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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288–292.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Mike Gane Whenever I read critiques of Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), by far Bauman’s greatest work, I hope to find a complete and definitive refutation of every step of the argument. And this classic work, which even today retains its devastating provocative charge, should be regarded...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 315–328.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Kim Hong Nguyen This article argues that representations in popular culture of the Holocaust of World War II are being used to reframe issues of racism in the United States. It critically examines three major discourse formations: contemporary Western thought on fascism, critical scholarship...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 442–456.
Published: 01 November 2024
... realignment. Also a historian of the Holocaust, Amar reflects on his established study on the anomalous origins of “Soviet Ukraine” in the city of Lviv during the course of alternating occupation by Soviets and Nazis, in order to draw a sobering link between the twentieth century; the current, state-led...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 432–441.
Published: 01 November 2024
... an essentially epigonal understanding of the world, which combines reified languages of Holocaust memory culture with refurbished binaries of the Cold War. Entries range from the Russia-NATO war in Ukraine (Tarik Cyril Amar in conversation with Tania Roy), through the cultural domain of Germany and the limits...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in the “frenzy of position taking” and experimentation with new and old media in the transnational circuitry. 2 Iran – by sponsoring a Holocaust cartoon contest in September 2006 in response to the Danish cartoons – moved from the periphery to the center of disputation, as it had in the earlier 1988–9 Salman...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 92–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the idea of “playing,” can profanation be provided with a specific mechanics that might function as an analytical device or assist an activist strategy? I would like to illustrate this by looking at certain forms of subjectivity in Israeli society. The Jewish Holocaust, for example, is one...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 262–276.
Published: 01 July 2024
... : Virago . Bauman Lydia . 2022 . “ To Remain Human in Inhuman Conditions .” In Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions , edited by Palmer Jack and Brzeziński Dariusz , 145 – 55 . London : Routledge . Bauman Zygmunt . 1968b . “ Marx...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... art, with its newly designated center in New York, was primarily preoccupied with the search for a “new language” rather than with confronting the Holocaust. Precisely because it had been banned as entartete Kunst (degenerate art) and expelled or perverted for its own sake by barbarism, art sought...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 284–287.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and the uncritical belief in objectivity and fact emerged from his experience of the Holocaust, which he later theorized in his book on the subject, where he drew upon the works of Max Weber and the Frankfurt School writers. But there was always more than history at stake in his work. In the current situation...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 293–295.
Published: 01 November 2017
... studies that would eventually produce his trilogy on modernity (1987, 1989, 1991) and his formulations of the postmodern turn. His Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) displays how as a public intellectual Bauman engaged a key political issue of his lifetime, combining his political engagement against...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and an endeavor for political correctness. In my paper, however, I would like to take precisely this kind of closer look at the social world of the concentration camps, and in so doing to make reference to an idea formulated by Zygmunt Bauman. In the foreword to his book Modernity and the Holocaust , Bauman...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 300–302.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the ideal of an adventure called Europe. It is a question not of abandoning the principle of the adventure but of the complexification of an understanding of what Europe is and has been. As you had already anguished in your classic Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), there was, in the European twentieth...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 277–280.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and our own demise, even to the point of committing monstrous crimes against humanity, such as the Holocaust ( Bauman 1989 ; Bauman and Raud 2015a) . Bauman (2000 , 2004a , 2006 ) made a great many attempts to define and redefine postmodernity more accurately than this—as the traditional normative...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
Published: 01 November 2020
... historical responsibility for the Holocaust. One thing is certain: Fassbinder’s play and Schmid’s adaptation opened up the possibility of raising uncomfortable issues that made both countries revisit their problematic history. In a way, the play and the film prefigure the contemporary state of things...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 July 2012
... . The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsider beyond Purge and Holocaust . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Leonard Mar 2008 . What Does China Think? . London : Fourth Estate . Lu Jie Wang Ba 2012 . China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions . Boulder, CO...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... anchored in the traumatic legacies of the Holocaust, but also invoke the ghosts of colonial violence. Both legacies serve as powerful reminders that the production of bare life, as life that can be killed with impunity, is constitutive of the Western nomos ( Agamben 1998) . Tellingly, Agamben attributes...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... admission of general responsibility for the actions of the Nazi regime, yet tempered by the assurance that he had been ignorant of and hence not involved in the Holocaust, had already started to crumble at the time of his death in 1982, but this is nowhere reflected in Kittler’s texts. It is tempting...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 198–215.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... At the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), for example, when one is confronted with the room full of shoes, one is brought into contact with the enormity of what happened. The visitor sees the shoes that survived while their owners did not, and at the same time feels her own shoes on her feet...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of the Holocaust, Anders develops his theory of “antiquated man.” At the base of this apocalyptic vision is the division of tasks in industrial and post-industrial labor that leads to an absolute alienation of the worker from his work and its products. There is, for Anders, a fatal discrepancy between...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 367–369.
Published: 01 July 2024
... contradictions as part of historical materialism's fundamentally hopeful view of progress leading inexorably toward socialism. Whereas Adorno's negative dialectics attempted to resuscitate philosophy and ethics after the Holocaust, Bond's negative ecologies similarly try to rethink ecology in the ongoing...
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