Cultural Studies

I have recently been thinking about humans needing several different perspectives to develop ideas for ourselves. How many times have your parents taught you their idea of how to best accomplish a task, only for you to realize years later that there is another way that works much better and…

My university, Uppsala Uni. participated in a cultural night in Uppsala two months ago. We, Japanese students, were called to volunteer and four female students of us, including me, happened to do part-time jobs at the Japanese cultural slot of the cultural festival. I was helping draw manga. Then something…

The Director’s Cut: Chico and the Man, Freddie Prinze, and the Sonic #Mextasy of Spanish-accented English in a Small Texas Bordertown William “Memo” Nericcio | 20, June 2022 Nota bene: A shorter, edited version of this piece originally appeared 20 June 2022 as a part of the Kojak Your Enthusiasm series (#24) on 70s television by Josh Glenn and his crew of hermenauts on Hilobrow.com. What appears below is the full…

Hassan, R. 2020. The Culture of Digitality. In: Hassan, R, The Condition of Digitality. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book44.f This work is a personal endeavour to hastily summarise, understand and synthesise the article above. As such, many sentences contained within this article may actively plagiarise the above document…

Really Socks? — You are the leader of a school for poor, minority children. One day you overhear a frustrated teacher complaining in the main office… “I can’t believe it! Derrick has come to school again without socks. I have bought and sent home with him, four pairs of socks. …

Siegfried Kracauer, in Das Ornament der Masse (1963), argued that ephemeral and seemingly trivial cultural products can give us a unique access into the workings of culture. “The position that an epoch occupies in the historical process, can be determined more strikingly from an analysis of its inconspicuous surface-level expressions…