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This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory.

This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory.

Si la culture fonde l'autonomie de jugement et de la réflexion critique, le fait d'appartenir à des cultures particulières n'autorise pas que l'individu soit soumis à des traditions oppressives. La laïcité est une conquête des droits de l'homme pour la liberté individuelle. Elle constitue le meilleur cadre pour accueillir les différences culturelles sans rien concéder à un quelconque pouvoir qui tendrait à remettre en cause cette liberté.

Une définition précise de la « culture numérique » passe par une description de ceux qui participent à son élaboration et par un détour historique qui nous précise les termes de la culture de l'écrit. Les lettrés du numérique semblent plus répandus au sein des disciplines qui font un grand usage des ordinateurs et des réseaux. Leur culture « technique » leur permet d'élaborer une critique de l'internet et d'investir le champ des humanités numériques. Ils sont accompagnés par quelques représentants des sciences sociales et par des « hackers », plus proches de l'université qu'on ne le croit. En revanche, le grand public subit plus cette nouvelle culture qu'il n'y contribue. Car les multinationales de l'écrit sont les premiers façonneurs de cette culture de l'écrit contemporain, au point d'en dessiner les normes morales et politiques. ; A precise definition of Digital Culture needs a description of people involved in its development and a historical detour that tells us how written culture was built. Digital scholars seem more prevalent among disciplines that make extensive use of computers and networks. Their technical culture allows them to develop a critique of the internet and to invest the field of Digital Humanities. They are accompanied by some representatives of the social sciences and by "hackers", closer to the University than we imagine. However, the public at large suffers more this new culture rather than contributing to it. For the multinationals are the major shapers of this modern written culture, to the point of designing the moral and political standards.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- A note to the reader -- 1. Introduction -- 'Culture' at The Department for Culture, Media and Sport -- Culture as a Perspective -- The Dangers of Culture -- 2. Landscape -- Culture into Nature -- Nature into Culture -- Cultural Explanation and Its Limits -- 3. A whole way of life -- Patterns of Life -- Dirt as a Cultural System -- The Value and Limits of Cosmology -- 4. Politics -- From Politics to Culture and Back Again -- Religion, Culture, and Women-Who-Cover -- Culture and Capitalism and The Anthropocene -- 5. Experience -- An Argument for Reimagining Culture -- Experiential Maps -- Cultural Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis -- 6. Death -- From My Diary -- In the Kingdom of the Sick -- Teaching Death -- 7. Two cheers for culture? -- Guarding Against Cultural Reductionism -- Embracing Collective Intimacies -- Finding Productive Distance -- Engaging With Culture that Matters -- Bibliography -- Index.

Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualisations of it have evolved over the last two centuries--from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present-day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat 'unfashionable' thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule of the 'uncultured' masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society. -- Inside jacket flap.