Contemporary culture : new directions in arts and humanities research /
edited by Judith Thissen, Robert Zwijnenberg and Kitty Zijlmans.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ).
- Transformations in art and culture .
Includes bibliographical references.
Mediacity : on the discontinuous continuity of the urban public sphere / Orkontros : Brazilian migrants, social network sites and the European city / Imagining the city : the difference that art makes / Body movies : the city as interface / Homo Ludens 2.0 : play, media and identity / Digital cartographies as playful practices / From Gengsi to Gaul : moblie media and playful identities in Jakarta / Transformations in perception and participation : digital games / Machinima : moving on the edge of rules and fiction / Sound technologies and cultural practices : how analogies make us listen to transformations in art and culture / The case of ccMixter : credit-giving within a communal online remixing practice / On the need for cooperation between art and science / Laboratory on the move in retrospect / Embedded in the Dutch art world / Roots and the production of heritage / How to succeed in art and science : The observatory observed / Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg / René Boomkens -- Martijn Oosterbaan -- Judith Vega -- Martijn de Waal -- Valerie Frissen, Jos de Mul and Joost Raessens -- Sybille Lammes -- Michiel de Lange -- Renée van de Vall -- René Glas -- Karin Bijsterveld [and others] -- Bas Jansen -- Robert Zwijnenberg -- Ni Haifeng and Kitty Zijlmans -- Judith Thisssen -- Alex van Stipriaan -- Geert Somsen and Jeroen Werner -- Marcel ten Hooven.
Annotation Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets, the importance of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship. The contributors argue that the humanities can regain their relevance for society, pose new questions and provide fresh answers, while maintaining their core values: critical reflection, historical consciousness and analytical distance.