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	Superculture and the Global Mix (English Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Supercultures embody features from this seemingly anonymous "supermodern" world, and from cultural debris scattered about in what is often called the "postmodern" world, but they are also made up of more enduring, substantive cultural traits and traditions.
		Superculture also corresponds closely with what Manuel Castells calls a "supertext." In his discussion of "the network society," Castells uses the expression "supertext" to refer to hybrid symbolic products that are created through the reflexive mixing of various "realities" by "blending in the same discourse...messages emitted from [various] levels of existence" (Castells 1996: 373).
		Supercultural construction underscores the ability of human beings to transform the mundane cultural worlds they inherit through birth and physical presence in particular locales of time and space in order to explore the unknown, and to overcome limits while creating new modes of personal stability and belonging.
	members.aol.com /JamesLull/superculture2.html (11212 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Superculture
		The term superculture has been coined to describe the developing global lifestyle of the World elite, founded on the power of multinational corporations.
		The superculture therefore transcends traditional boundaries of national loyalty, with a pointed focus on extreme global luxury and privacy.
		The term "superculture" arose in direct opposition to the term "subculture", which describes a group of people similarly hidden from mainstream view.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Superculture (182 words)

	Slobin, Subcultural Sounds
		These three words, subculture, superculture, and interculture are all defined at the beginning of the related chapters.
		Superculture can be defined as the overarching, dominating mainstream that is internalized in the consciousness of all the people of that culture.
		There is no controlling group or people that make up the rules of the superculture; it tends to be thought of as the "givens" in a culture.
	cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/568/568.papers/verinder5.html (2497 words)

	MeCCSA 3rd Annual Conference - Lull
		The superculture is a janus-faced, transient space between here and there, between society and self, and between the material and the symbolic.
		The argument emphasizes the role of perception and interpretation in cultural construction, and recognizes that everyday understandings of culture necessarily float between the global and the local, between the collective and the individual, and between mediated and unmediated forms of experience.
		The technological and symbolic conditions that give rise to supercultural construction emphasize the capacity of people as willing and resourceful creators of their cultural experience.
	www.meccsa.org.uk /conference3/abstracts/lull.html (215 words)

	monson
		Mark Slobin has recently proposed a general yet fluid framework for considering the interactions among heterogeneous local cultures ("subcultures"), hegemonic cultures ("supercultures"), and internationally related structures ("intercultures"), as well as the melange of elements that constitute each of these individually.
		What Slobin calls superculture, interculture, and subculture are cerainly at play in my analysis, yet I suggest that the notion of subculture as applied to African-American music has a problematic aspect because the predominant direction of influence in American popular music in the twentieth century has been from African-American to European-American.
		In the musical sphere, African-Americans invert the expected relationship between hegemonic superculture and subculture (without, however, changing these relatinships in the economic sphere), something which is of extreme symbolic importance to African-American comunities.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v20/v20n2.monson.html (1082 words)

	1. LINGUISTIC ASSIMILATION
		Finally, consider the effects of what Kenneth Boulding (1966, 1969) has called the "superculture", namely the mechanisms and processes that, among other things, lead to a homogenization of cultural and artistic artifacts and expressions in an effort to make them available to mass audiences and publics.
		It is therefore not an accident that many components of the superculture are designed and crafted in today's lingua franca, namely English.
		The artifacts of the superculture are, to a considerable extent, in English and are made available to mass audiences worldwide in that language in such a way that the lingua franca and the superculture form another self-reinforcing loop which serves to enhance a bit more the economic yield on investments in the lingua franca.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/lo-ol/perspectives/english/explorer/page_04a.html (1832 words)

	The Burden Project - The Cast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Robert Stone: a delusional psychologist, often preoccupied, lost in intellectual associations with ancient philosophers whose way of thinking he attempts to apply to his professional practice.
		Lucy Regis: a hard-driven psychiatrist and the former Director-in-Chief of Project Superculture, a frazzled, anxiety-ridden, manic personality.
		He is a charismatic leader type, very histrionic, and somewhat full of himself.
	www.burdenproject.com /cast.html (269 words)

	Development of a Superculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A quarter, perhaps a third, of the human race has moved toward a kind of world superculture of skyscrapers, automobiles, airplanes, and intercontinential hotels.
		The rest of the human race still remains close to subsistence.
		The development of the superculture is the result of the knowledge explosion, which led not only to new theories and processes, but to new discoveries, especially of fossil fuels and rich ores.
	www.colorado.edu /econ/Kenneth.Boulding/quotes/q.body.26.html (153 words)

	eemadges: #392 : Back in the solar system, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sunlight still reaches the birth world, but much of the rest of the star's output has been trapped by the growing concentric shells of computronium built from the wreckage of the innermost planets.
		Two billion or so mostly unmodified humans scramble in the wreckage of the phase transition, not understanding why the vasty superculture they so resented has fallen quiet.
		Little information leaks through their fundamentalist firewalls, but what there is shows a disquieting picture of a society where there are no bodies anymore.
	www.eemadges.com /show/392 (360 words)

	Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word
		Culture may be thought of as a being with ver own preferences, biases, and motives, while also being composed of smaller, mostly myopic, beings, although no culture is closely-knit enough to be truly sentient or self-aware.
		We could define a "Superculture" as being a culture whose constituents are more closely interconnected, with much greater communication bandwidth between the separate minds (such as being able to transmit actual thoughts, rather than just ambiguous words), such that some loose group-sentience appears, while still retaining a great deal of individual-sentience.
		This would present a tangled-hierarchy, one much more intense than what exists in a regular culture; the Culture influences the thoughts of ver constituents, while Culture verself is influenced by the thoughts of ver constituents.
	www.mail-archive.com /agi@v2.listbox.com/msg01325.html (442 words)

	Joho the Blog: What's a Meta For? [Note:
		While it would be self-contradictory to expect a full answer ("Please utter the unutterable in 100 words or less"), we need some type of answer since the Web isn't something we can only experience by dying.
		Daniela Bouneva Elza at LivingCode suggests that it's the "superculture" described by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in Figments of Reality.
		A superculture knits together multicultures "like genuine multicellular organisms," say Black and Cohen.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/000561.html (385 words)

	Robert Christgau: Dreams So Real: R.E.M.
		Only for the Reaganites this usually came down to greed and nimbyistic bigotry, while the rock and rollers gravitated toward something more humane--flexible notions of self-actualization, live-and-let-live tolerance undercutting boho snobbery, and a sense of social responsibility that got broader and more specific at pretty much the same rate R.E.M. did.
		The turning point was 1987's punchy, pronounced, political Document, which shipped gold, then went platinum off a sardonic single that citizens of the superculture thought was a love song.
		But though 1992's Automatic for the People is so slow it seems sodden at times, "Nightswimming" and the Andy Kaufman tribute "Man on the Moon" are really just mournful, and what they mourn isn't so much lost life as lost youth, a base rock and roll cliche revitalized by death's proximity.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/rock/rem-96.php (1114 words)

	Relic Forums - View Single Post - Best/Worst books
		The book which had the most tremendous impact on me would have to be Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which I read in 8th grade.
		I hadn't yet been introduced to any anthropological concepts-- to pick these up while using them to see that Western superculture is geared towards expansion even at cost of a healthy ecosystem was somewhat mind-blowing.
		I'd also reccomend James Blish's "Cities in Flight" which was an anthology of short stories strung together as a novel.
	forums.relicnews.com /showpost.php?p=94003&postcount=2 (220 words)

	[No title]
		Superculture = an overarching dominant system (with regional and transregional visibility)
		Each of the three terms is detailed in a separate chapter, and two other chapters present case studies.
		Slobin has a fresh writing style filled with intriguing metaphors like this one: “We are all individual music cultures, using patchworks of compiled sounds stitched into a cultural quilt to help us keep warm.”
	ethnodoxology.org /reviews/3-1e_Subcultural.htm (747 words)

	RPG Encyclopedia Entries: Finnish
		A Finnish-language fantasy RPG, based on a series of fantasy comics by Petri Hiltunen.
		The game takes place in the ancient land of Jaconia, now a fragment of living land surrounded by cursed ruins of an ancient superculture, Borvaria.
		Jaconia consists of about a dozen kingdoms or city-states, as well as large tracts of unclaimed land inhabited by barbarian tribes.
	www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/bylanguage/Finnish.html (944 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Describe the "superculture." For each charactersitic of the superculture you wish to describe, give an illustrative example.
		In what way is the superculture American and in what way is it international?
		Use the concept of intertextuality to discuss how American imagery pervades commercials internationally.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~ikalmar/question/Rutherf.htm (66 words)

	Mixed Feelings About Chanukkah - The Jewish Connection
		I guess I always knew this on some level -- that it wasn’t Greeks the Hasmoneans fought but Hellenized Jews -- but this article spells it out quite clearly.
		Read in its historical context, however, the Hanukkah story is really about a revolt against the Hellenized Jews who had fallen madly in love with the sophisticated, globalizing superculture of their day.
		The Apocrypha's texts make it clear that the battle against Hellenization was in fact a kulturkampf among the Jews themselves....
	ajewishsoul.blogspot.com /2005/12/mixed-feelings-about-chanukkah.html (791 words)

	PULP : : The Manga Magazine : : 5.10 Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I lived in Japan for four years and met Junko Mizuno through 6% Doki Doki, where I held the first solo exhibition of my paintings.
		Now a prized exhibit in my "living museum of superculture" is the set of three silk-screened T-shirts produced at home by Junko and her sister on a "T-shirt kun" DIY screen-print kit.
		Junko is a sensational, original, and eccentric artist, and I'm glad that her work is reaching an international market.
	www.pulp-mag.com /archives/5.10/letters.shtml (1546 words)

	Amazon.ca: Superculture: American popular culture and Europe: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
		Be the first person to review this item.
		Top of Page : Superculture: American popular culture and Europe
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0879720700 (117 words)

	ateaseweb.com \| radiohead message board > Chinese people. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		May 25 2005, 03:29 PM I have just realised my use of the term "master race" may have some unsavoury connotations and am so tactfully withdrawing it.
		You may wish to substitute "hyper-people", "differently-advantaged ultra-species", and my personal favourite "global superculture".
		I have just realised my use of the term "master race" may have some unsavoury connotations and am so tactfully withdrawing it.
	www.ateaseweb.com /mb/lofiversion/index.php/t48518.html (1297 words)

	"The Ground Beneath her Feet" \| Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Everybody is along for the ride Ahmet Ertegun, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Andy Warhol etceteras.
		It is the story of post-partition India invading the musical superculture, the jet stream upon which cultures actually interface.
		This is the story of great love- love that will overcome all.
	www.tribes.org /cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=146 (733 words)

	Cinerama: Torino: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You know, sex in our superculture could use some demystification.
		I know it's in our programming, but I had this flimsy theory that the mega-pull of loin-worship might be made more subtle if sex wasn't presented as a balletic panacea.
		The Replacements Don't You Know Who I Th...
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cinerama/torino.shtml (903 words)

	Toward a model for the evaluation of the cultural strength of various musics
		They correlate somewhat with anthropological categories of the functions of music in culture,
		These criteria are meant to be applied singly to each relevant music or musical style, as experienced by a subcultural grouping, occurring in the context of one cultural domain of a defined culture (or superculture).
		In this article, the subculture under scrutiny is that of Protestant churchgoers within the Ubangi, and the cultural domain is their religious life.
	www.sil.org /anthro/articles/model/determine.htm (766 words)

	Jiminy Critic Movie Reviews - Review of American Psycho (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But there is another, much more insidious world that was created during the 80’s.
		As a direct result of President Reagan’s hands-off big business policy and his “trickle-down” theory of economics, corporations were allowed to grow unchecked at the expense of the common man, and as a result a hollow, self-centered Wall Street “superculture” sprang up almost overnight.
		This is the 1980’s that American Psycho, the most controversial new film of the year, explores.
	www.jiminycritic.com /review.asp?ReviewID=9 (833 words)

	Geona.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Album and live reviews, mainly from the UK.
		Into Liquid Sky - Entertainment Superculture Check out our Anime and Manga Section - Into Liquid Sky Entertainment Superculture Welcome to ILS's Music section.
		You can hear Top 40 bands on the radio anywhere and read reviews on their albums...
	www.geona.com /search?q=&c=/Arts/Music/Reviews&page=6 (316 words)

	Invasion Trigun: Goto http://itrigun.tripod.com/Frames1.html
		I really need to have it open in a new window.
		We are all mindless clones of a universal superculture.
		Spent 12+ hours working on French video final.
	itrigun.tripod.com /OldNews.html (1888 words)

	Welcome to Routledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture.
		* Cultures of the mind * Rethinking culture in a global context * Re-thinking Culture, from 'ways of life' to 'lifestyle' * Gender and Culture * Popular Culture and Media Spectacles * Visual Culture * Star Culture * Computers, the Internet and Virtual Cultures * Superculture in the Communication Age
		Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group plc.
	www.routledge-ny.com /shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?isbn=0415221161 (142 words)

	- Chapter 2
		The Exchange was essentially reduced to Jimmy McCray, a small, sandy-haired Irishman with a hint of a brogue, a sample of a culture whose homeland, and, indeed, home planet, he'd never really seen, and Modra Stryke, a fiery redhead on a near constant emotional roller coaster.
		The Mycohlians, whose ruling superculture was the only one of the Three Empires who had a favorable view of demons in their mythologies and religion, were down to three as well.
		The Mizlaplanians, mostly by being last most of the journey, had fared the best.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200601/0671578308___2.htm (9448 words)

	AKMA's Random Thoughts
		I suppose I could hire a private investigator, orI could just look him up on Google." "What might be a better metaphor for the Web?" Instead of my having to rely on my own rundown imaginative facilities, I can pose the question and several bright, insightful people can give me helpful advice.
		As David points out, Daniela at Living Code drew on Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen to propose a "superculture" model; despite the fact that she cited George Lakoff, one of my heroes, I'm not quite on board with thinking of the Web as a culture (or superculture).
		But maybe I haven't thought about it long enough.
	www.seabury.edu /faculty/akma/2002_03_17_blogarch.html (4053 words)

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