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By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... Berlin Wall Practical Jokes Gerd Gigerenzer Erving Goffman The Crystal World Agatha Christie ...
Book Chapter

By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy Siegfried Kracauer ...
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374459-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... This chapter takes up the crisis of the work of art in the epoch of social systems from another side.. The crisis of the art work now has become a way of posing the problem of action and intention in autotropic (self-turned) systems. The art work now resembles a practical joke: a staging...
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374459-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy...
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... This chapter takes up the crisis of the work of art in the epoch of social systems from another side.. The crisis of the art work now has become a way of posing the problem of action and intention in autotropic (self-turned) systems. The art work now resembles a practical joke: a staging...
Book Chapter

By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. The Daily Planet Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy Siegfried Kracauer Suspense Anthropotechnics Social Systems Patricia...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027812-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2781-2
... Chapter 2 examines digital humor practices on the Chinese internet during SARS and argues for the community-building and sociality-affirming functions of nonpolitics-driven epidemic humor. The chapter explores how epidemic humor was pervasive across both personal digitized networks and public...
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374015-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7401-5
... to improvisation was seen as a rejection of the professional craft tradition of the French film industry and its unions. It was received, in critical quarters, as a filmmaking practice marked by “in jokes” and the representation of intimate relationships between improvising performers from which audiences were...
Published: 17 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375784-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7578-4
... subject, and in the objects of jokes in the United States. It uses this analysis to discuss why minstrelsy is still practiced today, and why in a supposedly postracial era in the United States the donning of blackface, both professionally and by amateurs, has actually increased. The resurgence...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... Wencai’s Manor House Museum stands the newly built Jianchuan Museum Cluster. Designed to house China’s largest collection of Cultural Revolution memorabilia, the Jianchuan Museum Cluster was, like the plaque in Göttingen, built on a curatorial practice of abstraction, habitualization, and distanciation...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... to their revolutionary curatorial practice, this chapter tracks the progress of the museum as it is transformed from a rural landlord manor house into a revolutionary machine designed to channel affective energy toward a revolutionary political intensity. With the RCC as its centerpiece, this machine produced...
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7401-5
... Vague. A turn to improvisation was seen as a rejection of the professional craft tradition of the French film industry and its unions. It was received, in critical quarters, as a filmmaking practice marked by “in jokes” and the representation of intimate relationships between improvising performers from...