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(Re-)framing the Homeless Experience: Exploring Homeless Lives and Identities on TikTok and YouTube
Full text linkDespite the ongoing prevalence of homelessness throughout the world, the experience remains highly stigmatized. Presentations of homelessness in traditional media tend to render subjects faceless, nameless, static, and passive, dehumanizing them in the process. In response to this presentation, some homeless individuals are using social media to share their lives and experiences. This _Article examines the social media posts of two young homeless women. It explores their experience and presentation of homelessness in their daily videos on TikTok and YouTube. Acting as a confessional and relational diary online, posting on social media allows these women to challenge existing perceptions and narratives about homelessness by showing their authentic day-to-day experience of it. By sharing their lives online, these women offer their viewers a deeply intimate, vulnerable, and relational window into the experience of homelessness, which challenges the faceless, nameless and largely invisible experience depicted in traditional media. They achieve this by sharing their routines of self-care and care for others; by participating in public space and community; and by performing gratitude, selflessness, hard work, and humility. Sharing their experience of homelessness on social media enables these women to craft a self-presentation, framing themselves as more-than-homeless
“The (In)Visible Man”: Renegotiating Asian American Masculinities in the 21st Century
Full text linkThe (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 men, whose masculinities have long been obscured by historical stereotypes that render them effeminate and submissive. It also visually captures Asian American men’s process of resistance to make visible and redefine their gender identities, challenging the pervasive invisibility of their masculinities. The film poses critical questions about certain aspects of the Asian American male identity such as power dynamics, body image, queerness and sexualities, as well as the relationship between masculinities and nature. Through an intersectional lens, the film delves into the intricate intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power within Asian American masculinities, calling for a more nuanced understanding of gender dynamics and cultural identities
“Cultures of Dissent”: A Successful Introduction to the Current World of Contradiction
Full text linkDer Sammelband Widerspruchs-Kulturen. Medien, Praktiken und Räume des Widersprechens bietet eine interdisziplinäre Analyse zeitgenössischer Widerspruchspraktiken. In drei Sektionen beleuchten die Autor_innen gesellschaftliche, künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Widerspruch als Praxis. Trotz kleinerer Unschärfen bietet der Band eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung mit normativen Spannungen und ist besonders für junge Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftler_innen bereichernd.The edited volume Widerspruchs-Kulturen: Medien, Praktiken und Räume des Widersprechens offers an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary practices of contradiction. In three sections, the authors examine social, artistic and academic perspectives on contradiction as a practice. Despite some minor ambiguities, the volume offers a differentiated examination of normative tensions and is particularly enriching for young cultural and social scientists
Stickering through Grief: Subverting Normative Practices of Mourning and Memorial
Full text linkFollowing the death of my close friend and artistic mentor Justin in 2021, my friends and I, connected by grief, embarked on a collective stickering project using Justin’s graffiti tag. This initiative, spanning across North America and Europe, was conceived as a tribute to honour Justin’s memory by occupying space and mapping our collective loss. The act of stickering emerged as a powerful medium for expressing collective grief, offering a form of affective mapping and anti-temporal mourning. This paper analyzes the stickering project to reveal how creative practices can function as a form of witnessing and transformation. It highlights the ways in which graffiti\u27s autobiographical nature can evolve into a communal practice outside of its common subculture, pushing against the conventional cultural contexts within which graffiti typically operates. My analysis of this project draws on theoretical frameworks such as affective mapping, relationality, and testimony as developed by scholars including Dominick LaCapra, Kelly Oliver, Judith Butler, Leigh Gilmore, and Shelley Hornstein. Through this lens, the paper examines how the stickering project navigates the dynamic interplay between past and present, space and time, embodied experiences, and empirical knowledge. I attempt to further explore this anti-temporal dimension through the notion of ‘grief-time,’ modelled after ‘queer-time,’ as articulated by Jack Halberstam and Carolyn Dinshaw. This paper considers the transient nature of both graffiti and grief, underscoring the stickering project’s role in confronting and negotiating the temporal aspects of mourning. It demonstrates how artistic and communal expressions can offer new insights into the processes of memory-making, creating an active practice of remembrance. This exploration of our collective endeavor underscores the transformative potential of creative practices in the face of loss and the complex ways in which they interact with the cultural and temporal dimensions of human experience
Framed Slowness and the Ecological Value of Multiperspectivity
Full text linkDrawing on econarratological insights, this article examines the ecological potential of multiperspective narratives by proposing the concept of “framed slowness,” that is, a slow way of experiencing narrative elicited by the use of framing devices. By examining how framing strategies—such as segmentivity, paratextual framing, coordination of perspectives, and rereading—can decelerate the reading experience, this article challenges the typical association of multiperspective narratives with fast-paced, plot-driven storytelling. Such framing strategies can disrupt teleology and narrative progression, thus directing readers’ attention on the multilayered entanglement of character perspectives. I suggest that “character-driven” examples of multiperspectivity are more conducive to slowness, since the juxtaposition of perspectives is not motivated solely by the dynamics of the plot. In the final section, I turn to Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions as an experimental multiperspective novel employing the four framing strategies for slowness I discuss throughout the article. Through the adoption of a complex interplay of material and internal framing strategies, Only Revolutions offers insights into the entanglement of a human love story and planetary, more-than-human temporalities. This framing of slowness positions multiperspectivity as a crucial narrative strategy vis-à-vis ecological issues
Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration
Full text linkThe paper 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 however, current biopolitics produce death zones. Therefore, the current politics in the Mediterranean are framed by what, following Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, Roberto Esposito calls thanapolitics and Achille Mbembe necropolitics (Frame 2: Death). These tense, overlapping and intertwined framings of migration and the discursive networks also refer to legal norms and norm-setting, the law and its violence, the right to life and the limits of current humanitarian law and Human Rights (Frame 3: Law)
Durch die Linse der Nostalgie: Neue Sichtweisen auf Erinnerung und Trauma
Full text linkThe edited volume Trauma and Nostalgia: Practices in Memory and Identity explores the relations between trauma, nostalgia, and memory construction across diverse cultural and historical contexts. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines how nostalgia shapes collective identities and influences contemporary perceptions. Case studies, encompassing various localities in Spain, Italy, the US, and Afghanistan, provide valuable insights. As a great practical contribution to memory studies, the book enriches the field with new case studies.Der Sammelband Trauma and Nostalgia: Practices in Memory and Identity erforscht die Beziehungen zwischen Trauma, Nostalgie und Gedächtniskonstruktion in diversen kulturellen und historischen Kontexten. Mittels interdisziplinärer Perspektiven wird untersucht, wie Nostalgie kollektive Identitäten formt und zeitgenössische Wahrnehmungen beeinflusst. Fallstudien, die verschiedene Orte in Spanien, Italien, den USA und Afghanistan umfassen, bieten wertvolle Einblicke. Das Buch ist ein praktischer Beitrag zur Gedächtnisforschung und bereichert das Feld um neue Fallstudien
Winning Time and Losing Frames: Clashing Formats in the Post-Archive
Full text linkMarked 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 television series, interrupting the opening by dissolving it into digital and analog static. Framed by technologic white noise, the opening sequence proposes it is not the Lakers, but the underlying clashes of film formats that lie at the show’s core. Grappling with the multitrack possibilities in film, it is in fluctuating image frames that the seam between visual technologies is articulated. While the inconstancy of the frame highlights the image’s ability to masquerade as historical footage, it also pulls focus away from the narrative and towards the material level of the show. The waning significance of the frame in the digital age, as discussed by Vivian Sobchack, thus enacts the flexibility and interactivity common in screens today, while also highlighting that the very material gap between the image and its border that refuses to align with digital cinema practices
From Imagined Communities to Cultures of Collectivization: Collective Concepts between Praxeology and Theories on Schemata and Frames
Full text linkThis _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, family, gender, nation. Part of these practices is an implicit and incorporated understanding or knowledge (i.e., culture) what it is that we are doing, how to collectivize and what for. These collectivization cultures—a conceptual extension of Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities—can be analyzed as consisting of frames or schemata. The _Essay draws on cognitive theories to distinguish collectivization scripts (e.g., frames of assembling, having dinner together) and collectivization themes (e.g., stereotypes, models of families, enterprises, nations). These again are interrelated, as are practices and practitioners, who carry collectivization experiences from one practice to another and frame nations as extended families or work teams as friendship circles
Tagungsbericht zu “Spaces of Peripheralization: Extractivism, Pollution and Environmental Future in Southeastern Europe”
No full textThe entanglements of environmental degradation, extractivist practices, and spatial marginalization have become central to discussions on ecological justice particularly within the context of the ‘Global South.’ In an attempt to further ‘globalize’ the application potential of the extractivist concept, Research Area 7: Global Studies and Politics of Space at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) organized the one-day event “Spaces of Peripheralization: Extractivism, Pollution and Environmental Future in Southeastern Europe,” held on 22 May 2025, at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Organized by Ivana Dinić, Zekiye Gürün-Ücem, and Anna Ivanova in cooperation with the Chair of Southeast European History at JLU, the event brought together academic, visual, and activist perspectives to examine how ecological injustice in Southeastern Europe is shaped by legacies of state socialism, capitalist transformation, and uneven integration into European political and economic structures. Through a workshop, keynote lecture, and photography exhibition, the conference explored the lived effects of peripheralization, including the disproportionate distribution of environmental harm, the persistence of extractivist infrastructure, and the gap between environmental policy and local realities. By focusing on Southeastern Europe as a site of both historical rupture and ongoing ecological vulnerability, the event contributed to broader debates on sustainability, infrastructural violence, and the spatial inequalities within Europe.