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Urban, Greg. Metaculture: How Cultures Move through the World
In this text, Urban uses the framework of circulation to investigate the ways in which culture is socially transmitted. Urban is especially interested in the role that self-reflexivity plays in the definition and the transmission of culture. In other … Continue reading
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On Perspective…Elkins, Panofsky, Crary
Panofsky, Erwin Perspective as Symbolic Form In Perspective as Symbolic Form, Panofsky traces the transformation of perspective in art from antiquity to modernity. As Panofsky explains, Renaissance perspective systemized space on the canvas. The mathematization or rationalization of space … Continue reading
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Latour, Bruno
Latour, Bruno Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory In his introduction to Actor-Network Theory (ANT), Latour calls for a new approach to sociology—one, which rather than uses the social to explain a state of affairs and to … Continue reading
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Ihde, Don
Ihde, Don Technology and the Lifeworld Written at the heart of the intellectual push toward multiculturalism in the early 1990s, in Technology and the Lifeworld, Don Ihde offers a philosophy of technology that demythologizes pervasive modern assumptions, which skew … Continue reading
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Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking
In this book, Goodman joins the longstanding philosophical conversations about truth and reality, ultimately advocating that rather buying into the notion of Truth about a world already formed, we need to realize that we remake the world with various … Continue reading
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“Beyond Dichotomies” Walter Mignolo and Freya Schiwy
Concerned with reshaping the hierchical and contradictory dichotomies that permeate the modern/colonial world, in “Beyond Dichotomies,” Walter Mignolo and Freya Schiwy explain and demonstrate how “translation” has the possibility to imagine new futures, beyond dichotomies, in which the colonial world’s … Continue reading
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