If you’re interested in understanding why American culture is blowing in the wind, you need to be reading Derek on Substack. 🎯🔥

#culture #culturaltheory #democracy #liberalism #nokings

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Surface as method: a new framework for materials, humans and technology How do we make sense of a world where the boundaries between materials and technology, human and nonhuman, physical and digital are increasingly blurred? This introduction proposes that the surface is...

‘Surface as method: a new framework for thinking materials, humans, and technology’ link.growkudos.com/1eyxfdu3ocg
#Surface #NewMaterialism #MaterialCulture #CulturalTheory
Author accepted manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#JuniorProfessorship #CulturalTheory
The School of Culture and Society @leuphana.bsky.social invites applications for a W1 Professorship in "Cultural Theory". Application Deadline: 22 February 2026
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“Being a modern meant pretending to be someone else, to make a stage of all the world.”
— Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, p.270

#Modernity #UtopianStudies #CulturalTheory #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory #IntellectualHistory

LYRICAL DESOLATIONS Anatomies of Melancholia: Affliction, Hauntology and The Ecstatic. (IV)

LYRICAL DESOLATIONS, part 4: "Fortresses of Solitude". Melancholy and the practice of solitude. <Click Link >
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#hauntology #culturaltheory #sebald #philosophy #mediacriticism #artandculture #culture #art #writingcommunity #melancholy #saturn

LYRICAL DESOLATIONS Anatomies of Melancholia: Affliction, Hauntology and The Ecstatic. (III)

LYRICAL DESOLATIONS, part 3: "Ghost Exits". Mark Fisher, Hauntology, Joy Division et al. <Click Link > substack.com/@culturecave...
#markfisher #hauntology #culturaltheory #retrofuture #criticaltheory #philosophy #mediacriticism #artandculture #societyandculture #art #writingcommunity

Pop ≠ Popularity: Erfolg im Zeitalter der algorithmischen Öffentlichkeit | by Harald Surkemper | Nov, 2025 | Medium Erfolg im Zeitalter der algorithmischen Öffentlichkeit

Früher war Pop eine kollektive Erfahrung – alle sahen dasselbe.
Heute ist Pop algorithmische Sichtbarkeit – viele sehen Varianten, personalisiert und datengesteuert.
Was bedeutet das für Autorschaft und digitale Kunst?

medium.com/@hsurkemper/...
#DigitalArt #AlgorithmicCulture #CulturalTheory

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I'm not sure that I see the author's premise "What is wrong with hauntology?" sucessfully brought to a clear conclusion. But, I am generally curious to see folks attempt to seriously engage with the concept of "hauntology" and Mark Fisher's writings.

Perhaps the article is too brief to really […]

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"Rheoplegma" doesn’t just stay in the realm of abstract philosophy. It bridges disciplines, offering new ontological perspectives on e.g. quantum physics, epigenetics, and cultural studies.
#Interdisciplinary #ScienceAndPhilosophy #CulturalTheory

Opportunity to join the editorial team of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Could you be the next editor of our journal, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory?
@oupacademic.bsky.social #criticaltheory #culturaltheory #literarytheory

Take a look and apply: englishassociation.ac.uk/opportunity-...

Dancing with Ghosts Field Observations from the Backrooms

Lately I've been thinkin of the backrooms to reality. Y'know, where the dreams of modernity go to die?

Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta

#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog

Just picked up an old copy of John Storey’s Cultural Theory & Popular Culture: A Reader for £4. Dated, sure, but still a vital map for tracing how we read the signs. Anyone else revisiting theory with fresh eyes?

#PopCultureStudies #CulturalTheory #LitCrit #PoetsOfBluesky #BooksOfBluesky

The Eye of the Machine. On Visual Culture in the Age of… | by Harald Surkemper | May, 2025 | Medium On Visual Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

New essay:
🧠👁️ The Eye of the Machine
On visual culture in the age of AI.

What happens when machines see before we do?
I explore how algorithmic perception shapes our images, memories, and meanings.

medium.com/@hsurkemper/...
#AI #VisualCulture #DigitalAesthetics #PostDigital #CulturalTheory

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How can we conceptually map cultural phenomena?
“Techno-Concepts for the Cultural Field” explores n-dimensional space as a framework for cultural constellations—linking art, media & tech theory in novel ways.
📖 Open Access] [https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/11/96
#DigitalHumanities […]

#joekekuku #steelguitar #wchandy #fatheroftheblues #railways #kurtweill #bertoltbrecht #culturaltheory #musichistory
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Theme This year’s lab, Anthropo-scenes , will be an experiment in ecodramaturgy , bringing together speculative ethnography, Black geographies, decolonial thought, landscape architecture, and...

Sharing for friends who changed my life in 2019.

The Pelion Summer Lab for #CulturalTheory and #ExperimentalHumanities is back—June 27–July 7 in Neochori 🇬🇷
Theme: Anthropo-scenes
Turning from technocracy toward ecodramaturgy, decolonial thought & more.
Apply here 👇
#PSL2025 @pprobonas.bsky.social

VeDecKy | Substack Queer redneck with four cats. BLM. No human is illegal. Malcontent.

Do you like cultural theory and cuss words? Informed and insightful media analysis and innuendo? Monsters? Rejects?
You might be a Mal/Content. substack.com/@vedecky?r=5...
You better read and subscribe to find out for sure. #culturaltheory #monsters #resistance #malcontent

" the narrative is what fucks the bitches up ... "
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opera theory
#photofunnies #ozarksoperabuffa #comic #operaoftheozarks #eurekasprings
#postexistentialismtheopera2025
#punk #culturaltheory

A cat looking shocked while reading "How to philosophize with a hammer and sickle" by Jonas Ceika (Norwegian author and cultural theorist)

#jonascieka #communism #commie #marxism #philosophy #culturaltheory #deconstruction #abolitionist #resist #deconstruct

Did you know the concept of 'play' isn’t child's play? Philosophers like Schiller and Huizinga argued it’s foundational to culture and human creativity, sparking debates on art and freedom. (Q6761532) #PhilosophyOfPlay #CulturalTheory

"Identity politics is a problem" – Sean Bw Parker Culture Crack · Episode

"Culture is basically dictated by the media." – Sean Bw Parker.

Listen to the full episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/3mgg...

#culturaltheory #podcast #media #identitypolitics #cancelculture

"Do Objects Party Alone?" - Professor Dorothee Kimmich discusses the curious life of objects in #ModernLiterature. What if things around us could speak or live? Her #research rethinks the boundary between nature and culture, material and spirit. 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/en/269679 #Podcast #CulturalTheory

Did you know that unilineal evolution is an obsolete anthropological theory that Western European-American culture is considered the pinnacle of social evolution in a single line from the most primitive to most civilized? (Q1382550) #anthropology #culturaltheory

Announcements | Martial Arts Studies Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts s...

Call for Papers for a special issue of Martial Arts Studies, focusing on theory development within the field. #cfp #martialartsstudies #culturaltheory
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
17/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #FredricJameson #LateCapitalism #PostModernism #MarxistTheory #CulturalTheory

Architectures of syntopia: An interdisciplinary speculative model for constructions with insect-infested wood | TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis

Exploring beetle infestation of spruce trees through the interwoven lenses of #MaterialsScience, #CulturalTheory, & #ComputationalDesign to develop spatial structures for humans &non-humans that are rooted in and emerge from their specific environments

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Best philosophers, theorists, scholars, writers of the interface between hand and tool / technology and all that that relation generates? #philosophy #theory #technology #technics #phenomenology #affect #culturaltheory

Whatever The rise of Oasis, intertwined with the cultural shifts of the 1990s, reveals much about the era's obsession with image, spectacle, and the complex legacy left in its wake. By Simon Pearson

#OasisReunion #Politics #Music #CulturalTheory #Anti*CapitalistResistance