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Mapping identities in global cultural studies

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 28, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

People’s identities are an object of study in a range of fields, but it’s the field of cultural studies that has most singularly, even obsessively, sought to understand how identities interact with politics in changing media environments. Cultural studies first emerged in a British milieu marked by very specific relations between socio-economic classes, media industries, […]

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Musical occasions

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 28, 2019 | 5 Comments »

Music is an occasional topic on this blog (as shown in the Soundscape category). It was my first university discipline and love (when I was an undergrad at York’s wonderfully eclectic Music Department), still figures in my scholarly work from time to time (as in my work on Cape Breton Island and the Chernobyl Zone), […]

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Last man

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , on February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’m catching up on the news that Theo Angelopoulos died last week. Hit by a motorcycle. Now that the “last of the European modernists” (as he’s often called) is dead, where does that leave us? Like kids searching for a father we never knew? http://youtu.be/EC-AhAYLnOc

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