Koriak’s Cultural Critique

Theatricality and Cultural Critique in Chinese Cinema

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...

Understanding Cultural Evolutionary Models a Reply to Read’s Critique

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 ...

A Conceptual Critique of the Cultural Cognition Thesis

I offer a critique of the cultural cognition thesis. I argue that cultural cognition is not a theory about culture or cognition per se; rather, it is a thesis that aims to explain why specific American groups with opposing political views disagree over a select number of contemporary science issues. I highlight that cultural cognition can be characterized as a “strange loop” as it frequently de...