Futures of the Study of Culture : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) Ser. ; v.8 .
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introductions: Futures of the Study of Culture -- Futures of the Study of Culture: Some Opening Remarks -- Collaborative Research in the Study of Culture -- I. Horizons for Future Reflections -- Taking Responsibility for the Future: Ten Proposals for Shaping the Future of the Study of Culture into a Problem-Solving Paradigm -- The "Future Sense" and the Future of the Study of Culture -- II. No Future? Politics and Concerns -- Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Culture: The Future(s) of the Humanities -- The Global Eye or Foucault Rewired: Security, Control, and Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century -- Richard Grusin No Future: The Study of Culture in the Twenty-first Century -- Beyond the Colonial Shadow? Delinking, Border Thinking, and Theoretical Futures of Cultural History -- III. Theorizing Pasts, Presents, Futures -- The Society of Singularities -- After Literature: The Geographies, Technologies, and Epistemologies of Reading and Writing in the Early Twenty-first Century -- The Integrative Potentials of Arts-based Research for the Study of Culture: A Reflection on The Lagoon Cycle by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison -- After Hybridity: Grafting as a Model of Cultural Translation -- Liquid Spaces in Modern Historiography -- IV. Future Connectivities: Economy, Natural Sciences, Ecology -- Culture in the Marketplace -- Cultural History, Science Studies, and Global Economy: New and Future Approaches -- Normativity and Culture in the Context of Modern Medicine: A Prospective Vision of an Elective Affinity -- Multispecies Futures and the Study of Culture -- Future Trading Zones for the Study of Culture: An Interview with Peter L. Galison -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
This series addresses key contemporary concepts and methods along with substantive issues from the realm of basic research in cultural studies. Its objective is to help shape contemporary discourse about cultural studies and at the same time to enrich this discourse for work in its specific disciplines.