Hyperkulturalität

The changes brought about by the process of cultural globalization require a new concept of culture. Increasingly, cultural expressions are detaching from their original locations and circulating in a global hyperspace of culture. Culture becomes a hyperculture that is de-territorialized and unbounded. Hyperculturality reflects the state of being-in-the-world today. Through an analysis of phenomena such as place, path, threshold, strangeness, networking, appropriation, and identity, it is demonstrated how a completely different orientation in the world is both necessary and possible. Topics include: tourist in a Hawaiian shirt, culture as home, hypertext and hyperculture, the eros of networking, fusion food, hybrid culture, hyphenation of culture, the age of comparison, de-auratization of culture, pilgrims and tourists, windows and monads, Odradek, hypercultural identity, inter-, multi.