Browsing JLUdocs by Organisational Unit "GCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture"
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Affective bodies : nonhuman and human agencies in Djuna Barnes's fiction
(2016)Djuna Barnes s work is an intriguing example of the ways fiction makes its readers face the nonhuman as having potential for agency, and shows the entanglements be-tween human and nonhuman. In the stories, objects tend to ... -
"Alle Apparate abschalten." Conceiving Love and Technology with Heidegger And Kittler
(2020)This article explores Friedrich Kittler´s conception of the intersection of love with modern technology and illustrates the theoretical insights gained by considering Spike Jonze´s film Her (2013). The German media theorist ... -
Alterity - a category of practice and analysis : preliminary remarks
(2017)This article provides introductory remarks on the concept of alterity, which could stimulate the discussion on newsreels/media and their representation of the Other. Starting from the observation that alterity has often ... -
Another twelve years: Hungarian newsreels and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
(2017)During almost twelve years after the Soviet regime crushed the Hungarian Revolution, the Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the 1968 Prague Spring and the country s recent reformist trends. The ... -
Blogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Death
(2021)Illness memoirs gained popularity in the last decades of the 20th century. From the early 21st century, illness narratives proliferate online. This article examines illness life writing and near-death narratives by mothers ... -
Bringing Intimacies into the Discussion: On the Relevance of Addressing Intimate Relationships in a Migration Context
(2020)Topics such as gender, sexualities, and intimacies, recently experienced processes of instrumentalization and culturalization in European public and political discourses on migration matters. Culturalization is particularly ... -
Building New Concepts: Concepts in Indigenous Architecture as Interdisciplinary Enhancement Factor?
(2018)In contrast to the marginalization of indigenous cultures in architectural analysis, research on indigenous architecture has revealed extraordinary uses of concepts. The difficulty of analyzing the often decategorized ... -
Bypassing the law in a homeless vehicle: Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van
(2017)In The Lady in the Van, British playwright Alan Bennett recounts his two-decade acquaintance with a homeless woman who ended up living in a van in his driveway for 15 years. The story has gone through several incarnations, ... -
Caring like a State: Politicizing Love, Touch, and Precarious Lives in the Time of COVID-19
(2020)This essay builds on the extraordinary circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to tease out some of the ways in which love has been played out politi-cally in relation to migration. In Canada, as elsewhere in ... -
"Che tempo, che tempo": geology and environment in Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän
(2016)Critical readings of Frisch s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän [Man in the Holo-cene] have tended to read its heterogeneous and inter-medial form as a code for the mental disintegration of its protagonist. This paper argues ... -
A Coordinated Europeanization of the Comics Industry through Distribution: The Politics of the Global Journey of Astérix and Tintin through the Strategic Distribution of their Magazines and Contents in the 1960s
(2019)Researchers have usually focused on the Tintin and Astérix series global book diffusion through translation. However, little has been discussed about the distribution policies of the comics magazine format, a key factor ... -
Culture in the Marketplace
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Curating as research
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