Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe : Memory, Aesthetics, Art

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics. Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics. Islam,Culture,Memory,Memory Politics,Aesthetics,Art,Europe,Politics,Islamic Studies,Cultural Studies,European Politics,Cultural Policy Contents Introduction: Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe The ‘Cordoba Paradigm’: Memory and Silence around Europe’s Islamic Past Culture, Identity and Civilisation: The Arabs and Islam in the History of Spain Istanbul’s Multiculturalism Reimagined in Contemporary British Fiction Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion: Offering the Museum of Islamic Art as a lieu d’identité Visual Government and Islamophobia Veiled Bodies, Vile Speech: Islam, the Carnivalesque and the Politics of Profanation On Tattoos and other Bodily Inscriptions: Some Reflections on Trauma and Racism Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently Fun and Faith, Music and Muslimness: Dynamics of Identity of Dutch-Moroccan Youth Performing Vision: Re-presentation in Islam Confronting Images: Jahangir versus King James I From Haptic to Optical, Performance to Figuration: A History of Representation at the Bottom of a Bowl List of Authors

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social.Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam.From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

Musikalische Strukturen sind im Digitalen dem Zwang medialer und interkultureller Anschlussfähigkeit einer informatorischen Mechanik von De- und Re-Konstruktionen unterworfen. Ganz in der Tradition von Automaten und Wunschmaschinen der Musikgeschichte spielen wir heute virtuelle Instrumente in kollaborativen Netzwerken als mediale Dispositive eines akustischen Cyberspace. In dessen Resonanzräumen virtueller Klangsynthesen ist die gewohnte Opposition von Wirklichkeit und Virtualität, von Imagination und Materialität aufgehoben. An der Schnittstelle von Musik- und Medienwissenschaft beschreibt der Band die neu entstehenden Potenziale kompositorischer und klanglicher Ästhetik im digitalen Zeitalter.