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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... , May 15 , www.arpajournal.net/we-are-test-subjects-2/ . © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 art and technology labs US avant-garde Cold War MIT LACMA Experiments in Art and Technology In October 1966 a series of performances titled Nine Evenings: Theatre and Engineering...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2009
... event. Such a reading of Russian culture and art is highly useful in terms of our understanding of what really happened in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, for it helps us comprehend those radical changes as gradual, rather than sudden – a stark contrast to the adversarial model...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 14–23.
Published: 01 March 2020
... have to create something unique, something new. We have both of those in us, and they’re in conflict. TPF: You’re criticizing the avant-garde, but your thoughts are daring, pushing the envelope of the avant-garde. Can you address the paradox here? MLU: Being able to write that paragraph...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 246–248.
Published: 01 July 2021
...? Of course, history allows us to understand the present, and the present in turn shapes both our understanding of history and the resonance of historical artworks. While Marx saw a tragic revolution repeated as farce, Foster sees political art revived as capitalist spectacle. In a number of essays, Foster...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 July 2014
...-object. Much of the work shown at the ICA uses irony, but, as said above, I do not think this applies to Protest Drives History , nor to Protest Is Beautiful . Instead, I read both works as interrupting avant-gardism at the point at which, historically, it has become institutionalized, precisely...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... for literary works to disrupt habits of thought through the specific techniques of literariness , the phrase has come to be one of the crucial legacies of formalism through its use within a broader avant-garde. 3. The discussion of the role of art in relation to the Holocaust was based...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in those days. Now semiology very definitely exists. It’s struggling to make headway, but it exists. I think this was a useful book at the time, but you don’t need me to tell you that it’s already very dated so far as content is concerned and seems very basic as they say, very taxonomic. It’s a very...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 November 2008
... received US backing. It did not last; America’s approval of Diem’s presidency waned over subsequent years as his autocratic approach to rule became apparent. By October 1963 a number of monks had immolated themselves in protest at Diem’s anti-Buddhist policies, and at the time of Madame Nhu’s visit...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
... . 2001 . Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Essays in the (Mis)Use of a Notion . New York : Verso . As a premier star in the global spectacular celebrity system of the 1950s, Picasso, though a Communist Party member, was considered by high-ranking politicians, such as then US vice president...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... commonly ‘Who? Who drove her to this? Who is responsible?’ ” Although Wolf’s work on suicide concerned itself predominantly with the methods used by persecuted rural women to protest unjust social relations, her argument about the “who” rather than the “why” ricochets across Chinese historical time. Every...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 July 2023
... vaccinations also arise from labs? The LAB Book arrives at an auspicious moment: a worldwide pandemic certainly invites new debates about the cultural politics of laboratories. Importantly, this book invites us to think about and rethink what a lab is, what it can and cannot do, and how we engage...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in Posthumous Writings , is “a mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations that, poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and adorned, after steady use occur to a people as founded, canonical and obligatory: truths are illusions …” (1980: 880, 881...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... But considering that a number of the artists in her survey clearly make work that is largely or wholly informed indirectly through the media, she leaves us perplexed, and a trifle troubled, as to why she invokes the myth of wartime ennoblement to begin with. Slavick does proceed to counterpoint the valuation...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... challenge is to liberate sound from grand narratives, so as to make music out of what was once noise. Lyotard thus sees music, as he sees certain practices of painting, as an act with potentially “political” implications. Vallee uses both Lyotard and Deleuze and Guattari as philosophical lenses through...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of this cognitive realm than we are of breathing or balancing. This constant interplay between human bodies and their environing ecologies and technologies constitutes us as inhabitants of a world—and inhabited by a world—we would not be able to survive without. References Angerer Marie-Louise . 2023...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
... (like Cage a student of Zen and Jung) as producing a “subtle yet radical transposition that uncomfortably detaches us from a simple metaphysics of plenitude [characteristic of Francis's self-reflections].” It is just this sort of profitable “transposition” enacted in Lyotard's engagements with Cage...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to classical verse was a rupture. Barry Katz observes that the language of resistance poets increasingly departed from that of the avant-garde as “their use of the classical vocabulary, paraphernalia, and rituals of love” became the “artistic-political a priori of their work” (1982: 123). Paradoxically...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 261–287.
Published: 01 July 2023
... production in this period was motivated by an interest in shaping human subjectivity. While pertinent to American art history, 2 these policies had a global effect: the Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet Union to ideologically determine what progress and modernity meant for the world had...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2021
... been charged with what might be described as an impoverishment of sense. Given the timing of the discourse on the digital, it is unsurprising that these changes to photographic image production have been met with reservation by humanities scholars. Although digital effects have been used in film...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 296–312.
Published: 01 November 2013
... , translated by Gregory Elliot . London : Verso . Vogel Sabine B 2010 . Biennials: Art on a Global Scale . Vienna : Springer . The biennale signals a moment of change for India, and at this critical juncture, it is useful to consider some of Rancière's ideas about the emancipatory...
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