Volume 10, Issue 2, 2013

Aldo MarroniPages 7-22DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310210 ABSTRACT The evaluation of subjectivity and the birth of aesthetics represent the presuppositions of the modern idea of civilization, intended as an endless progress of society. In the contemporary world, the degeneration of subjectivity into narcissism and aesthetics into intimism has destroyed the productive relationship between individual sentiments and society, leading […]

Evan OsbornePages 23-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310211 ABSTRACT A framework for thinking about the social role of art is developed. Using economic ideas, art is depicted as a capital asset – something that provides insight to society over some period of time. The idea of thinking about art as an asset enables a concrete distinction between high and

Mario PerniolaPages 41-48DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310212 ABSTRACT What kind of relationship has modernity established between knowledge and power? What forms does such a relationship take in contemporary society? The attempt here is to enter into the merits of its new formulations, focusing attention on the degradation to which power and knowledge have been subjected. The essay also

Geoffrey SkollPages 49-70DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310213 ABSTRACT A neighborhood in a US city seems to present a possibly unique exception to empirical generalizations and explanations of urban decline and occasional rehabilitation. Resisting decline, gentrification, and outside interests and actors, the neighborhood generated a subculture created by working class artists. As a valuable occasion for revising urban social

Paolo BartoloniPages 71-92DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310214 ABSTRACT In the essay “Das Wort” (“Words”), Martin Heidegger wrote about “renunciation” (verzicht) in the context of the poetry of Stefan George. According to Heidegger the entrance into the possibility of Saying, with the capital “S” – as opposed to the chatter of every-day life – could be achieved in the

Montserrat Martínez GarcíaPages 93-112DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310215 ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is not to focus on a particular thematic issue of Aesthetics, offering an exhaustive approach of it, but to display a broader map allowing to capture the essence of this topic from an overall perspective. To achieve it, I have paid attention to a

Pedro SargentoPages 113-125DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310216 ABSTRACT In the increasingly notorious philosophy of new materialism, a serious attempt to redefine subjectivity in terms of its non-dualistic nature can be ascertained. The criticism on dualisms draws directly on a wider critique focusing the anthropocentric and correlationist models that shaped modernity and modern thought. In this paper, I consider

Lingling Peng, Yang GengPages 127-140DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310217 ABSTRACT This paper explores iconicity in the metrical structure and the cultural value of Artistic Chinese calligraphy along the lines of Carles S.Peirce’s theory. It draws attention to the fact that there is a simple categorical correspondence between the outer forms of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy and their subject-matter, presenting

Janez StrehovecPages 141-156DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310218 ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore the notion of algorithmic culture in relation to new media and electronic literature. Such a culture considers human as being immersed in smart technology, which with its code and algorithms defines individual’s behaviour and decision-making, modes of socializing and participation, experiencing and perception. The following

A.A. Gede Rai Remawa, Imam Santosa, Biranul Anas ZamanPages 157-168DOI: 10.5840/cultura201310219 ABSTRACT Global era is an era of acculturation which may surface difficulties due to the tendency of becoming global chaos that may influence people’s thought. Everyone has their own views and has made changes with their own worldview perception; hybrid and heterodox. Changes without