Cultural Ecology and Cultural Critique

Cultural ecology

Human groups with no culture or communication cannot exist. this essay addresses changes in the concept of development, as it relates to culture and communication, as a new reference point for practical applications of development and cooperation among nations. the idea of development has changed. economic development has evolved to mean sustainable human development. this shift in meaning repr...

Theatricality and Cultural Critique in Chinese Cinema

Cultural Ecology: a Brief Overview

Modeling the Cultural Subjectivity: Towards Computational Critique?

In this paper we use a computer model of social capital to explore and develop a computational social theory of the anthropological or interpretive notion of the sub jectivity (Ortner 2005). The cultural sub jectivity is a social theory of the reflexive actor that is historically situated in a material and cultural context. It is important for computational social science to begin developing to...

O Culture's Open Sources: Software, Copyright, and Cultural Critique

gramming and distribution which, when combined with novel uses of intellectual property law, has come to be known as “free software” or “open source software.” It is distinguished from other forms and practices of software production for many reasons, but most interestingly because its practitioners discuss it not simply in technical terms, but as a philosophy, a politics, a critique, a social ...