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Chapter 6 Contemporary Habitats of Meaning

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Writing Future Worlds

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Engages critically with the uses of “culturespeak” in scenarios and related kinds of public usage. What kind of understandings of culture are set forth in the scenarios, what kinds of critical responses have these met with? Starting out from a view of human beings as a learning species, how can we grasp contemporary world culture as an organization of diversity? State, market, movement and consociality are identified as major organizational frames of contemporary culture, and the relation of major scenario writers to these frames is mapped.

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Hannerz, U. (2016). Chapter 6 Contemporary Habitats of Meaning. In: Writing Future Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31262-0_7

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