The Memetic Evolution of Latin American Architectural Design Culture by İlknur Akıner, İbrahim Yitmen, Muhammed Ernur Akıner, Nurdan Akıner

“…This paper nevertheless puts together architecture and semiology by considering key twentieth century philosophers and cultural theorist methodologies. Cultural theorist and analyst Roland Barthes was the first person to ask architects to examine the possibility of bringing semiology and architectural theory together. …”
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Ominous: Playfulness and emergence in a performance for biophysical music by Marco Donnarumma

“…This work posits that a prominent quality of the body physiology is its emergence. Developed by cultural theorist Brian Massumi, the notion of bodily emergence is useful to inform playfulness in musical performance for it can be used to understand a performer's body as being continuously changed by physiological and autonomic processes. …”
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Identity among Turkish Shi’is: An Ethnographic Study by Mehmet Ali Sevgi

“…In this context, cultural theorist Stuart Hall explains identity as a never-ending construction, a process never completed—always in progress. …”
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New stories from the Mabinogion and Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi: Texts, Narratives and Tradition1 by Janoušek Hynek Daniel

“…The article relies on Dutch cultural theorist Mieke Bal’s structuralist theory of narrative, on Welsh philologist Sioned Davies’s analyses of the medieval tales, and on Slovak literary scholar Anton Popovič’s view of tradition in terms of prototexts and metatexts. …”
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Oto Bihalji-Merin and the Concept of the “Naïve” in the 1950s. Bridging Socialist Realism and Non-Figurative Art by Tanja Zimmermann

“…After the war, he became the most important cultural theorist and administrator in Tito’s Yugoslavia. …”
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Engaging with the Partition Canon: Gastro-political narratives in Anchita Ghatak’s translation of Sunanda Sikdar’s Dayamoyeer Katha into A Life Long Ago by Namrata Chowdhury

“…In this light, the paper seeks to challenge the ‘canon’ in the Partition memory as cultural theorist Jan Assmann would say, and attempt to reorient the narrative of the gendered experience of the Partition to produce the gastro-political sites of intersection. …”
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Aby Warburg: The Collective Memory as a Medium for Art by Gabriel Badea

“…In this paper, I intend to study the contribution of Aby Warburg, a cultural theorist and an art historian, especially his concern with the relations between memory and history, relations that have been theorized in the late 20th century, but which Warburg anticipated, to a certain degree. …”
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Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema by James L. Smith, Steve Mentz

“…If the blue humanities is to follow the seminal postcolonial scholarship of Tongan and Fijian cultural theorist Epeli Hau’ofa by exploring a counter-hegemonic narrative in scholarly treatment of the global oceans, then how can it respond with respect? …”
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Brandon is a Network Not a Name: Fictocriticism & the Cyberfeminist Art of Shu Lea Cheang by Zach Pearl

“…The cyberfeminist art practice of Shu Lea Cheang evinces a particular relation of generative complicity with the art object—what Canadian cultural theorist Jeanne Randolph referred to as 'the amenable object' (1983). …”
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Makna dan Fungsi Simbolik Gunungan Garebeg Maulud Kraton Surakarta (Kajian Aspek Kesenirupaan): by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…The data have have been collected by examining some historicalliterature, from various references and actual resources such as Sentana Dalem and Abdi Dalem (common occupations in Surakarta Palace Dinasty), important figure in religion, cultural theorist, intellectuals, as well as the general society. …”

Historicizing psychedelics: counterculture, renaissance, and the neoliberal matrix by Mateo Sanchez Petrement

“…In this essay, I would like to suggest that the historical transition of psychedelics from an association with counterculture to becoming part of the mainstream is related to the rise of what late cultural theorist Mark Fisher termed “capitalist realism”—the notion that there is no alternative form of social organization and, as such, capitalism simply is reality. …”
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'J.I. introduces very interesting concepts, but…': From the academic biography of J.I. Ioffe in the late 1930s by V.G. Ananiev

“…An episode from the academic life of Jeremiah Isaevich Ioffe, an outstanding Russian art historian and cultural theorist, related to the criticism of his book “Music of the Soviet Cinema” (1938–1939) was discussed. …”
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Burnout market feminism: urban Chinese businesswomen in the internet age by Tang, L

“…Burnout market feminism is a critical theoretical combination of Chinese feminist Li Xiaojiang’s market feminism and Korean-German cultural theorist Han Byung-Chul’s Burnout Society. While Li's market feminism contributes the Chinese local perspective with empowerment and contexts at its centre to allow gendered subjectivities and solidarity to burgeon from the market, Han warns us that the Internet age has made us voluntarily self-exploit and burn out. …”

The fluid and transcultural self: renegotiating the East Asian female identity in The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho by Syamsina Zahurin Shamsuddin, Ida Baizura Bahar

“…Using the concepts of identity fluidity as proposed by the sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall (2011) and his views on the decentring of the individual, the paper aims to investigate how the three concepts of the enlightenment subject, the sociological subject and the postmodern subject interact with Arianna Dagnino’s (2015) concept of transculture/ality, or intermingling of cultures, in The Clay Marble through Dara’s practice of culture in Cambodian society and how she is decentred as her identity evolves. …”
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Transformational texts: genre, discourse and subjectivity in the self-help book by Collingsworth, Jean

“…The research concludes that the selfhelp book is a paradoxical phenomenon for the cultural theorist because it asserts the survival of personal agency in the postmodern episteme which has seen the discrediting of grand narratives and the decentring of the human subject. …”
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Subgenres as a sign of socio-cultural change: the case of men's magazines' problem pages in the UK by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo

“…Leaving aside any differentiation between 'high' and 'popular culture', this notion is herein taken from a contemporary cultural studies perspective integrating traditional anthropological approaches to the concept with a more recent sociological emphasis. As cultural theorist Stuart Hall stresses, "the word 'culture' is used to refer to whatever is distinctive about the 'way of life' of a people, community, nation or social group. [...] …”
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface by Giannakopoulou Karamouzi, Iris.

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Performative autobiography as design attitude : the Merz-World of Kurt Schwitters by Vardouli, Rodanthi, Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948

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21A.216J / SP.622J / WGS.622J Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?, Spring 2005 by James, Erica

“…It discusses critiques of the bio-medical tradition from anthropological, feminist, legal, religious, and cross-cultural theorists.…”
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“Chameleonization” in the Folds of Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Cross-Cultural Qualitative Fieldwork by Yuanyuan Dai

“…Subsequently, this work deciphers these paradoxes with Hofstede's cultural dimension theory as a main analytical framework, supplemented by theories from cultural theorists in the two cultures. These paradoxes can be resolved through a chameleonization process through which researchers attune to a postmodern cross-culturalness by navigating the “folds of culture,” as characterized by their cross-cultural qualitative fields. …”
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