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Pandora's hope Ch1 (Headshop Reading Group)
Reading Group Discussion: first chapter of Bruno Latour's book 'Pandora's hope: essays on the reality of science studies'. He raises problems with the philosophical settlement of modernism and articulates what he calls a 'nonmodern' alternative to describe scientific research. All Welcome.
:: STARTED BY aim for joviality
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:08 20.12.06
Examples of Simulation/Simulacra
Baudrillard, illustrations, films
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:45 19.12.06
What importance "The Theorist" as a name and an aesthetic in Theory?
What importance "The Theorist" as a name and an aesthetic in Theory?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:11 11.12.06
Headshop Reading Group
Suggestions of material and plans for reading group threads. What kind of material would you like to study with other Barbelith people, and how do you want to go about it?
:: STARTED BY Jackie Susann
:: 66 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:50 03.12.06
Postmodern Nightmare
I am lost in the ghoulish realm of relative perspectives and there is not moral in sight. Help! ...Anyone?
:: STARTED BY light, life, love
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:16 01.12.06
On Human Universals...
I know that there is a list, supposedly generated by Anthropologists, of aspects of humans that are supposed to exist in all cultures across the world. However I cannot find the list online. Can anyone help me with this? I think it might be the basis for a good conversation about universalism and consctructivism in the understanding of human identity.
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:30 29.11.06
Definition of a chav
Our knowledge-seeker, Rural Sav,
Would like to know what makes a chav.
Those who have spent time hereabouts
Can sort of guess how this turns out.
:: STARTED BY Joggy Yoghurt
:: 187 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:56 27.11.06
What is addiction? How do you recognize it?
What is a reasonable definition of addiction, including how to distinguish an addict from someone who simply enjoys XYZ harmful activity in a responsible manner? Is there a difference?
:: STARTED BY Pappa Cass
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:57 22.11.06
Concept Interrogation: Family Values
What are they? Are they necessarily Right-wing? Can there be left/liberal/progressive family values? How do they change in different times and places?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:16 22.11.06
Can two seemingly opposite cultural stances coexist?
cultural, culture, difference, coexist.
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:05 22.11.06
Generalisations, opinions and givens
Generalisations, generalizations, and the processing and presenting information in the form of.
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:45 20.11.06
Stranger in a Strange Land
What does it do to your head to live abroad? What shifts in behaviour and even thought occur when out of your national comfort zone?
:: STARTED BY COG
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:06 19.11.06
Where is the line?
Is there always a clear and identifiable line between what's funny, justified, understandable, and acceptable in language and communication? Whose line is it anyway?
:: STARTED BY paranoidwriter waves hello
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:45 16.11.06
From Blackpool to Outer Mongolia: the politics of tourism and holidays
Cultures and politics of tourism. Are all tourists evil? Why? What kind of tourisms might not be evil? What is 'tourist shame'? How do you document your holidays, and what are the politics of that documentation (through email, blogging, writing, flickr, photography, slideshows, etc)?
:: STARTED BY Disco is My Class War
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:35 14.11.06
Overcoming internalised oppression
How to liberate ourselves from the internalised component of systematic oppression? bell hooks, learning self-love, culture-creation.
:: STARTED BY aim for joviality
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:55 09.11.06
Is Paris Hilton a Simulacrum?
Baudrillard vs. Paris Hilton, with David Foster Wallace and Douglas Rushkoff thrown in the mix. Paris Hilton seems to take a lot of flack from "normies" for being famous without actually accomplishing anything. Is this really a problem? Are we not ready to accept that celebrity is no longer coupled to achievement? Paris as simulacrum of celebrity, and possibly a hologram.
:: STARTED BY Sensual Cobra
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:53 09.11.06
Depictions of violence as "sexy", "arousing" etc- what's going on here?
Taking my queue from the growth of Kill Bill style "sexy fighting" in culture, questions about sex and violence
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:51 01.11.06
Politics of white adoption of dreadlocks
Results of colonization, importance of hairstyles, commodification
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 77 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:48 30.10.06
The Gaze: looking and being looked at is not the same as being seen
"The concept of gaze is one that deals with how an audience views other people presented. This concept is extended in the framework of feminist theory." Veiling, hijab, sexual harrassment, dominant gaze/male gaze, adverts
:: STARTED BY XK
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:22 27.10.06
How do we feel about personal debt?
What are people’s attitudes to personal debt? Does it matter? Where does it end? How does it tie in to attitudes and activities in society? Is it actually just a great equaliser giving those with less greater access to what only those with more would once have had?
:: STARTED BY Tabitha Tickletooth
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:03 24.10.06
"Crazy chic:" pop culture making illness a fashion statement
Spurred by a Policy conversation, an inquiry about the societal fascination/repulsion relationship with mental illness.
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
:: 87 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:41 19.10.06
Pornography vs. Erotica vs. Art
where do you draw the lines? are there really lines to be drawn? is it possible for a work to discuss sex intelligently and meaningfully while still being arousing? a place to discuss the exploration of sexuality in literature, film, and art.
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:31 19.10.06
How Long Has The World Been Ending?
Apocalypsoluza, crisis over infinite cultures, is it just the death of the individual magnified to a social group level?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady in Her Haus
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:01 06.10.06
Value of Truth
Who cares if you're wrong?
:: STARTED BY Foust is SO authentic
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:07 03.10.06
The Catholic Mess - the ideological and practical issues of the modern Catholic Church
As a topical issue, what is the largest Christian church doing with itself? Is it a force for good, should it be a force for good, and what does it need to change to be etc.
:: STARTED BY A Haus of Minions
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:41 19.09.06
True transsexualism— authenticity and transness
true transsexuality, untrue transsexuality; who is authentically trans*?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:01 15.09.06
Identity. Uh. What is it GOOD for? (Say it again!)
A thread about identity (not ME, people! get with it!) and its uses, misuses, and abuses. Is it good to have "identity"? Why?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:48 13.09.06
Trans men/women and men/women are/are not the same
Yet another gender and gender variance thread. Are you tired of them yet? HAH! HAHAH! You FOOLS! I will NOT BE STOnyarghaghgetthemoffohgod
Keywords: transness, gender categories, gender variance, transgender, FTM, MTF, OMG, WTF
:: STARTED BY *
:: 187 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:52 12.09.06
False Images Of Oz (in British advertising and culture)
How people in the UK see Australia; see colonialism, racism, signifiers and signifieds.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 40 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:43 11.09.06
Concept Interrogation: Civil Liberties
When is it useful to talk about 'civil liberties'? And why?
:: STARTED BY nighthawk
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:09 06.09.06
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