The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

While in prison, he wrote at least four book-length manuscripts including a lyrical autobiographical novel, How It All Began, philosophical treatise Philosophical Arabesques, a collection of poems, and Socialism and Its Culture – all of which were found in Stalin's archive and published in the 1990s ).

Consider Phlebas is Banks's first published science fiction novel set in the Culture, and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.

A subsequent Culture novel Look to Windward ( 2000 ), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.

Banks has said " Inversions was an attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't.

It was the second published Culture novel.

In the novel, the protagonist ultimately finds that his ( successful ) tactics reflect the values of his own civilization, the Culture, though he also recognises that his own thought and behaviour have been markedly influenced by the manner in which he has been forced to compete.

Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fourth science fiction novel to feature the Culture.

This novel is about how the Culture deals with an Outside Context Problem ( OCP ), the kind of problem " most civilizations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Also significant within the Culture novel cycle is that the book shows a number of Minds acting in a decidedly non-benevolent way, somewhat qualifying the godlike non-corruptibility and benevolence they are ascribed in other Culture novels.

It is Banks ' sixth published novel to feature The Culture.

In some respects Look to Windward serves as a loose sequel to the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas: the GSV Lasting Damage fought in the Idiran-Culture War, and Ziller specially composes a work to commemorate the arrival of light from a supernova triggered during the war.

There are references to the Culture novel immediately previous to this one, Excession, where the GCU Grey Area is referred to, and is also possible that Estray Lassils ( in her younger, four-armed days ) was one of the lovers of the Ah-Forget-It-Tendency SC Agent Leffid Ispanteli, thus placing the events of this novel fully 200-300 years in the immediate past.

It was Banks ' second science fiction novel not based or set within the Culture universe.

It was his first science fiction novel not to be based or set in the Culture.

* University of Virginia Web site " Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive "— edited by Stephen Railton, covers 1830 to 1930, offering links to primary and bibliographic sources on the cultural background, various editions, and public reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel.

She is a citizen of the Culture in the novel Use of Weapons, the novella The State of the Art, and is hinted at in the novel Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks.

The Idiran-Culture War is a major fictional conflict between the Idiran Empire and the Culture in the midst of which Iain M. Banks ' science fiction novel Consider Phlebas is set.

In Jacobson's 2010 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question, St John's Wood is the planned location for the Museum of Anglo-Jewish Culture.

* Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.

It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the Excession of the title.

The book is largely about the response of the Culture's Minds ( AIs with enormous intellectual and physical capabilities and distinctive personalities ) to the Excession itself and the way in which another society, whose systematic brutality horrifies the Culture, tries to use the Excession to increase its power.

The Excession of the title is a perfect black-body sphere that appears mysteriously on the edge of Culture space, appears to be older than the Universe itself and resists the attempts of the Culture and technologically equivalent societies ( notably the Zetetic Elench ) to probe it.

A group of stereotypical bureaucrats tries to manage the Culture's response to the Excession but is brushed aside by the Interesting Times Gang, an informal group of Minds some of whom are veterans of the Idiran-Culture War, to try to deal with what is by far the most serious challenge the Culture has faced.

Meanwhile a rapidly-expanding race, which the Culture calls the Affront ( because of its systematic sadism towards subject species and its own females and junior males, despite being relatively advanced ), tries to exploit the Excession by infiltrating a store of mothballed Culture warships and using them to claim control of the mysterious object.

It also takes the name given to it by the Culture – Excession – as its own.

In The Player of Games, a Culture citizen is blackmailed, apparently by Special Circumstances Minds, into assisting the overthrow of a barbaric empire, while in Excession, a conspiracy by some Minds to start a war against an oppressive alien race nearly comes to fruition.

In the novel Excession by Iain M. Banks, the GCU Grey Area is a General Contact Unit ( a self-aware spaceship dedicated to the task of exploring the universe and interacting with other species ) of the fictional Culture society that has turned eccentric.

In one of the Culture novels ( Excession ), a GSV unloads its organic population and transforms itself into a very fast-moving shipyard / mothership, effectively deciding the outcome of the main plot thread.

For example, in Excession, GCV Steely Glint was charged with coordinating the militarization of Culture forces and was de facto military commander for a given region of space.

This was most obvious in the ' Culture and Personality ' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

* Ambrose in Anglo-Saxon England, with Pseudo-Ambrose and Ambrosiaster, Contributions to Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, by Dabney Anderson Bankert, Jessica Wegmann, and Charles D. Wright.

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee.

In real terms, the British Museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through a three-year funding agreement.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

* Free Culture ( book ) by Lawrence Lessig

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Culture is sometimes used by the organizers of society — politicians, theologians, academics, and families — to impose and ensure order, the rudiments of which change over time as need dictates.

He also began teaching at the Harlem Arts Workshop, founded by Augusta Savage in the basement of what is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit " Cockney Translation " by Smiley Culture of South London ; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's " Cockney and Yardie ".

On April 6 Husserl was suspended from the University of Freiburg by the Badische Ministry of Culture ; the following week he was disallowed any university activities.

The books The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, by Bronisław Malinowski, Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, and Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead ( two of Boas's students ) are classic examples of anti-ethnocentric anthropology.

: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture " by Henry Jenkins