Queer occultism, sentimental biopower, and becoming 'bottoms' as a means to divest from white supremacy among practitioners of magic in Montréal [0.03%]
蒙特利尔魔法实践中酷儿神秘主义、情感生物权力以及成为“ bottoms”作为抵制白人至上主义的手段
Sydney Sheedy
Sydney Sheedy
Astrology, magic, and other psychic healing practices are undergoing a cultural revival, notably among those on the Left who employ it as a language for social justice. Queer practitioners have claimed kinship with the occult through a perc...
Jilly Boyce Kay,Helen Wood
Jilly Boyce Kay
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons [0.03%]
出乎意料的后果：大流行下的加密金融文化共通性
Alberto Cossu
Alberto Cossu
This Cultural Commons article provide some coordinates that help explain why cryptocurrencies have recently become mainstream, indicating their connection to precarisation and new class formations. It considers how this change has been achi...
'Come and get a taste of normal': Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic [0.03%]
“快来感受一下何为正常”——新冠疫情下的广告与消费主义
Francesca Sobande,Bethany Klein
Francesca Sobande
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to present unique challenges to governments and organisations around the world, but one sector has incorporated COVID-19 into its core mission with relative ease: advertisers have acknow...
Mehita Iqani
Mehita Iqani
This article explores how extravagantly visible mask-wearing relates with consumer culture. Methodologically, three purposively chosen case studies of spectacular or performative mask-wearing are used to show what the face mask can teach us...
George C Grinnell
George C Grinnell
Almost since its inception, punk has been declared dead. What does it mean to live attached to something that is always, at least a little bit, gone? Examining how Justin Pearson merges personal accounts of death and mourning with a sense o...
The Missing Producer: Rethinking indie cultural production in terms of entrepreneurship, relational labour, and sustainability [0.03%]
缺失的制作人：从创业、关系劳动及可持续性角度再思独立文化创作
Jennifer R Whitson,Bart Simon,Felan Parker
Jennifer R Whitson
This article draws on over 60 interviews and 120 surveys with indie game developers to illustrate relational labour and entrepreneurship practices in cultural industries and their relationship to 'good work'. We first outline the changing o...