Kultur och estetik i en global värld

Azoulay, A. 2012 Civil imagination: a political ontology of photography. London: Verso Books pp. 1-27 and 29-54.

Berger, J. 2019/1972 ''Photographs of agony''. In: Wells, L. (ed.) The photography cultures reader. London: Routledge. pp. 121-125 (pdf)

Butler, Judith 2015 Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. London: Harvard University Press (särskilt Introduction, kapitel 1, 2, 4 och 5) (tillgänglig som e-bok via UB, finns även på svenska, ej e-bok, På väg mot en performativ teori om offentliga församlingar. Stockholm: Tankekraft förlag)

Cizek, Katerina & Uricchio William (ed.) 2022 Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (särskilt kapitel 1,2 och5) https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5488/Collective-WisdomCo-Creating-Media-for-Equity-and

Johansson, Stefan 2022 Den otyglade skönheten. 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin. Stockholm: Norstedts (särskilt kapitel 4, 5 och Slutsatser)

Parry, Kyle 2022 “Memes, Assembly, and the Internet”. In: A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes. Minnesota University Press. (pdf)

Voigts, Eckhart 2017 ‘Memes and Recombinant Appropriation: Remix, Mashup, Parody’. In: Leitch, Thomas M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. pp 286–302. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wark, Scott 2021 “A Postdigital Angel of History? On ‘Meme Theory”. In: Critical Meme Reader I. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-meme-reader-global-mutations-of-the-viral-image/

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Applegate, Matt & Cohen, Jamie 2017 ‘Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Language, and Commodification as Culture’. In: Cultural Politics 13 (1): 81–100. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3755204.

Benjamin, Walter 1934 “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” i Hannah Arendt (ed.) Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books. (26 sidor)

Bristow, Dan 2019 ‘The Work of Art(iculation) in the Age of Memic Rhythmicality: Memes between Form, Content, and Structure’. In: Postmemes: Seizing the memes of production. Goleta: Punctum Books. (open access)

Mina, An Xiao 2019 From Memes to Movements: How the world’s most viral media is changing social protest and power. Boston: Beacon Press.

Papastergiadis, Nikos 2014 A Breathing Space for Aesthetics and Politics: An Introduction to Jacques Rancière. In: Theory, Culture & Society, 31(7-8), 5-26. (pdf)