.... But the deconstructive thrust of the third meaning of Kulturtechnik is not only that cultural techniques generate the concepts by which they are subsequently overshadowed (and that, therefore, have to be teased out by careful analysis). They are also involved in the conceptualization and ontologization of the domains...

... engagement with the relationship between epistemological cultures and cultural ontologies on the one hand, and political institutions on the other, with a particular focus on different “species” of beings (human, nonhuman animal, plant, and so on). It also sets out the methodological and representational...

... : 4) calls “a contrapuntal potential in black thought and expressive cultures with regard to the human-animal distinction.” In recent years, plant studies has incorporated important philosophical and moral discussions of personhood, sentience, rights, and ontology, but more work needs...

... studies—that have transformed the modes of knowledge production within the academic humanities and beyond. They are framed qualitatively by the neomaterialist, vital philosophy proposed by Gilles Deleuze’s Spinozism, based on the concepts of monism, radical immanence, and relational ontology...

... Association—as they contest the imperative to produce cultural/knowledge representations on behalf of the present. Drawing on Michel Foucault's identification of the political practice of parrēsia and its relationship to ontologies of veridiction, I argue that the institutionalization of the author stabilizes...

... describes key ontological aspects of more-than-human relationships within traditional territories. First, social practices and relationships (e.g., “ways of working,” “cultural and religious celebrations,” “traditional authorities,” and “social and family relations”) do not simply unfold in territory...

... in the accommodation of a religious sensibility to a secular culture, and its peculiar intellectual pathos” (21). In Signs and Meaning in the Cinema , Michelson's esteemed contemporary, Peter Wollen ([1969] 1998 : 83), made an enduring addition to the dominant interpretation of Bazin by conflating his ontology...

... the law. That is, political theorists, environmental philosophers, and others encounter various culturally bound ontological certainties: ontological certainties that have their roots deeply embedded in Western philosophy; ontological certainties, derived from the Anglo-European philosophical tradition...

..., with the editors sitting on the conference's committee. Therefore, many of the book's interventions are situated in a broad and well-established literature that seeks to bring art and cultural artifacts into dialogue with posthumanist thought, developing insights pertaining to the ethical and political dimensions...

... is a philosopher whose primary concern is with the ontological and epistemological effects of what it refers to as “technological illumination” and how the latter stands in stark contrast with those traditional ideas of (self/divine) illumination that were the basis of a traditional urbanity and the point...

... cultural politics, this book serves as an innovative ethnographic account that critically engages with the burgeoning ecological and ontological turn within the field of anthropology. Its narrative not only enhances our comprehension of the violence inflicted on Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities...

... to a number of patterns of different cultural models of politics. Against the possible critique of the authors’ “cultural relativistism,” their approach claims to have universal scope. Universality, however, does not consist in an a priori given and one-sided ontology, which reduces people to agents who...

... Gehlen’s efforts – developed a sufficiently abstract concept of exoneration. 9 Since this concept has been available to cultural studies, it has been possible to formulate some general comments on the trends within high-technological social complexes that have somewhat more purchase systemically...

... of practice has become widely accepted throughout the world. The more complex and problematic demand of the discipline was for ontology. J.N.L. Durand, in his Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5), gave us a version of that ontology rooted in the notion of typology and in the composition of forms...

...Andrea Pavoni This article explores the making and tasting of wine through the anonymous processes of nonhuman consumption that participate in the production of its relational ontology (the terroir) and shape its visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste). First, the author defines a notion...

... 2018 ). 3. World making is different from ontology. Proponents of anthropology's recent “ontological turn” have proposed the term pluriverse , to challenge the Eurocentric perspective that evaluates “other” cultures, but the term risks reimagining a world consisting of multiple social bubbles...

...) once all ontological differences – gods, saints, sages, and the talented – are negated. Modern man’s contemptuousness ( Verachtung ) is pacified in the “differential indifference” that forms “the formal secret of the masses and of a culture that organizes a total middle” (VM: 87). 19 The latter can...

... for such an experience, it is necessary to leave the phenomenological perspective for which the world is reduced to appearances constituted by the subject or by the categories of a language and a culture. What is called for is an ontology that does not make the things of the world relative to the absolute existence...

... S. 2007 . “ Vital Organising: Capitalism's Ontological Turn and the Role of Management Consulting .” Ph.D. Dissertation, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College , London . Padovani C. Tuzzi A. 2004 . Global Civil Society and the World Summit on the Information Society...

.... As such, responding to the ocean's declining conditions with more laws and regulations alone misses how underlying cultural values contribute to the production of ecological harm. This article considers how the imaginary of mastery underpinning dominant ocean governance regimes enables the production and distribution...