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Le trash comme réponse au kitsch raciste et colonial: Les Chroniques de Kitchike de Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui

Quebec Studies, 2023
:Dans un compte rendu publié en 2005 dans Lettres québécoises, Sébastien Lavoie présentait le trash comme l'envers du kitsch. Je précisais ailleurs que le kitsch, qui peut être apparenté à un « mode de vie systémique et normatif, cache le système alors ...
Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte
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Transmedia strategies in school literary education: deconstructing kitsch and the semiotics of readerly creativity

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2023
We consider the substitution of living classical texts with their simulacra, kitschy interpretations, to be one of the most important issues in literary education in schools.
A. Arkhangelsky, A. Novikova
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Kitsch, City Planning, and New Urbanism

Space and Culture
This paper explores the role of kitsch in urban planning, its influence on disintegration and redevelopment, and how kitsch influences the functionality, identity, and social dynamics of urban spaces.
Shlomit Flint-Ashery
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From Transcendence to Kitsch: Have We Lost Faith?

Signs and Society, 2023
The role played by the artist and the nature of art are two of the most enduring and controversial themes in Western philosophy. Indeed, if we were to trace the history of aesthetics, it seems evident that the role of the artist and the effects of art ...
Alberto Castelli
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The Changing Meaning of Kitsch

2023
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Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture

Positions, 2022
:This article explores the ties between anti-Black racist kitsch and kawaii culture through the history of the Dakko-chan doll. In what came to be called the "Dakko-chan boom" of 1960, tens of thousands of Japanese people lined up to purchase an ...
Erica Kanesaka
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The taste of contemporaneity: is the west kitsch?

Journal for Cultural Research, 2022
As the twenty-first century begins, Benjamin’s aura as the quality of an authentic-art-object might be outdated, but the notion of kitsch remains essential in a post-Warholian world.
A. Castelli, Barbara Sonzogni
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Kitsch

2021
Chapter 5 explores contemporary Soviet anxieties about mass media and popular culture by detailing Valentin Silvestrov’s shift in the 1970s from avant-garde cacophony to a quiet, nostalgic style that he unironically called “kitsch.” During this dark economic period, when he also was persona non grata in the Ukrainian Union of Composers, Silvestrov ...
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The Even Sheen of AI: Kitsch, LLMs, and Homogeneity

arXiv.org
The exploding use and impact of Chatbots such as ChatGPT that are based on Large Language Models urgently call for a language which is fit to clearly describe functions and problems of the production process and qualities of the Chatbots'textual and ...
G. Uhlmann
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Artistic Classism and "Camp" as Critical Kitsch

Stance An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
 In the philosophy of art and art criticism, there is disagreement over whether works deemed “kitsch” can be considered art. I discuss the perspectives of two thinkers, Clement Greenberg and Robert Solomon, to elucidate the kitsch debate as ultimately an
Cass Duxbury
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