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KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Being Together. Remaking Public Intimacies

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

This project is about public intimacies. Public intimacies describe the current situation where intimate, sexual and personal matters are part of the public. Cultural repertoires and discourses in the form of representations and aesthetic, performative an d communicative modes forge and inform new intimate and sexual relationships. The project is trans-disciplinary and consists of four strands that are closely interrelated thematically, theoretically and methodologically, but focuses on different media, co mmunication-technologies, modes of communication and aesthetics. These are: television and art, literature and film, new digital technology and media debates and advisory columns. In addition it is the ambition of this project to make a major Nordic contr ibution in international theoretical debates on intimacy and sexuality. Because of this it is included a fifth strand to be able to develop theory from a Nordic cultural perspective and to dialogue from a humanities perspective with international theory a nd research on these matters.

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KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting