Transcultural Experiments
Published on 30. November 1999
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-333-80217-5 (ISBN)
Description
Processes of globalization have had a profound impact on cultural production and dissemination, both intra and cross culturally. The dissemination of cultures on a global scale has led to multiple and complex effects, among them the formation of radical new modes of cultural interaction, transcultural flows, and hybridized knowledges; forms not easily understandable in terms of traditional models of discrete national or ethnic cultures/subcultures. This book develops new scholarly and creative strategies out of this intersection of cultural traditions, specifically in Russia and the United States. It defines and enacts a transcultural method as an alternative to the legacies of cultural divisions and hegemony that have dominated both Western and Second Worlds. The book introduces a system of original concepts and genres of writing that will help in mapping 21st century global culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 146 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80217-5 (9780333802175)
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Additional editions
E. Berry | M. Epstein
Transcultural Experiments
Russian and American Models of Creative Communication
Book
11/1999
Palgrave MacMillan
€53.49
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Content
Part 1 History: introducing culturology - major ideas and thinkers; the laboratory of contemporary culture - improvisational practice and transcultural consciousness; postmodern avant gardes and cultural re-invention. Part 2 Theory: "Definitions"; transculture in the context of contemporary critical theories; difference and interference; transculture and society; nomadic desires and transcultural becomings; "Infinitions"; how does newness enter the postmodern world?; the permanence of newness and spaces for difference; from history to geography potentiation and virtuality; ethics and imagination - the transcultural imaginary. Part 3 On practice: on genres; essay catalogue collective improvisations; sample improvisations; nomads at home - improvisation in the academy; InteLnet, Web projects and journals in the humanities; hyperauthorship poetry as a state of being; interactive book of books; the lawlessness of genres. Conclusion - inconclusive dialogue.