On_Culture Vol. 02 (2016)
Recent Submissions
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Scenes of trash : aesthetic order and political effects of garbage in the home
(2016)The article discusses the role that non-humans and simple everyday objects play in political matters. It relates ideas of political theory to recent work in discard studies by asking how certain narratives and cultural ... -
When dinosaurs ruled the earth? Digital animals, simulation, and the return of ‘real nature’ in the Jurassic Park movies
(2016)This essay argues that the digital reanimation of dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park series not only epitomizes mankind s tortured relationship with other animal species on this planet, but also demonstrates how technology ... -
Pot and power : the role of the nonhuman in a very human business
(2016)The daily care and nursing of people of various ages with disabilities or illnesses con-stitutes historical and contemporary socio-cultural contexts which are said to be hu-man-centered. The formation of practices, ... -
Siren songs and echo's response : towards a media theory of the voice in the light of speech synthesis
(2016)In contrast to phonographical recording, storage, and reproduction of the voice, most media theories, especially prominent media theories of the human voice, neglected the aspect of synthesizing human-like voices by non-human ... -
"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 ... -
The non-human as such: on men, animals, and barbers
(2016)The article investigates a dialectic that, through the work of negation, paradoxically brings the non-human as anything but human back to the human. It shows how and why, throughout the criticism of all forms of ... -
Embodied, relational practices of human and non-human in a material, social, and cultural nexus of organizations
(2016)This article explores the significance of materiality and non- or other-human, espe-cially the role of body and embodiment in relation to intra- and inter-practices in or-ganizations and their culture from a phenomenological ... -
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 ... -
On_Culture, issue 2 : editorial
(2016)