Search results for "aesthetics"

When the arts inspire businesses: Museums as a heritage redefinition tool of brands

2018

International audience; While the literature has mainly considered brand museums as communication tools or complex retail environments, this article analyses them through a heritage framework and suggests that brands can use heritage technologies of the arts for their own purposes. The case study of the brand museum of the Laughing Cow highlights the heritage technologies the brand uses to endorse two heritage roles: an inter-generational memory role based on the transmission of the brand's history and a community representation role through spaces and objects. As a consequence, this research sheds light on how brands can come to be accepted as heritage objects. By using heritage technologi…

Fiktiiviset reseptit ja mahdottomat ateriat kirjallisen komiikan lajina

2017

Fictitious recipes, impossible meals: a subgenre of comical literature The article looks into ctitious and imaginative food recipes and comical potentiality of such food related text types as listings of ingredients, foodstuffs, dishes, or portions. The focus is on imaginary, fantastic, and impossible meals and recipes: portions that could not be implemented in the real world. The recipe as a form is covered from genre-theoretical, narratological, poetic and procedural perspectives. The special point of reference is experimental literature and its interests in literary forms, rules, constraints, and procedures − the terms that could be used to define also culinary recipes as codes or script…

Geography of Emotions Across the Black Mediterranean: Oral Memories and Dissonant Heritages of Slavery and the Colonial Past

2019

AbstractThis contribution is dedicated to analysing oral memories about the Black Mediterranean through interviews with people from or culturally linked to the Horn of Africa. The aim is to consider how the interviewees make use of archives to voice their feelings about the past and present in Africa and Europe. I introduce the concept of a “geography of emotions” as a set of different perceptions of Europe and its past. The mobilization of these memories in new interpretative perspectives is part of a dissonant heritage which is actively working inside the European borders in order to produce new cultural identities, to reiterate forms of belonging to black diasporic communities, and to in…

Contro il dominio dell’Arte. L’estetica quotidiana dei Futuristi

2020

Uno degli aspetti più significativi del Futurismo è la violenta ribellione contro l’arte aulica del passato. Tale polemica si traduce nella proclamazione di una nuova estetica incentrata sul corpo in movimento e sulle sue relazioni polisensoriali con l’ambiente circostante. Per mettere a fuoco questa prospettiva estetica si prenderanno in considerazione le cosiddette “ambientazioni futuriste”. Esse segnano il momento cruciale in cui la creatività futurista si allarga dall’arte allo spazio quotidiano sia pubblico sia privato, sia domestico sia urbano. Inoltre le ambientazioni attestano il ruolo pionieristico che i futuristi hanno avuto nell’ avviare una riflessione sullo spazio vissuto che m…

Ornamenti un Simetrijas: Ornamentālo Rakstu Zīmju Valoda (intervija ar Modri Tenisonu)

2010

Ornaments and Symmetry: Language of Signs of Ornamental Tracery (see interview with Modris Tenisons http://www.blip.tv/file/3173653) In his first interview Modris Tenisons explains language of ornamentalistic signs for national ornamental belts using his discovered law of sieve displacement, which gives base duality element in ornamentalistic signs, and routine how to generate 240 elements of signs from 10 “seeds of chaos” sufficient to produce all ornametal belts of first order. He tells also about his discoverd 16 sign alphabet, that does the same. Pirmajā mutvārdu liecinājumā Modris Tenisons stāsta par ornamentālo rakstu zīmju veidošanās likumsakarībām sakrustojot divu krāsu diegus audum…

Gender and the superhero narrative

2019

As the title of the volume promises, Gender and the Superhero Narrative offers an insight into the ways gendered norms and ideals have been negotiated in superhero narratives. Yet this is not all i...

Of Termites and Ovaries on Strike: Rethinking Medical Metaphors of the Female Body

2017

AbstractThis article explores how problematic or detrimental metaphors of the female body can be reimagined. Metaphors that compare the body to a machine or factory influence the ways in which wome...

Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity

2020

Femininity and the Salon

2020

This chapter concerns Salon Culture and its role as a distributor of philosophy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, marking the importance of the mostly unacknowledged contribution by female thinkers. The salon presents the space between private and profession in which the participants could try out new roles and change old ones. Thus, the establishment of sentimental circles such as the Tugendbund around Henriette Herz, the extensive net of communication and representation established by Rahel Varnhagen, the opportunity to publish under either pseudonyms or hidden behind a male editorship used by writers such as Dorothea Schlegel may all count as first attempts to form a role as sa…

Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia

2018

Mathematicians love to tell stories about people they once knew or perhaps only heard about. If the story happens to sound believable, others are apt to repeat it, possibly embellishing on the original tale. Such mathematical folklore occasionally finds its way into print, and once it does, readers are apt to take such stories at face value, lending them additional credibility. Occasionally, though, alleged facts come under scrutiny, and established stories are exposed as fiction. Yet even when someone comes along with decisive evidence refuting an earlier account it can easily happen that the original story just refuses to die.