Browsing by Subject "cultural studies"
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
(2018)Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. ... -
Music and the Modes of Production: Three Moments in American Jazz
(2018)What ideological dreams does music express? And how does it do so? In listening to three paradigmatic moments in American Jazz, this dissertation attempts to answer these two problems by illustrating how the modes of our ... -
Network Aesthetics: American Fictions in the Culture of Interconnection
(2010)<p>Following World War II, the network emerged as both a major material structure and one of the most ubiquitous metaphors of the globalizing world. Over subsequent decades, scientists and social scientists increasingly ... -
Show Me What Democracy Looks Like: Articulating political possibility in Durham, North Carolina
(2018-04-27)As in most U.S. cities, municipal voter turnout in Durham, North Carolina is stratified by race and income level. Local politicians win elections by catering to the predominately white and middle-class bloc categorized as ... -
Split Reality: Virtual Worlds of American Culture from 1692-2017
(2020)Virtuality—specifically the influence of the immaterial digital world—has been identified as an accomplice of twenty-first century media driven crises. From arguments that video games cause mass shootings to the emergence ...