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On_Culture, Iss 9 (2026)
ISSN 2366-4142 · International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture · 317 artikel di indeks
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Love, Later
Looking for new love in later life has become more common, less stigmatized, and less sidelined in mainstream and academic conversations. Higher life expectancy, a rising standard of living, and cultural shifts such as the liberalization of women’s gender roles have created a climate ripe for…
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Las Fiestas Against Displacement
The region of Cholula, comprising the municipalities of San Andrés Cholula and San Pedro Cholula in Puebla, Mexico, has experienced rapid urban expansion and increased real estate development in recent decades. This transformation has led to an intensification of processes of commodification and…
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Perrear hasta el piso or How to Dance Reggaetón in Germany
This auto-ethnographic _Perspective reflects on reggaetón music, its festive experience, and the cultural changes it has undergone in the Latin migrant context. Two years ago, a collective of Latin American DJs founded La Casa del Perreo in Germany. Since then, they have hosted reggaetón parties in…
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Re-enactments and the Politics of Remembrance
Forty years ago, on September 8th, 1985, Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta died after falling from the window of the 34th-floor Manhattan apartment she shared with her husband, the Minimalist artist Carl Andre. Andre was accused of murder but later acquitted in a highly publicized trial that split…
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Black Joy as Cultural Resistance
This _Perspective explores Black Joy as a mode of cultural resistance and collective self-representation through a critical engagement with the 2024 exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, held at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Framing celebration not as a passive emotion but…
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Coffee, Cocaine, and Roller Coasters
In Colombia, where histories of colonial dispossession, civil war, and narco terror resist resolution, the theme park has emerged as an unlikely instrument of national memory-making. At two of Colombia’s most visited theme parks, Parque del Café in Quindío and Hacienda Nápoles in Antioquia, this…
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Ancient Roman Columns, Eagles, Sciences, and Other Representations
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, the iconography and apparatus of dining on festive occasions—particularly the numerous elaborate centerpieces—served to narrate, enhance, and reiterate the occasion or aspects thereof. These functions, integral in shaping the participants’…
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Between Tulle and Tears
The question of appropriate clothing becomes especially significant on special occasions—particularly during rites of passage such as weddings. That the choice of a bridal gown is consistently at the center of attention is also reflected in diverse (social) media portrayals. The various levels of…
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Absolutist Celebration in Late Ancien Régimes
This _Essay aims to flesh out and systematize a series of reflections on the inversely proportional relationship between the eroding conceptual basis, in terms of legitimacy and sovereignty, of absolute rulership in the mid- to late eighteenth century, on the one hand, and the proliferation and…
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The Limits of Celebration
This _Essay challenges the taken-for-granted ‘celebratory paradigm’ that dominates scholarly understandings of national days. Drawing on comparative evidence from Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe, it argues that national days are frequently not occasions of unambiguous celebration but hybrid…
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Notes Towards an Aesthetics of Celebration
This _Essay explores how the notion of celebration can reveal some aspects of the social life of literature that are rarely considered in literary theory. Defining celebration as the production of a festive and appreciative event by gathering together, it is argued that literature can accordingly…
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“The (In)Visible Man”
The (In)Visible Man film is an artistic extension of my ongoing doctoral project: “Submission Is Power: Remasculinization in Contemporary Asian American Literature.” Through a blend of abstract dance and fragmented diaristic dialogues, the film explores the complex struggles faced by Asian American…
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Rethinking the Good Life: A Crip Critique of Hon Lai-chu’s Surrealist Short Stories
This _Article examines the intersection of disruption, disability, and ‘post-’ concepts in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protests. Sparked by opposition to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance amendment, these protests escalated into a broader resistance movement against the erosion of civil…
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Geopolitical Frames, Bold Lines: Online Global Solidarity and Mapping Russia’s War against Ukraine
In the _Essay, the author offers a reflective analysis and tracking of the needs, obstacles, and challenges of global solidarity for Ukraine, based on his work from 2022 to 2025 on building a popular rolling community “influencer feed” on the Twitter/X platform. At its height in July 2023, the…
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From Imagined Communities to Cultures of Collectivization: Collective Concepts between Praxeology and Theories on Schemata and Frames
This _Essay contributes to the issue of On Culture by asking how concepts like frame or schema could be used to analyze collectivity. It takes on a praxeological perspective which does not presuppose collectivities as given entities but as something that emerges from what we do: doing group…
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Disrupted (Post)identities: Memory, Place, and the Power of the ‘Post’
For a recent issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography, I was asked to write a response to an article that examined the use of the word ‘post’ as a heuristic to better understand places associated with ‘post’ ascriptions—in the case of the original article, post-apartheid…
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Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions. These are articulated in current biopolitics which are committed to life, care and humanitarian reason (Frame 1: Life). At the same time…
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Winning Time and Losing Frames: Clashing Formats in the Post-Archive
Marked by warring aspect ratios, resolutions, and frame rates, HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023) chronicles the L.A. Lakers basketball team in the 1980s. Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht’s series proves from the outset that much more than nostalgia is at stake in their…
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Reframing the Dove, the Rifle, and the Faces: Débora Arango’s Gift to Álvaro Uribe
Débora Arango is considered by critics to be an outstanding artist, both in her use of painting as political denunciation, and for being a woman who used her art to challenge gender roles and the conservative values of her time. However, before her death and during the office of Álvaro Uribe Vélez…