'Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship. The contributors argue that the humanities can regain their relevance for society, pose new questions and provide fresh answers, while maintaining their core values: critical reflection, historical consciousness and analytical distance.' - from publisher's website
The essays in this volume come out of 'Transformations in Art and Culture', a research programme initiated in 2002 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Author biographies are included.
Onsite
English
2013
250
9789089644749
1
anthology
Introduction - Judith THISSEN
Part I: Media Cities
Mediacity: On the Discontinuous Continuity of the Urban Public Sphere - René BOOMKENS
Orkontros: Brazilian Migrants, Social Network Sites and the European City - Martijn OOSTERBAAN
Imagining the City: The Difference that Art Makes - Judith VEGA
Body Movies: The City as Interface - Martijn DE WAAL
Part II: The Ludic Turn
Homo Ludens 2.0: Play, Media and Identity - Valerie FRISSEN, Jos DE MUL, Joost RAESSENS
Digital Cartographies as Playful Practices - Sybille LAMMES
From Gengsi to Gaul: Mobile Media and Playful Identities in Jakarta - Michiel DE LANGE
Transformations in Perception and Participation: Digital Games - Renée VAN DE VALL
Machinima: Moving on the Edges of Rules and Fiction - René GLAS
Part III: Thinking Analogue
Sound Technologies and Cultural Practices: How Analogies Make Us Listen to Transformations in Art and Culture - Karin BIJSTERVELD, José VAN DIJCK, Annelies JACOBS, Bas JANSEN
The Case of ccMixter: Credit-Giving within a Communal Online Remixing Practice - Bas JANSEN
Part IV: Hybrid Practices
On the Need for Cooperation between Art and Science - Robert ZWIJNENBERG
Laboratory on the Move in Retrospect - NI Haifeng, 倪海峰, Kitty ZIJLMANS
Embedded in the Dutch Art World - Judith THISSEN
Roots and the Production of Heritage - Alex VAN STIPRIAAN
How to Succeed in Art and Science: The Observatory Observed - Geert SOMSEN, Jeroen WERNER
Part V: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Introduction
Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg - Marcel TEN HOOVEN
Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Art and Humanities Research
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