Sustainability beyond the commodity-machine
Sustainability beyond the commodity-machine: The production of the common in post-capitalist design cultures “What happens when this commodity-machine —now conveniently located out of the view of most...
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Eva Meijer | The view that nonhuman animals cannot be political actors because they cannot speak is common in both philosophical tradition and political practice. This view seems to be false in two...
View ArticleAffect and Urbanity: Single Migrant Woman in Shanghai
Penn Ip | My research studies how spaces control and enable lower class single migrant women’s intimate lives in contemporary Shanghai. The project focuses on single migrant women at the age of 20-35,...
View ArticleBetween Bios and Art: Aesthetic and Ethical Significance of Art Working with...
Agnieszka Anna Wolodzka | Leiden University | Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Zwijnenberg In my research I investigate the aesthetico-ethical implications of art as practice and vehicle of meaning production. I...
View ArticlePostdating the Post: Examining (Neo)Epistolary Practices in Contemporary Culture
Emma de Vries | Leiden University | Promotor: Yra van Dijk In my interdisciplinary PhD-research Postdating the Post: Examining (Neo)Epistolary Practices in Contemporary Culture, I signal and scrutinize...
View ArticleMissing Limbs
Moosje Goosen | Universiteit van Amsterdam | Promotors: Patricia Pisters and Esther Peeren I am a PhD fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. My research, titled ‘Missing Limbs’, focuses...
View ArticleThe Foundations of Criticism: The Case of October
Noortje de Leij | University of Amsterdam | supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Johan Hartle As Modernist ideals of authenticity, autonomy and aesthetic purity gradually unraveled from the 1960s onwards,...
View Article‘Errors’. Exposing the Endless Construction and Deconstruction of Digital Media
David Gauthier | University of Amsterdam | supervisor: Robin Boast Current discourses on digital media display a fascination with the linguistic, numeric, algorithmic, social, and material aspects of...
View ArticlePost-rationalisation: Openness in Contemporary Social Organisation
Jan Overwijk | University of Amsterdam | supervisors: Boomkens, Celikates The question of modernity is as old as modernity itself. Philosophically, Kant studied modern thought in a critique of reason;...
View ArticleThe Performative Force of Accented Speech: Language, Body, and Violence
Tingting Hui | Leiden University | supervisors: Ernst van Alphen en Yasco Horsman In the contemporary globalized world, the accent marks a distinction between insiders and outsiders, and can sometimes...
View ArticleGlobalization, charity fundraising and mediated suffering
Wouter Oomen | Utrecht University| supervisors: Sandra Ponzanesi & Markus Stauff Contemporary images used in charity fundraising aimed at the abolition of poverty are ingrained with a notion of a...
View ArticleFreezing Fertility: A Cultural Analysis of Oocyte Cryopreservation and Ageing
Lucy van de Wiel | Supervisors Mieke Bal, José van Dijck and Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2011-2015 The basis of my research is the triangulation of the technology of oocyte...
View ArticleBrains With Character
Tim Yaczo | Cultural Plasticity: Neuroarchaeologies of the Present | Supervisor: Patricia Pister “Brains with Character: Reading and Writing Neuronarrative” tracks the concept of neuronarrative by...
View ArticleThe Foundations of Criticism: The Case of October
Noortje de Leij | University of Amsterdam | supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Johan Hartle As Modernist ideals of authenticity, autonomy and aesthetic purity gradually unraveled from the 1960s onwards,...
View Article‘Errors’. Exposing the Endless Construction and Deconstruction of Digital Media
David Gauthier | University of Amsterdam | supervisor: Robin Boast Current discourses on digital media display a fascination with the linguistic, numeric, algorithmic, social, and material aspects of...
View ArticleThe Representations of Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Jiyu Zhang | The Representations of Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema | Supervisor: Prof. dr Ernst van Alphen As a PhD researcher in film and literary studies at Leiden University, I have...
View ArticleDutch Design, Glitches, Misfits: Why Western Europeans Crave the Imperfect
Jakko Kemper | University of Amsterdam | Dutch Design, Glitches, Misfits: Why Western Europeans Crave the Imperfect | Supervisors: Ellen Rutten, Marie-Aude Baronian Today’s world is marked by a complex...
View ArticleSublime Imperfections: Post-Soviet Trash Aesthetics
Fabienne Rachmadiev | University of Amsterdam | Sublime Imperfections: Post-Soviet Trash Aesthetics | Supervisors: Ellen Rutten, Joost de Bloois The purpose of this research is twofold: to provide an...
View ArticleMemory and Materiality: Multisensory Ethnography of Culturally Diverse Urban...
Elisa Fiore | Radboud University Nijmegen | Memory and Materiality: Multisensory Ethnography of Culturally Diverse Urban Settings | Supervisors: Anneke Smelik, Liedeke Plate My PhD research develops a...
View ArticleNon-heteronormative Cultural Practices of Sexual Citizenship in Curaçao and...
Julian Isenia | University of Amsterdam | Non-heteronormative Cultural Practices of Sexual Citizenship in Curaçao and Bonaire under conditions of (post)coloniality | Supervisors: Sruti Bala, Rivke...
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