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The Urban Square: Remediating Public Space
Get PDFEmerging technologies challenge the conceptualization of contemporary urban public space, both in where it is located and of what it consists. With the advent of the digital medium and the internet, the public realm is expanded, dispersed and reconnected in new ways. At the same time, technologies profoundly impact the realization of apparently conventional public spaces, as architects' design process and building materials undergo technological renovations, staged in the digital medium. This paper explores how the public square can be reconceptualized as a place of convergence of the digital and physical domains
On the Production and Maintenance of Discursive Power: Cultural Policy Beyond the Nation-State
Get PDFContrary to current academic thinking, I argue that cultural policy is not in decline but has simply changed form. The ubiquity and vitality of such policies have been obscured from our vision because we do not actually know what we are looking for. This is the case because we have never established a theoretically informed definition of cultural policy. I offer such a definition here, and suggest that once such an optic is mobilized cultural policy reappears as an essential, vital, ever-present, contentious, and powerful postmodern social phenomenon. It is mobilized locally, nationally, and internationally through and around markets by agents who wish to produce, contest, or maintain fields of discursive power
Looking Beneath the Skin: Reconfiguring Trauma and Sexuality
Get PDFSince the New Queer Cinema explosion, the style and content of Gregg Araki's films have changed in seemingly drastic ways. However, my paper argues that his films, although more mature, are just as radical today as they were in the beginning of his career. Mysterious Skin is a controversial film that looks at early childhood sexuality and its relationship to teenage sexual development. I argue that Araki looks at contemporary queer life in all its complexity and demonstrates that both sexuality and sexual development are far too complicated to quantify and categorize
Racial Ideology and Discourse in the NBA: Ron Artest and the Construction of Black Bodies by White America
Get PDFThis paper examines white spectatorship of the black athlete's body through an analysis of NBA basketball player Ron Artest's 2004 suspension. In examining the discourse surrounding the event, there emerges a covert ideology of simultaneous idealization and denigration of black athletes. While most in the sports world would claim to be colour-blind when evaluating talent or watching a game, the discourse surrounding Artest and the NBA in general seems to suggest that the invisible lens of white superiority shapes the perceptions of sports fans when viewing a predominantly black sport such as professional basketball
Virtual Identity: Applying Narrative Theory to Online Character Development
Get PDFThis paper will explore the realm of virtual identity within the context of the online virtual world, Second Life. The creation of virtual identities involves the complex process of constructing an online self-presentation. With the prevalence of online forums and virtual reality, ordinary people are crafting identities online and digressing from their actual identities in real life. In order to explain this phenomenon, I draw on narrative theory's conceptualization of character in order to understand how people craft online identities