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We are living in an age of crisis or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee crises have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status quo, can the rhetoric of crisis be used to foment urgency around issues like climate change and financialization, or does framing a situation as a crisis play into the hands of the existing political order, which then seeks to tighten the leash by creating a state of emergency?Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years, the protest movements that have risen up in response, and the use of the term in political discourse. Tariq Ali, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, and Joseph Vogl offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly discussing the alternatives that new social movements have offered, alongside an exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Roberto Esposito on theories of community. Sparring over crucial developments in these past years of catastrophe and the calamity of everyday life under capitalism, they shed light on how crises and the discourse of crisis can both obscure and reveal fundamental aspects of modern societies.(https://cup.columbia.edu/book/critical-theory-at-a-crossroads/9780231186797)

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Critical theory --- Power (Social sciences) --- Political participation --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Europa --- Maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen --- capitalism --- social movements --- Maatschappelijke ontwikkeling --- Crisis --- Cultuur --- social criticism

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Anthropocene, post-humanism, biopolitics ? These terms are often used first in an academic context before being used outside the academic world, once their usefulness has become known to the wider public. Whether in official policy documents, in catalogues of expositions or in applications for subsidies, these terms tend to show up regularly.In this book, 50 terms that are important in contemporary cultural theory are explained by experts in the field. They clarify what the term means, how it is used in different contexts and which discussions the term has triggered. Some of these terms refer to political issues (surveillance, political theology, multitude), gender and queer studies (post-feminism, heteronormativity, intersectionality), media theory (convergence, algorithm) or the art world (curating, participation, performance).This book functions as a compendium of key terms in contemporary cultural theory. It is of use for students in the humanities, but also for professionals in the cultural field.Bron : http://www.pelckmanspro.be

Sociology of culture --- 7.039(038) --- Kunst- en cultuurtheorie ; 21ste eeuw ; terminologie --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2015 ; woordenboeken --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- 316.7 --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- kunstgeschiedenis --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- woordenboeken --- naslagwerk --- 7.01 --- 001.8 --- 130.2 --- Cultuur --- Cultuursociologie --- Taalgebruik --- Cultuurstudies --- culture-related concepts --- Cultuurstudie --- Toerisme --- cultuursociologie --- cultuurfilosofie

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There is a silent cry of certain people, whose existence has been erased from the map. Gayarti Spivak refers to them as subaltern and she argues that these people cannot be heard by the elite society. She criticises the post-colonial elite and she takes a stand for the oppressed. In a similar reading, Edward Said, as well as Clare Harris, take a stand for the communities in which cultural identity suffers from marginalization. In their texts, they make an effort to show each culture by means of photography. These people are in a constant exile, one that is both internal and external. In this thesis, I examine different theoretical approaches to the vast topic of photography. I highlight the importance of photography and its role in Said’s After the Last Sky (1985) and Harris’ Photography and Tibet (2016). I present Said’s views on Palestinians and the way he uses photography, in relation to Eduardo Cadava’s Words of Light (1997). Cadava stresses the importance of images not only in preserving an event of the past, but also in showing a truth that cannot be questioned. I analyse Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988) in my effort to comprehend whether the subaltern can be heard. Later on, I examine photographs on the topic of Palestine and Tibet, from After the Last Sky and Photography and Tibet. Palestinians and Tibetans are in a constant exile and in an endless silent resistance. Why are certain cultures unrecognized and kept in the shadow? Could photography help them preserve their cultural identities? Their demands are not just geographical; the most important thing for them is their voice to be heard and the freedom to show their identities. Keywords: cultural identity, subaltern, photography

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Deze masterproef behandelt de evolutie van het veelzijdige muziekbegrip indie, in het bijzonder in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, de Verenigde Staten en België. Indie is niet alleen een genre, maar ook een productiewijze en een levenshouding. Hoewel er discussie bestaat rond de oorsprong van de term, wordt algemeen aangenomen dat hij voor het eerst geïntroduceerd werd rond 1980 in het Verenigd Koninkrijk waar de eerste hitlijsten voor onafhankelijke muziek samengesteld werden. Omdat de roots van indie in bij de punk en post-punk liggen, leeft er bij indiegemeenschap een voorliefde voor de do-it-yourself attitude die nog altijd aanwezig is. Vandaag de dag kent het genre meer commercieel succes en aandacht dan op elk ander punt in zijn geschiedenis. Hoe de term indie geëvolueerd is van de professionele organisatie die erachter zit, tot een specifieke sound en zelfs een marketingbegrip wordt verklaard in deze thesis.

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This thesis will underline the issue rooted in a mainstream ideological approach towards the existence of garbage and art in times of raised ecological awareness. Within the realm of a neoliberal stance towards ecological crises, garbage has turned into a critical substance that systematically recalls individual’s responsibilities to the pollution of the earth’s ecosystems. Having entered the domain of art, the ideological approach of ecology is being mirrored in the countless artworks in which garbage is recalling its own critical existence. Throughout this thesis I argue that 21st-century “Trash Art” provides its audience little or no space for critical investigation into the existence of garbage as a politically constructed entity. The morally loaded sculptures or installations made out of detritus provide, instead, visitors with feelings of guilt. In the search to come to a broader understanding of garbage through art, I exemplify how an artistic approach towards material detritus as a cultural and political construct has been flourishing in the 20th century art history. With the power to reflect on issues of inclusion, exclusion and otherness, artists have been systematically using cast-off materials as poetic tools for cultural critique and political dissent. As a way of bringing these reflections to live, I decided to analyze an exhibition that I organized in the frame of my studies related internship. The exhibition “Objects in Transit” which took place in Brussels during the weekend of the 24th and 25th of May, brought the cultural life of garbage to the foreground and builds further upon my thesis’ research.