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Based on the work of Walter Benjamin, the paper focuses on the notion of kitsch, considered as a category for discourse analysis. First, it discusses several levels of analysis of kitsch in discourse. Secondly, it proceeds to a reading of Walter Benjamin’
François Provenzano
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Born to stir: instant affect culture and the kitsch aesthetics of emoji images
Emojis are small icons used across digital devices and platforms, and this essay explores their aesthetics to argue that they exemplify kitsch in contemporary digital culture.
Amin Heidari
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Las articulaciones del kitsch con la estética camp
El propósito principal de este artículo es realizar una síntesis de las principales discusiones teóricas que han surgido sobre la presencia de la experiencia Kitsch en la cultura de masas y su articulación con la estética camp. Primero, se interpretarán
Dorde Cuvardic García
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The toy, kitsch and consumer society
The relationship between toy design and architecture is examined. Both phenomena play the role of a link between the past and the future. The authors have conducted a study of a large array of toy images offered in today’s market.
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Le cerf est l’un des clichés kitsch associés à l’Écosse que l’on retrouve sur une multitude d’objets présentés comme typiquement écossais, notamment des bouteilles de whisky, des coussins, des tasses et des boîtes de biscuits shortbread.
Lauren Brancaz-McCartan
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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Perhaps Spinoza's Ethics is the most austere text in Western philosophy: axioms, definitions, propositions, demonstrations, arranged with the composure of a Euclidean proof. Yet readers who persist report something closer to exhilaration than to the satisfaction of verification. This paper asks why.
Smith JB.
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We'll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war. [PDF]
Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions. We instead argue that, at a fundamental level, these predictions are dangerously wrong.
Hunter C, Bowen BE.
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A Functional Model of Kitsch and Art: Linking Aesthetic Appreciation to the Dynamics of Social Motivation. [PDF]
With the advent of modernity, change and novelty have become the core values of artistic production. At the same time the derogatory term “kitsch” was coined to contrast truly ground-breaking artistic achievements.
Ortlieb SA, Carbon CC.
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Aesthetic Assessment of Kitsch: A Reading on Bad Taste in Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment”
Kitsch, devised as a term of modern aesthetics after the 19th century, indicates an aesthetic value judgment that is identified as ‘bad taste’. It is acknowledged that the issues of aesthetic judgment and taste were systematically addressed for the first
Zeynep Çiğdem Uysal Ürey
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Carne Kitsch: Homoerotismo y cinefilia en tres textos de Terenci Moix
A partir de una serie de entrevistas incluidas en la colección Detrás del arcoiris de Iborra (2004), este artículo sostiene que, más allá de la caracterización de Moix como un "escritor homosexual", hay algo más radical en su escritura.
A. Mira
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