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Digital Art in the Artlike Culture and Networked Economy

Janez StrehovecPages 137-152DOI: 10.3726/b10729_137 ABSTRACT Contemporary art based on new media is situated at the intersection of art-as-we-know-it, smart technologies, digital and algorithmic culture, networked economy, (post)politics, as well as bio and techno sciences. Contemporary art enters into intense relations with these fields, including interactions, adoption of methodological devices and approaches, changes of the areas […]

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Representations of China by Western Travellers in the Blogsphere

Stefano CalzatiPages 153-172DOI: 10.3726/b10729_153 ABSTRACT This article adopts a transmedial perspective in order to investigate narrative similarities and differences between print and online travel writing. Texts, which are contemporary and Western-authored, are written either in English, French and Italian and they all focus on China as the travel destination. Drawing upon Gérard Genette and Mieke

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Shared Privacy and Public Intimacy: The Hybrid Spaces of Augmented Reality Art

Horea AvramPages 173-182DOI: 10.3726/b10729_173 ABSTRACT Can we speak about a specific real-virtual spatiality in the contexts offered by the post-desktop technological philosophy and practice? Does Augmented Reality have the potential to produce a different type of space (essentially hybrid) in which private and public converge up to the point of their cross identification? More exactly,

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Spiritual Ecology and Environmental Ethics

Devendra Nath TiwariPages 49-68DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161313 ABSTRACT This article is about a spiritual response to environmental crisis, an emerging field of ethics that joins ecology and environmentalism with the awareness of sacred within the creation2. It investigates into the Vedic texts for finding out the philosophical attitude about the earth and our spiritual obligations and responsibilities

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Marx and Industrial Age Aesthetics of Alienation

Dale JacquettePages 89-105DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161315 ABSTRACT Karl Marx’s socio-economic analysis of capitalism and the conditions of industrial production are meant to imply the competitive alienation of workers in at least two important senses: (1) Workers are alienated from their tools and materials because under capitalism they generally do not own, develop or cultivate the means of

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Marginocentric Hong Kong: Archaeology of Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas

Jinghua GuoPages 107-124DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161316 ABSTRACT Playing an irreplaceable role for the whole speedy development in East Asia, Hong Kong is an example of a multicultural cosmopolitan urban centre in the Pacific Rim with strong ties with the Atlantic. However, with regards to mainland China, Hong Kong has always held a marginal position, carrying multiple marginal

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The Visual Turn in Academic Research and University Study Programs in Lithuania

Agnieška JuzefovičPages 125-136DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161317 ABSTRACT Visual turn and replacement of linear sequential communication with visual analogues cause growing variety of scopic regimes and interest in the topic of visuality. This interest is particularly apparent in Lithuanian academic magazines Santalka (Coactivity) and Creativity Studies (former Limes), which are devoted to the topics of philosophy, creative industries

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Culture Matters: the Question of Metaphor and Taarof in Translation

Mahdi Dahmardeh, Abbas Parsazadeh, Saman RezaiePages 137-160DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161318 ABSTRACT This study is designed to delve into the issue of culture from the lens of pragmatics as far as the translation of Persian expressions is concerned. To this end, the researchers explored two problematic areas in translation: the first one is a universally challenging element of

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