Writing Public Culture

Writing Visual Culture

Writing Visual Culture

This article examines the recent emergence of the motion comic as part of a growing relationship between comic books, animation and new forms of digital entertainment and distribution. Motion comics typically appropriate the narrative and ‘static’ artwork of a comic book, which is then manipulated by animation software such as Adobe’s After Effects to create an impression that is similar to pap...

Writing Visual Culture

This paper queries the contrasting epistemological frameworks that operate in the sciences and creative arts. An epistemological matrix is proposed that maps knowledge as a Boolean array, primarily referencing the work and ideas of Charles Saunders Peirce and the infamous statement of Donald Rumsfeld concerning "known unknowns". The work of Pye and Ingold is referenced so as to articulate how c...

Public Interest Anthropology in Heritage Sites: Writing Culture and Righting Wrongs

Taylor and Francis Ltd RJHS_A_133729.sgm 10.1080/1352 50500337462 International Journal of Heritage Studies 352-7258 (pri t)/1470-3610 (online) Original Article 2 05 & Francis 1 50 000Decembe 2005 In an era of increasingly contentious identity politics and growing tensions over whose narrative should predominate at heritage sites, public interest anthropology offers a valuable approach for scho...

Culture ’ s Public Face

an the public sphere be understood as a cultural phenomenon? Perhaps, C although an approach through the social seems less circuitous. This may be due in part to Habermas’s lucid formation in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ([1962] 1989). The term “public sphere” conjures in the mind an image of place, whether we see the coffee houses, salons, and debating clubs of seventeent...