Tag Archives: Cultural resistance

Tattoos in American Visual Culture, Mindy Fenske

Tattoos have during the last few decades undergone a cultural transformation, from being a mark of deviance belonging to the lower social classes and something one should not “do to oneself”, to being relatively accepted in today’s society. This is not just as a passing fad, but also as representative of a broader change of […]

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PhD viva examination

Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.

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Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

A sequl to Empire, this book examines the “other side” of Empire; ie. the different groups and formations that resist Empire. Much of the book is a historical in addition to a philosophical investigation of these developments. The most useful aspect of their book, is the concept of the multitude, which allows for a broader […]

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Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Hebdige’s classic work on subculture shows us much about how those commonly referred to as the dominated, do in fact resist this domination in complex ways.

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