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The Conservative Assault on America: Cultural Politics, Education and the New Authoritarianism
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 139–164.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Henry A. Giroux This article argues that while the United States has been drifting toward the ideological right since the 1980s, the election of George W. Bush marks a qualitative turn toward authoritarianism. This authoritarian turn is traced through the rise of four antidemocratic tendencies...
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The Fantasy of the Elite Force Aviator: On Dolls and Desire
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2009
... can only be fully understood if it is viewed alongside a consideration of the ideological function of fantasy, especially as it is set out in the work of Slavoj Žižek. The article focuses on one particular piece of mimesis, namely the “Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush 12-inch Action Figure...
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“There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush . New York : Little, Brown & Co . Foucault M. 1980 . “ The Eye of Power .” In Gordon C. (ed.) Power/Knowledge , pp. 147 – 165 . Brighton : Harvester . Froomkin D. 2009 . “ A Pretty Good Place to Start...
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Death by Deceit
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 216–224.
Published: 01 July 2018
... director Christine Todd Whitman, President George W. Bush, and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Following the destruction of the World Trade Towers, this trio took to the media. Bush urged everyone to “act normal,” suggesting we take the family shopping. Whitman infamously appeared on TV with her children...
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Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
... war, ecological devastation and other forms of oppression, they represent important oppositional forms of agency in the ongoing struggle for social justice and a more participatory democracy ( Marcuse 2001: 180–2 ). In contradistinction, since George W. Bush ascended to the presidency in a highly...
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Power, Secrecy, Paranoia: Technologies of Governance and the Structure of Rule
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... . The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays . New York : Knopf . Kamen A. 2005 . “ George W. Bush and the G-Word .” Washington Post , Friday, October 14 : 17 . Kittler F.A. 1990 . Discourse Networks 1800/1900 . Trans. Metteer M. and Cullens C. Stanford, CA...
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Enjoying Neoliberalism
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... students near the bottom. Thus the emphasis on testing part of George W. Bush’s education policy, No Child Left Behind, is not accompanied by a corresponding ranking of students; instead, schools and teachers are ranked and assessed – not the students, because everyone is a winner. Fourth, Žižek writes...
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The Global Sphere: Peter Sloterdijk’s Theory of Globalization
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 November 2007
... inclusion. This work is thus as much a new kind of critical theory as it is a work of political theory, and it raises awareness of historical links such as, to name but one, that between Phileas Fogg and US President George W. Bush. Where it leaves the reader wanting is in the realm of cultural politics...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and opened parallels between the Soviet Union's and the United States' military presence in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. It also helped that the joke was funny. The political narrative in the United States was being rewritten as we discussed the project. By the time George W. Bush had been...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
... antagonisms, that is, class war turns into “culture war.” This last point helps, in part, to explain the rising influence of the Moral Majority and neoconservatism among the working classes in the United States from the late 1970s up to and including George W. Bush’s two terms as president. With the sublation...
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The Media, Democracy, and Spectacle: Some Critical Reflections
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2015
... ( Alterman 2003 ; Kellner 1990 , 1992 , 2001 , and 2003b ; Miller 2004 ). Thus it was not surprising that, during the 2000 election, key sectors of the media were highly critical of Democratic Party candidate Al Gore but much less so of George W. Bush, son of the former president (see Kellner 2001...
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Resistance Becomes Ballistic: Vanishing Point and the End of the Road
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
... American foreign policy. Combined with the ongoing canonization of much of the output of the so-called New Hollywood of the 1970s, the critical cinema of the period is perhaps more visible and more acclaimed than it has ever been. In light of George W. Bush's headlong rush into another US-led military...
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Democrats against Democracy
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 163–181.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in the Age of Bush , there was reason to ponder what role American citizens played in moving their democracy closer to something that resembled authoritarianism. Conason argued that, with the election and then the reelection of George W. Bush, a large cross-section of Americans had ostensibly confirmed two...
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Hegel on History, 9/11, and the War on Terror, or Reason in History
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... views are identified with the administration of George W. Bush, Samuel Huntington, the political scientist, and Bernard Lewis, the historian of the Middle East. The Bush administration has emphasized its conviction that those who are its enemies are irrational and act in irrational ways. According...
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Hunting a Whale of a State: Kittler and His Terrorists
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... several millennia for the current dehumanization of the terrorists. Listen closely to Zarathustra and you will hear George W. Bush. But let us be clear on this. When Kittler takes aim at Bush and his “tablet of values” he is condemning the rhetoric, not the action obscured by it. Anybody familiar...
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Pixelated Flesh
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and economic in its scope and requires setting out to better grasp the role played by the pixel in Virilio’s wider reading of contemporary media. W. J. T. Mitchell’s (2010) focus on post-9/11 forms of representation in Cloning Terror looks at George W. Bush’s “war on terror” as a war waged via images...
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A Risk Society of Moral Panic: The US in the Twenty-First Century
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
... . “ A Nation of Victims. ” The Nation , June 30: 20 – 22 . Bush George W. 2005 . “ Second Inaugural Address. ” Washington Post , January 21. Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement. 2004 . Youth Turnout Up Sharply in 2004 , November 3. Children’s...
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Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., to recent efforts to prevent George W. Bush from acquiring a second term, MoveOn has become a presence in mainstream American politics and boasts over two million members worldwide. In addition to circulating petitions and arranging e-mails and faxes to members of Congress, one of MoveOn’s best actions...
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Wikination: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... is that nowadays the political is played out in the moral register ” (ibid.: 5). So, to provide a few examples of my own, after the events of 9/11, North Korea, Iran, and Iraq were notoriously positioned by George W. Bush in terms of an “axis of evil” ( Bush 2002 ) – an axis which was soon expanded to include...
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Velocities of Power: An Introduction
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and deferred consummation. The delay caused by inquiry is precisely that which engenders anxiety among speed-merchants, as American President George W. Bush's impatience with United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq attests. It is here, perhaps, in unhurried deliberation, that we might start to understand...
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