Culture of Recycling / Recycling Culture?
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783631601631
Subjects: Literature; Radio relay systems; Church renewal; Culture
Description: "The purpose of this volume is to address the notion of cultural recycling by assessing its applicability to various modes of cultural and theoretical discourse. The word 'recycling' is here used collectively to denote phenomena such as cyclicity, repetition, recurrence, renewal, reuse, reproduction, etc., which seem to be inalienable from basic cultural processes. Part of our purpose in proposing this theme is a desire to trace, confront, interrogate, and theorise the surviving phantoms of newness and paradigms of creativity or dreams of originality, and to consider the need, a necessity perhaps, to overcome or sustain them, and, further, to estimate the possibility of cultural survival if it turns out, as it may, that culture is forever to remain an endless recurrence of the same."--Publisher's description.