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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 194–205.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tao Dongfeng This essay provides an introduction to the ways in which Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman has been applied to Chinese cultural studies, and especially to media studies. It argues that the emerging phenomenon of “amusing ourselves to death” in China is fundamentally different...
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2025
... this text, you wouldn't be reading it. Tentatively touching the crossing of Nancy's death, we also touch on ourselves. So what has Nancy's work grafted onto our collective thinking? In what way has he traversed it? Above all, he provided us with a new and challenging ontology. His philosophy of life...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... unexpected encounters with lovers, comrades, family, or strangers. From his travels and research, Lingis uses his phenomenological methods to describe numerous unfamiliar attitudes or practices with regard to dying and ceremonies of death. He gratefully admits that on several occasions perfect strangers...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
... is wanted from a university education. ( Bloom 1987: 320 ) 18. See Sandel (1996: 104) as well as Sullivan (1995) . References Baudrillard J. 1975 . The Mirror of Production . St. Louis : Telos . Baudrillard J. 1993 . Symbolic Exchange and Death . London : Sage...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... . Marx Karl , and Engels Friedrich . (1848) 2004 . The Communist Manifesto . London : Penguin . Orwell George . (1949) 1983 . 1984. London : Penguin . Postman Neil . 1987 . Amusing Ourselves to Death . York : Methuen . Standing Guy . 2011 . The Precariat...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 32–41.
Published: 01 March 2016
... la fortune” (“Legislation and Luxury: The Social Function of Individual Wealth”).—Trans. 2 Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th ed., s.v. “Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul.”—Trans. 1 It had fallen vacant on the death of his father-in-law, Michel Chevalier, in 1879.—Trans. This material...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 307–326.
Published: 01 November 2007
... there; it thinks , a masterless thinking). This dual model of thought carries far beyond the traditional critique of ideologies, into an area beyond the vrai naïf and the faux naïf . In my view, the famous parable of paragraph 125 of The Gay Science , in which the death of God is proclaimed, invokes precisely...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 93–110.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . On Royalty . London : Viking . Postman N. 1987 . Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business . London : Methuen . Richards B. 2007 . Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan . Ross K. 2004...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2014
... . Baudrillard Jean . 2002 . Screened Out . Translated by Turner Chris . London : Verso . Baudrillard Jean . 2003 . Cool Memories IV, 1995–2000 . Translated by Turner Chris . London : Verso . BBC . 2013 . “M62 Crash Deaths Caused by Lorry Driver as He Read Text.” BBC...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... . 1991 . The German Ideology . New York : International Publishers . McFadden Robert Macropoulos Angela . 2008 . “ Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death .” Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html?_r=1 . Mulhern Francis . 2009 . “ Culture...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business . New York : Penguin . Robin Corey . 2011 . The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin . New York : Oxford University Press . Seymour Richard . 2016 . “ Schadenfreude with a Bite .” London...