Pub Date : 2018-12-18DOI: 10.24193/mjcst.2018.6.01
Steven Smith
This research proposes that augmented reality technologies have the capabilities of intertwining natural spaces, material spaces, and networked (or immaterial) spaces together through the author's original idea of the between, which can in turn be used to further explore rhetorical discourse and im/materiality and bolster emerging discourse within the digital humanities. By using a variety of contemporary research on diverse topics within augmented reality and the humanities, such as the inside/outside model and the regenerative/transformative concept (each proposed by Victoria Gallagher in her works on visual rhetoric), as well as an examination of current augmented reality applications (Wikitude and Pokémon Go), the author argues that emerging applications in AR can offer scholars a variety of possibilities to explore new media and the humanities, as well as more interdisciplinary fields such as public spaces, natural spaces, digital spaces, rhetoric, science, technology, and critical cultural theory.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.06
Anna Specchio
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.24193/mjcst.2018.5.07
Daiana Gârdan
The following paper intends to investigate the main junctures and disjunctures of Romanian prose written by women in the first half of the twentieth century from a quantitative perspective. The paper will employ a macroanalysis of both the novels written in this period and the prose written by female writers, in order to establish a pattern in the modernisation and institutionalisation of Romanian literature in the inter-war period, more specifically in the 1930s, the decade that saw the emergence of the main canonical Romanian novels. The paper will also delve into the main principles and discussions surrounding early Romanian feminism. Aspects such as import literature, translations, and the circulation of Western literary trends in the Romanian cultural field will be critical to understand how Romanian prose written by women evolved over the course of the twentieth century and established an alternative literary canon.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.04
Khanyile Mlotshwa
In this paper, I combine critical feminist theories and postcolonial/decolonial feminist theories to examine the persistence of patriarchy in South Africa’s postcolonial moment. The postcolonial is taken as both the time that comes after settler rule is over and the recognition that colonialism continues in another form even after settler rule is over (Hall, Post-colonial 244). I ask how is it that at a postcolonial time, when South Africans seem to have made strides on the liberation of women, especially black women, political parties are still reluctant to elect females to lead. Through a close reading of the election of five men and only one woman to lead the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for the next five years – as a news event – I argue that the reasons include an ineffectual liberal feminist praxis adopted by the leaders of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) as some kind of ‘depoliticised politics’ (Jorgensen and Phillips, Wodak and Meyer, Fairclough). This lack of ideological clarity is characterised by reluctance to tackle patriarchy head on by the women leaders.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.03
M. Delvaux
This paper addresses the question of race in relation to the image of serial girls. I reflect on how seriality affects women of colour and how it operates by imposing an ideal white female body and an ideal image of femininity. I am also interested in the way seriality is used by artists of colour, as a means for resistance against white cultural supremacy and (white) misogyny. Beyoncé is one example of how seriality can be reproduced in order to resist. Some relevant proof I analyse in this paper are the 2016 Superbowl performance and the film-album Lemonade. In this context, the image of serial girls appears both as a symptom of racism and as a possibility of anti-racist engagement.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.05
Cristina Diamant
: Science-fiction writers tend to side either with the flesh, holding that “ all is body/matter, ” or with the machine, believing that “ all is mind, ” and these two divergent perspectives translate into either a protectionist or an accelerationist attitude. They can, however, be seen as interpenetrating agencements (Charles T. Wolfe), as is the case of Donna Haraway ’ s “ cyborg ” as an emerging political form, especially in feminist science-fiction works. Jeanette Winterson ’ s novels may seem to slowly turn away from the flesh since Written on the Body , from Gut Symmetries to The PowerBook and The Stone Gods . The present paper aims to suggest that what Written on the Body expresses is the heightening of kynicism (Peter Sloterdijk) towards both the flesh and the machine, all while rejecting cynical reason. The novel offers the reader an ec-static understanding of desire and loss, as well as the possibility of spiritual rather than spiritualist sans-philosophie (François Laruelle).
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.02
A. Preda
This paper examines, through the lenses of agential realism, the uncanny sense of posthumanist relational subjectivity that Winterson’s utopia evokes through the twofold romantic encounter between female scientist Billie Crusoe and humanized sherobot Spike. This same-sex cross-species futuristic love affair that develops across two different space-times succeeds in blurring the boundaries between humans and machines, thus prompting readers to overcome their anthropocentric worldview and to abandon the deep yet narrow concern for the moral and cognitive implications of the humans’ fate at the end of the de-centring process brought about by the posthuman turn, urging them to consider, instead, more significant and wider issues such as accountability and responsibility. Thus, it can be viewed as a fictional narrative embodiment of Karen Barad’s theoretical reconfiguration of materiality as discursive and of performativity as a dynamic process of constraining iterative intra-actions rather than of determining interactions.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2018.5.01
Anamaria Deliu, L. T. Ilea
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