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... the importance of Middle-earth to New Zealand's national identity in the twenty-first century. This hybrid identity was then articulated as something that stood against labor actions by film industry workers, culminating in citizen marches against local labor. It closes by exploring ways that the importance...

... as directed toward the production of hybridity. Further, and despite the continuing presence of an official policy of multiculturalism, these developments have highlighted the highly provisionalized forms of national belonging now available to Australian citizens in certain immigrant communities, particularly...

...Steven Morrison Filmed in Shepperton by a director from New York, shaped by a novel by a British author at its inception and influenced by the work of a British cast and crew during its production, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is explored in this essay as a British–American hybrid. Kubrick’s...

... personal and public residues of identity construction within the context of postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa. In the artwork, skin forms a figurative and metaphorical site of intervention for the grafting of tensions, ambiguities, and differences in the formation of new hybrid, transforming...

... the hybrid spaces where culture happens. The focus on hybridity presents another of the main arguments in this book whereby the notion of the word lab as signifier is broadened and deepened, given its application in numerous areas (arts, humanities, social sciences, natural or hard sciences, design...

.... 2). Hutnyk attacks what he calls “trinketisation,” which he appears to under stand as the obsession with trinkets (such as Malinowski's kula ) and the use of popular cultural studies buzzwords like “hybridity” (specifically by Homi Bhabha), a term which, for Hutnyk, is “more market able than...

... in the context of a rapidly marketizing society. Both disrupt ideas about nature and culture. As Beck (1999) has argued, the accelerated globalization of our time has meant that the biotic boundary crossing amongst the volatile “man-made hybrids” has confounded the separation of the world into categories...

..., and such an understanding is crucial to shedding light on the current situation. He is not ready to acknowledge that “remediation” ( Bolter and Grusin 1999 ) is the only, or always the best, way to analyze how software environments are hybrid. Manovich does not discuss or mention media archaeology but is partly operating...

... into the relationships that humans share with jaguars in postwar Bajo Atrato. The jaguar is not perceived as a singular, cohesive entity that roams the forests. Instead, it is viewed as a hybrid object, existing as “a jaguar and a half, or a half of a jaguar” (205). When perceived as “more than one,” the jaguar is seen...

..., and abide by this expatriated American writer's deeply cultivated sense of cultural difference and rejection of hybridity across decades of civilizational Islamophobia. The risk or refusal of conversion proves crucial as a topic in the Middle East and (all the more so) as a writing tactic of cultural poesis...

... as it was about “extra-economic” restructuring of the conditions for profitability. In the case of Iraq, neoliberalism (the conservative revolution against the welfare state) converges with the revolution in military affairs to yield a new hybrid – military neoliberalism. In the third chapter, they examine...

... Project,” hybridizes painting and agitprop practices. The mural appears “naturalized” in its Harlem location because it uses processes (hand painting and screenprints) and sign systems (historical resistance graphics) that are readily legible. ...

... is different from earlier large political groupings of power since it is truly global and thereby “deterritorializes” older political forms such as the nation state. Also unlike the nation state, empire is “decentered” or not specifiable by markers of land. “Empire,” they contend, “manages hybrid identities...

... by infrared from a helicopter and then a remote-controlled “robot” pulled back the tarp covering him. This effective hybrid mobilization of hierarchical and distributed networks was mediated through mass and social media. In some ways, the process was what US military planners hoped the Human Terrain...

... composites of numerous anatomical parts, as in her Hybrid series (2003–6). Leaning against the bark of tree trunks ( People in Glass Towers Should Not Imagine Us [2003]), these hybrid women frolic and flicker into avian and vegetal forms sprouting fluid tendrils ( Me Carry My Head on My Home on My Head...

..., the family subplot in RoboCop is further proof of RoboCop/Murphy’s return to the human fold and underlines the strand of technopessimism in the film. The failure of the technology that supports RoboCop/Murphy’s hybridity comes about precisely through his hominization (or rehominization). Perhaps...

... cages, leading to what fashion scholar Caroline Evans defined as a tendency to “eclipse fashion with theory” (2003 : 3). In this sense, Thinking through Fashion becomes a very useful tool if read transversally, as an instigation to practices of hybridization and contextualization of theories able...

... ). 4 Ideally, we wanted our cases to be specific in time and location, but some of the work also took the path of being more speculative beyond a historical timeline. A good example was the project “Hybrid Anthropochory,” which focused on the ill-conceived, Stalin-era plan to plant borshevik (giant...

... we see in Bennett’s transformation and implementation of Deleuze and Guattari indicates that our collective challenge is, on the one hand, to transform these hybrids into practices that deal with affect, sensation, and materialism and, on the other, to heed events and that open to a care...