Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere

2014 ◽  
pp. 3-35
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Contemporary Culture

scholarly journals Ciało w procesie konstruowania tożsamości

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Marzec
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Cultural Forces

The main intention of my text is to describe the specific of the somatic turn of cultural studies and, to follow Chris Barker’s proposition, “the desire to understand the ways in which the body becomes the object of shaping and disciplining by social and cultural forces – i.e. how the body acquires meaning in contemporary culture”. The above problem provokes the consideration of the mutual relationships between the culture of late modernity and the category of identity (especially the body in the process of identity construction). The goal outlined in this way aims to present contexts and space for the manifestation of the issues of the body in contemporary culture, The aim of the proposed deliberations is to present the problem of the body from the perspective of reflexive identity (A. Giddens), constructivism perspective (Z. Melosik, A. Gromkowska, M. Bogunia-Borowska), in selected therapeutic systems (J. Kabat-Zinn, A. Lowen, S.&C. Block) and in the final section I present the category of the body in the integral approach to development (K. Wilber). Also, I shortly summarize my analysis and I point to the dangers of the presented approaches especially in the dominant instant culture practices.

scholarly journals Contemporary Culture and the Undoing of Feminism: Review of Angela McRobbie's The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies

A
 couple
 of
 times
 a
 year
 (usually
 around
 International
 Women’s
 Day
 or
 the
latest
 gender
 controversy)
 there’ll
 be
 a
 journalist
 on
 the
 phone,
 asking
 me,
 ‘where
 is
 feminism
 now?’ 
Angela 
McRobbie’s
 The 
Aftermath 
of
 Feminism: Gender,
 Culture
 and
 Social
 Change
 provides
 the
 perfect
 answer,
 though
 one
 that
 probably
 won’t
 be
 dutifully
 reported
 in
 the
 pages
 of
 the
 Courier­ Mail.
 McRobbie
 has
 always
 been
 a
 preeminent
 figure
 in
 feminist
 cultural
 studies,
 and
 this
 work
 highlights
 her
 continuing 
importance.
Indeed, The 
Aftermath 
of 
Feminism
 reminds
 us 
of 
the 
power
 of 
feminist 
cultural
 studies 
to 
explain
 what’s 
going 
on,
whether
 this 
is 
in 
the
media,
 popular
 culture,
 everyday
 life,
 governmentality,
 the
 corporate
 world,
 or
 their
 interrelationships.
 And
 McRobbie’s
 diagnosis
 of
 ‘a
 social
 and
 cultural
 landscape
 which
 could
 be
 called
 post‐feminist’
 
is
 uncompromising,
 far‐reaching 
in
 scope,
 and 
deeply 
disturbing.

scholarly journals Applied cultural studies and culture management: research methodology

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
N. Maksymovska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Rational Management ◽  
Culture Development ◽  
Scientific Facts

The purpose of the article is to study the interconnection of applied cultural studies and culture management, develop methodological basis for analysis of efficiency of their integration, define viability of realizing cultural practices in the context of applied cultural studies branch. The methodology. By analyzing and synthesizing the scientific knowledge, a flexible methodological system is created, which enables analyzing the present and predicting the future, and create, not only in theory, but in practice, the culture­creation technologies, thus setting the vector for culture development. The leading methods of research are analysis of scientific facts, juxtaposition of theoretical positions, generalization and synthesis of methodological basis for defining leading scientific approaches to researching applied cultural studies and culture management. The results. Utilization of developed methodology enables examination of applied cultural studies as a mechanism of culture creativity, and culture management as a tool of scientifically justified regulation of this process. Thanks to applied cultural studies, management gains deep meanings, and not only rational management and realization of its own functions, and applied cultural studies is manifested in practice and transforms into a technological plane the meanings and concepts of contemporary culture model. The topicality. It was defined that gnoseological, worldview, logic­gnoseological, scientific content­related, technological and scientific­methodological levels of methodology allows to create the applied cultural studies and culture management analysis model in a substantial interconnection. Justification was provided for some scientific approaches, which are taken as the baseline of methodological analysis of integrating applied cultural studies branch and management in the sociocultural field. The practical significance. According to the results of the study, applied cultural studies have a broad social mission, which manifests itself in creation of advantageous environment of interaction in the object field of culture, constructing mechanisms of implementing innovations in the sociocultural field, and developing future cultural practices models, which will eventually promote establishment of its new formats. In order to achieve this task, culture management implements social marketing, innovative and investment varieties of management technologies, branding, purposeful communication and human resource management, etc., which opens new perspectives of diversifying research of culture management in the context of applied cultural studies.

РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦІЯ АРТ-РИНКУ У ПОПУЛЯРНІЙ КУЛЬТУРІ

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Admink Admink ◽  
Сергій Русаков
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Constant Support

Автор досліджує репрезентацію арт-ринку в контексті популярної культури. Методологічною основою став міждисциплінарний підхід Cultural Studies, зокрема теорія «схема культури», що уможливлює вивчення динаміки сучасної культури. Популярна культура постає як знаковий чинник, що відображає сучасний культурно-мистецький процес та, водночас, впливає на подальший розвиток сфери культури і мистецтва. Репрезентація є важливою особливістю феномена арт-ринку, що потребує постійної підтримки свого дискурсу. Арт-ринок постає як смислотворчий простір для виникнення, презентації і споживання сучасного мистецтва. Для ілюстрації авторської думки аналізуються бестселери про мистецтво С. Торнтон, які розглядаються в якості посередника між арт-ринком і читачем, що сприяють поширенню культурно-мистецьких ідей серед широкої аудиторії і, будучи творами популярної культури, потребують інтелектуальної, емоційної і моральної активності читача. Твори популярної культури активно реагують на бажання людей розширювати свої обрії, пропонуючи все більше нових культурних текстів, що у свою чергу сприяють соціокультурному розвитку. The author investigates the representation of the art market in the context of popular culture. The methodological basis for the article was the interdisciplinary approach of Cultural Studies, in particular the theory of «circuit of culture», which makes it possible to study the dynamics of contemporary culture. Popular culture emerges as a important factor that reflects the contemporary cultural and artistic process. At the same time it influences the further development of the sphere of culture and art. The representation of the art market becomes an important feature of the art market phenomenon, which requires a constant support of its discourse. The art market emerges as a meaningful space for the emergence, presentation and consumption of contemporary art. Sarah Thornton's bestsellers about art are analyzed to illustrate the author's thoughts. Bestsellers about art are seen as a mediator between the art market and the reader. Readers promote the spread of cultural and artistic ideas among a wide audience and. These ideas, as works of popular culture, require intellectual, emotional and moral activity of the reader. Popular culture works are actively responding to people's desire to broaden their horizons. They are offering more and more new cultural pieces, which contribute to social and cultural changes themselves.

scholarly journals On myths and fashion: Barthes and cultural studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Patrizia Calefato
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Transcendental Reduction ◽  
Objects Of Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Activism

Roland Barthes’s work has confronted contemporary culture with the question of what happens when an object turns into language. This question allowed Barthes to “construct” well known cultural objects — from novels to music, from images to classical rhetoric, from love to theatre — in an unthought way, and to create new, even more unknown ones — from contemporary myth to fashion, from Japan to food culture. In this paper, Barthes’s cultural criticism is considered alongside with the issues raised by Cultural Studies. More specifically, Barthes’s constant reflection on the myth undoubtedly entitles us to connect his cultural criticism to the work that, in those same years, was being produced by the English forge of Cultural Studies, namely the so-called “Birmingham school”. Even today, Barthes’s work makes it possible for semiotics to be, to use his expressions, both “the science of every imagined universe”, and a mathesis singularis, rather than universalis, that is to say a systematic way to approach the singularity of the objects of knowledge. On the basis of this “transcendental reduction”, we can therefore wish for a “second birth” and a transvaluation of linguistics and of semiotics, both to be applied through varied and disseminated forms of intellectual activism.

scholarly journals Interdyscyplinarny charakter kulturoznawczego pojęcia kultury

1970 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Monika Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Contemporary Culture

Two tendencies determine the use of the concept of culture within Polish cultural studies: the tendency to understand culture in a generalized, comprehensive way and the tendency to narrow it down, to particularize it. The former tendency is visible, among other things, in the concept of culture adopted by the main founding traditions of Polish cultural studies: the Wrocław tradition established by Stanisław Pietraszko and the Poznań tradition introduced by Jerzy Kmita. The latter tendency is inherent in these conceptions of cultural studies that take as their object different fragments of culture for example contemporary culture, or artistic culture. The problem of interdisciplinarity presented in the paper is asked in the context of the notion of culture specific for cultural studies. The paper investigates, whether and in what sense the concept of culture is interdisciplinary. Do cultural studies researchers employ a specific notion of culture shared by them and suitable therefore to perform the function of integrating cultural studies as the domain of interdisciplinary studies? Which notionof culture – the general or the particular one – can serve the purpose better?

The Limits of Post-marxism: The (dis)Function of Political Theory in Film and Cultural Studies: a Reply to Paul Bowman

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-350
Author(s):  
Andrew Rowcroft
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Ernesto Laclau

This reply set sets out to briefly evaluate the limits of post-Marxism in contemporary culture before turning to Paul Bowman's innovative use of the contributions of Ernesto Laclau for considering globally popular cultural discourses on martial arts. Building upon the critical and creative openings developed by Bowman, the reply focuses on distinctions between the particular and the universal, the concrete and the abstract, in relation to martial arts practices. The focus on these concepts opens up the ability to contemplate new concrete universals.

scholarly journals The Myth of the Jedi: Memory and Deception in the Star Wars Saga

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Rónán L. MacDubhghaill
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Do So

The importance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies can hardly be underestimated, no more than it can be denied. Many narratives emerging out of the world of science fiction have become fully integrated within the contemporary cannon of popular understanding, mythology and reference. Amongst these narratives, perhaps no story is more fully integrated with contemporary culture than the original Star Wars saga. More current in the contemporary social imagination than the norse sagas, or those of ancient greece, Star Wars shares many of their epic qualities. The focus on the heroic characteristics of individuals, for example, against the backdrop of a great conflict between forces of good and evil, in which the righteous and the virtuous prevail is the standard narrative of many epic cultures. Indeed, this is the origin of classic notions of virtue, which stay with us to this day (MacIntyre, 2007). In that sense, this saga could be understood as yet another permutation of a story which has been told since time immemorial. Yet, as with the classical sagas, one must be sensitive to problematic aspects within their narratives; to the version of morality which they promote, and the ways in which they do so. This main focus in this essay will be just one such problem: the (mis)use of memory within the narrative of the original Star Wars saga, and deception as it relates to the myth of the Jedi.

The sense of obligation is culturally modulated

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bender
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Sense Of Obligation ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

Abstract Tomasello argues in the target article that, in generalizing the concrete obligations originating from interdependent collaboration to one's entire cultural group, humans become “ultra-cooperators.” But are all human populations cooperative in similar ways? Based on cross-cultural studies and my own fieldwork in Polynesia, I argue that cooperation varies along several dimensions, and that the underlying sense of obligation is culturally modulated.

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