📚 “The Future of Cultural Analysis: A Critical Inquiry” edited by Murat Aydemir, Aylin Kuryel, and Noa Roei explores cultural analysis as a dynamic practice. Featuring interdisciplinary insights, it redefines object-centered critique and addresses sociopolitical impact through innovative methodologies.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048559800/html
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#CulturalAnalysis #CriticalInquiry #InterdisciplinaryResearch

The Future of Cultural Analysis

Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdisciplinarity, political urgency, a heuristic use of concepts, the detailed analysis of objects of culture, and an awareness of the scholar’s situatedness in the present. But is the practice still suited to the spiraling of social, political, and environmental crises that mark our time? Drawing on experiences in research, teaching, activism, and the creative arts, contributors explore what cultural analysis was back then, what it is now, and what it may be by 2034. In a shifting conjuncture, contributors strike notes of discomfort, defiance, and irony—as well as a renewed sense of urgency and care.

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"Erasing History": Yale Prof. Jason Stanley on Why Fascists Attack Education & Critical Inquiry

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Critical Inquiry: A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian

"What precisely was meant by Sher-Gil's self-conscious self-placement into the body of a Tahitian nude? How could art
history have missed this painting, so deliberate a citation of art-historical precedent?"

#CriticalInquiry #SherGil #ArtHistory #Art #Image #Academicchatter #Tahitian #PaulGauguin #History #Museum #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #Gauguin #Image #SelfPortrait #Photograph ❤️

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/659356?fbclid=IwAR139zbXPJswBxHrCGAOXe5G6984VBMtSc_l06O77h3ue8Zb75zQZyEPjmg&journalCode=ci

Backyard #NeRF material experimentation. I’ve been exploring image generation with NeRFs and the aesthetic and #worldBuilding possibilities of the partly constructed, partly recognised world on the edges of the generated environment. #machineLearning #materialPractice #designResearch #speculativeDesign #criticalInquiry

cf: https://andrewburrell.net/blog/nerf-aesthetics

Andrew Burrell | NeRF aesthetics

The SHErobots exhibition at Tin Sheds in Sydney is well worth a visit. Lots of critical engagement through #materialPractice, #designResearch, #speculativeDesign and #criticalInquiry

Pictured: Elena Knox’s 2014 “Pathetic Fallacy” - a very human reflection on potential, perceived or imagined #moreThanHuman relationships.