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What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the ready for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity-a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability-could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period. Uniting reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the line between telling all and telling all too much.
Romantisme --- Relations écrivains-lecteurs --- Renommée --- Livres et lecture --- Aspect socio-culturel
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Bandes dessinées --- Dans la presse --- Aspect socio-culturel. --- Spirou (périodique) --- Bandes dessinées --- Spirou (périodique)
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Media technologies do not simply record or represent trauma but transform trauma into a cultural form that is multifariously commodified in different contexts. In this crucial new text, Ibrahim introduces us to the notion of 'technologies of trauma', in deconstructing the idea of trauma as a cultural form in society. Ibrahim examines the trajectory of witnessing and testimony through modernity, utilizing the technologies of trauma as a conceptual lens. Such a notion acknowledges humanity's reliance on technologies to transmute history, trauma, or memory, transforming technologies from medium and machine into artefacts for circulation and exchange. The transcendence of medium into artefacts as sites of trauma equally highlights the socio-political frames within which testimony is extracted and witnessing is enacted, unleashing trauma as a cultural form and a resonant genre of popular consumption. The development of print, photography, television, and digital platforms as technologies of trauma reiterates the popularization of trauma as a cultural genre, witnessing and testimony as cultural forms reiterating how these are intimately implicated in our emergence as active consuming communities of trauma and in tandem how these remake us as vulnerable subjects through the circulation of trauma within a popular consumption economy.
Traumatisme. --- Traumatisme. --- Témoins. --- Aspect socio-culturel --- Dans les médias --- Dans les médias
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Nous ne choisissons pas le milieu socioculturel dans lequel nous grandissons : c'est la loterie sociale. Mais nous sommes aussi le produit d'une combinaison unique des gènes de nos parents : c'est la loterie génétique. Jusqu'à présent l'effort politique s'est focalisé sur la correction de l'arbitraire social, pour apporter aux personnes issues de milieux défavorisés ce que leur famille ne pouvait leur donner. Mais peut-on évacuer complètement la dimension génétique? Même si les errements idéologiques attachés à la génétique incitent à la plus grande prudence, nous devons mieux connaître les découvertes de cette science en plein essor et la mettre au service du progrès social. Telle est l'intention de Kathryn Paige Harden dans cet ouvrage qui nous présente les dernières avancées de la discipline et des pistes pour réduire les inégalités liées à la génétique. Un livre révolutionnaire qui ouvre un débat nécessaire.
Genetics --- Génétique --- Génétique humaine --- Variabilité génétique --- Justice sociale --- Biologie et société --- Aspect socio-culturel. --- Human genetics --- Social justice --- Variation
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"Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV"
Mass media and culture --- Sound in literature. --- Sound in mass media. --- Son --- Médias --- Aspect socio-culturel --- United States --- Civilisation --- Civilization
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À partir de 1750, on a peu à peu cessé, en Occident, de tolérer la proximité de l'excrément ou de l'ordure, et d'apprécier les lourdes senteurs du musc. Une sensibilité nouvelle est apparue, qui a poussé les élites, affolées par les miasmes urbains, à chercher une atmosphère plus pure dans les parcs et sur les flancs des montagnes. C'est le début d'une fascinante entreprise de désodorisation : le bourgeois du XIXe siècle fuit le contact du pauvre, puant comme la mort, comme le péché, et entreprend de purifier l'haleine de sa demeure ; imposant leur délicatesse, les odeurs végétales donnent naissance à un nouvel érotisme. Le terme de cette entreprise, c'est le silence olfactif de notre environnement actuel.
Odors --- Smell --- France --- Social conditions --- Manners and customs --- Social aspects --- Odorat --- Odeurs --- Aspect socio-culturel --- Histoire --- Hygiène --- Perception olfactive --- Conflits sociaux --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Sociologie. --- Odors - Social aspects --- Smell - Social aspects --- Europe --- History. --- Social life and customs
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This book updates a long standing problem: how do people understand and prepare for the future using the technologies at hand and that they expect to have imminently? Drawing on experts from a variety of fields, the volume provides novel and penetrating insights that reflect innovative research on both headline-gripping and historical problems. Organized in three sections, the first examines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and mobile communication as they both cause disruptions and solve problems at both personal and society-wide levels. The second section explores specific technologies in social contexts. Here the focus is on AI, robotics, and even smart speakers in real-world scenarios. The third and final section addresses deeper implications for how emerging media has been used to come to terms with the problem of what will happen next. At no other time in recent memory have people been so concerned about how to move from the disturbed current situation into an improved future state, one that promises a brighter future for all; in this regard, these timely and penetrating studies offer sound guidance. James E. Katz is Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University’s College of Communication, USA, where he directs its Division of Emerging Media Studies. His publications on the effects of artificial intelligence, social media, mobile communication, and robot-human interaction have been internationally recognized and widely translated. Among his recent volumes are Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media (with Kate Mays, 2019) and Philosophy of Emerging Media (with Juliet Floyd, 2015). Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. Her publications, translated into several languages, span the history and philosophy of logic, mathematics, language, symbolism, and new media, focusing especially on the history of twentieth century philosophy and philosophical aspects of emerging media. Her recent books include Wittgenstein’s Annotations to Hardy’s Course of Pure Mathematics (with Felix Mühlhölzer, 2020) and Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics (2021). Katie Schiepers is Division Administrator for Emerging Media Studies at Boston University, USA. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Classics and Master of Science in World Heritage Conservation and is currently pursuing advanced studies in educational policy.
Human sciences --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Mass communications --- Information systems --- sociale media --- cultuur --- Perspective temporelle. --- Innovations technologiques. --- Aspect socio-culturel --- Artificial intelligence --- Digital humanities. --- Humanities --- Social aspects.
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L'auteur étudie la construction de la représentation de soi dans les outils de communication informatisée, que ce soit pages personnelles, forums, blogs, logiciels de partage de photos, réseaux sociaux ou messagerie instantanée, et ses implications sur les relations humaines et l'image de soi.
Online identities --- Digital media --- Virtual reality --- Social aspects --- Web 2.0 --- Identité numérique --- Réseaux sociaux --- Avatars (informatique) --- Facebook (site web) --- Aspect social --- Identité numérique. --- Réseaux sociaux. --- Aspect social. --- Online identities - Social aspects --- Digital media - Social aspects --- Virtual reality - Social aspects --- Aspect socio-culturel.
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Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy.
Tea --- Imperialism --- History, Modern. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Camellia sinensis --- Camellia thea --- Camellia theifera --- History. --- Social aspects --- World history --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Camellias --- History, Modern --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Thé --- Impérialisme --- Histoire. --- Aspect socio-culturel --- Thé --- Impérialisme
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"Les seins des femmes sont l'objet de fantasmes et d'injonctions sans fin. Ronds, fermes et hauts, ni trop petits ni trop gros, à la fois sexy et nourriciers... seraient-ils le siège visible, désigné, ressenti d'une condition féminine objectivée ? Sans doute mais pas seulement. Camille Froidevaux-Metterie a choisi d'explorer l'expérience vécue des femmes en menant l'enquête auprès d'une quarantaine d'entre elles, de tous les âges. Elles évoquent la naissance de leurs seins, le port du soutien-gorge, la séduction et le plaisir sexuel, l'allaitement et le poids des normes esthétiques, jusqu'à la transformation plus ou moins consentie de cet organe sensible par la chirurgie... Au fil des propos et des portraits de seins, se décline la singularité de chacune, tissée du double fil rouge de l'aliénation et de la libération. Grands oubliés des luttes féministes, les seins des femmes ne sont pas seulement vecteurs d'assignation mais aussi d'affirmation et d'émancipation."
Breast --- Body image in women --- Women --- Social aspects. --- History --- Psychology. --- Social conditions --- Sein --- Image du corps chez la femme. --- Dans les représentations sociales --- Aspect socio-culturel --- Aspect psychologique --- Image du corps chez la femme --- Femmes --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect social --- Psychologie --- Conditions sociales
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