founded upon a counter-idolatrous theology of appearance: both human and divine. In drawing upon a range of Jewish sources from the ancient to the contemporary period that understand idolatry as an estrangement of the world from God, this article presents a Jewish feminist theological critique of alienation in the late modern popular visual regime, while suggesting that it is nonetheless possible for public culture to behold the divine image in images of the human without such images becoming idolatrous.

scholarly journals Har Casper Christensen og Frank Hvam læst Goffman? – om rollekompetence, kvindemoral og kynisk fornuft

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Mads Peter Karlsen ◽  
Kaspar Villadsen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Social Games ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Social ◽  
Critique Of Ideology

Artiklen tager afsæt i hypotesen, at forfatterne bag sit-com’en “Klovn“ har været inspirerede af pointer hos Goffman, Žižek og Sloterdijk. Den viser gennem analyser af udvalgte afsnit af “Klovn“, hvordan den aktuelle socialitet synes gennemsyret af et særligt sæt “kønnede scripts“, som i markant grad styrer den sociale mikro-interaktion. Ikke mindst er de to mandlige hovedfigurer stærkt orienteret imod en særlig “kvindemoral“. Artiklen argumenterer videre for, at serien kritisk fremstiller et særligt træk ved vores kultur, nemlig hvad Sloterdijk har betegnet som “kynisk fornuft“. Desuden drøfter artiklen forholdet mellem populærkultur, herunder satiren, og kritisk socialanalytik, samt diskuterer, hvorvidt “Klovn“ kan siges at være ideologi-kritisk. “Klovn“ læses som portræt af en radikal postmoderne tilstand, kendetegnet dels ved agenternes porøse konstruktion af identitet gennem fragmenterede sociale spil, dels ved seriens opløsning af realitets-referencer, hvor distinktioner mellem sandt/falsk, godt/ondt, maskulin/feminin er afløst af en refleksion over tegnenes æstetiske forførelsesvirkning. “Klovn“ fremviser disse elementer i det postmoderne med en satirisk, ironisk distance. Spørgsmålet er imidlertid, om den kritisk overskrider eller snarere reproducerer de ideologiske elementer, som den så illustrativt behandler. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Mads Peter Karlsen & Kaspar Villadsen: Have Danish Television Authors Read Goffman? This article hypothesizes that the authors of the Danish sit-com “Klovn“ [Clown] found inspiration in key points advanced by Goffman, Žižek, and Sloterdijk. Through analysis of selected episodes, it shows how our present sociality seems pervaded by particular “gendered“ scripts, which govern social micro-interactions to a considerable extent. The two male main characters are particularly oriented toward a kind of “female morality“. The article also argues that the sit-com critically exposes a specific characteristic of our culture, what Sloterdijk termed “cynical reason“. The article also reflects upon the relationship between popular culture, satire in particular, and critical social analysis, and discusses whether “Klovn“ can be called a critique of ideology. “Klovn“ is seen as a portrait of a radicalized postmodern condition, in which agents construct their fragile identities through fragmented social games, and where distinctions between truth/false, good/evil, masculine/feminine has been dissolved and supplanted by considerations about the pure efficacy of seduction of signs. “Klovn“ demonstrates these characteristics of the post-modern with an ironic distance. The question is, however, if it critically transgresses or rather merely reproduces the ideological elements that it treats so vividly. Key words: Popular culture, interactionism, gender roles, cynical reason, Goffman, Žižek.

The Rise of the New Korean Wave

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dal Yong Jin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Socioeconomic Context ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Historical Developments

This chapter first discuses the rise of Korean popular culture and its dissemination in Asian countries, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. It characterizes the Korean Wave into roughly two major historical developments: the Hallyu 1.0 era (approximately between 1997 and 2007) and the Hallyu 2.0, New Korean Wave, era (mainly from 2008 to the present). Although these two periods share some common phenomena, they are dissimilar in their major characteristics, such as the major cultural forms exported, technological developments, fan bases, and government cultural policies. It then sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the recent evolution of Hallyu in a socioeconomic context alongside its textual meanings. The chapter then discusses the hybridity in Korean popular culture followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.

Postapokaliptyczna biopolityka. Mechanizmy biowładzy w postkatastroficznych światach wyobrażonych kultury popularnej

2017 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Lech M. Nijakowski
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Late Modern

The article is devoted to biopolitics and forms of biopower in the post-apocalyptic worlds created in the texts of popular culture. The author’s theses are based on the analysis of 147 novels and short stories, as well as 246 films and series. The study describes the types of threats to the communities of survivors, strategies for dealing with them and their impact on the post-apocalyptic form of socialization. Although the analysis is not limited to the nuclear apocalypse, it pays special attention to radioactivity as a “magic factor” used in popular works. The author answers the question about what these thought experiments tell us about collective consciousness and “subconscious” of the late modern risk societies.

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