Acknowledgments Preamble: On a Musical Note Part 1 Cultural Realms 1. Culture in Terms of Representation and as Form-of-life 1.1. In what senses is culture a matter of life and death? 1.2. What is the definition of culture? 2. Culture and Politics: The Paradox of Self-Determination and the Nation-state 2.1. Self-determination: Self-evident or a paradox? 2.2. Why is the nation-state culturally determined? 3. Culture and the Political: A Multiplicity of Worlds 3.1. What is the connection between culture and world? 3.2. How does culture connote a multiplicity of worlds? 4. Culture and Economies: Society 4.1. Society: How is value determined economically and culturally? 4.2. How are economies determined by culture and can culture be used economically? 5. Culture and Affective Economies: Civilization 5.1. Civilization: How are cultural hierarchies always affectively charged? 5.2. How are the interests of people defined by affects and emotions? 6. Culture and Religion: Community 6.1. What is the relation between culture, religion, and com¬munities? 6.2. How can separate domains of life infiltrate one another? Part 2 Cultural Selves 7. Culture and Self: Individuality 7.1. Why do people want to lose their selves, or sacrifice them¬selves? 7.2. How can people become alienated from their culture? 8. Culture and ‘Other’: Affiliation 8.1. Why do cultures construct an ‘other’ and what are the consequences? 8.2. How are selves defined in intensified urban situations of cultural interactis? 9. Self and Other: In-comparability 9.1. Translation: What is needed to understand other cultures? 9.2. Does cross-cultural understanding have its limits? 10. Culture and Dis-abled Selves: Normality 10.1. How is disability historically and culturally determined? 10.2. What are the cultural affordances in disabilities? 11. Culture and Animal Selves: Relationality 11.1. How do tropes anthropomorphize animals, and animalize humans? 11.2. Do people have sufficient understanding of animal culture? 12. Culture and Machinic Selves: Artificiality 12.1. Mixtures of being: Have humans always been artificial? 12.2. What are the multiple relations between culture and technology? Postscript: On a Note of Justice Bibliography Index of terms Index of names