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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Claudia Mareis; Burke Barrett This article discusses a particular strand in the history of creativity in the mid-twentieth century shaped by an instrumental, production-oriented understanding of the term. When the field of creativity research emerged in the United States after World War II, debates...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Jonathan Harris This essay highlights post-1945 intertwined aesthetic and political radicalisms in the visual arts, drawing on key examples from the United States and Western Europe in the decades from the end of World War II to the present. It seeks to explore the complex relations between...
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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 (2013) 9 (3): 357–370.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Ian Waites George Shaw (1966–) is a British painter known for his meticulous depictions of Tile Hill in Coventry, a post–World War II council housing estate where Shaw lived from 1968 until the late 1980s. This article assesses Shaw's work as a product of a wider struggle between the idealistic...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 442–456.
Published: 01 November 2024
... under the ethnonationalist-fascist banner of World War II Ukrainian nationalism: The “local” was also imagined as always at least a potential (hidden? dissimulating?) “Banderite” (a term derived from Stefan Bandera, the authoritarian leader of the most fascist and largest wing of Ukrainian nationalism...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... was fundamentally and irrevocably geared toward war. The Third Reich is war, period. But in Kittler’s texts this has little to do with Hitler’s vision of politics as an eternal pseudo-Darwinian struggle. Nor is World War II the result of the desire to acquire living space or exert racial hegemony. Nazi ideology...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the acceleration we've been speaking about. If proof be needed, we have it in the concrete of all the walls built after the Maginot Line or the Siegfried Line, which were the very basis for World War II. Walls fifteen hundred kilometers long are being built on the US-Mexico border, built around Israel...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 261–287.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and contextualizes Taiwan's modern art as part of a Cold War convergence of art, design, and technology. 1 On a global scale, and in relation to the American military-industrial complex and its attendant neo-imperialism (Immerwahr 2020 : 13–144), the post–World War II and early Cold War period of the 1940s–60s...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that the cinema, as art of the masses, could be the supreme revolutionary or democratic art, which makes the masses a true subject” ( Deleuze 1989: 216 ). In modern cinema, which he dates as beginning with the end of World War II, by way of contrast, “the people no longer exist … the people are missing...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... certainly borrowed something from the shared project that galvanized American science and industry during World War II and which was formalized and generously funded during the Cold War, but this security-driven model was itself an adaptation of the collective creative spirit that characterized the New Deal...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of their emblematic architecture. To grasp the Swedish state’s current marketing of its military estate, one has to reframe it historically within the nation’s choice to remain neutral during and after World War II, a decision that led to a vast program of construction of military and civil protection covering...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... and appropriation. Saturation bombing during World War II and the detonation of the atomic bomb revealed the redundancy of conventional strategies of defense that, after 1945, as Paul Hirst observes, “switched from active to passive, from fortifications as a means of fighting to the hardening and protection...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... . Conant J. 2002 . Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II . New York : Simon & Schuster . Ebeling K. 2006 . “ Das technische Apriori ” In Engell L. Siegert B. Vogl J. (eds.), Kulturgeschichte als...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 367–369.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of postplantation modernity and economic abundance to ecological devastation (chap. 6, “The Ecological Mangrove”). The impressive range of case studies collectively depicts the centrality of the negative ecologies of oil to the post–World War II American dream of a seemingly abundant consumer culture underpinned...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 498–508.
Published: 01 November 2024
... , no. 2 : 368 – 92 . Tiqqun . 2001 . “ Introduction to Civil War .” In “Zone of Offensive Opacity.” Special issue, Tiqqun , no. 2 : 8 – 188 . Turner Fred . 2013 . The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Sixties . Chicago : University...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... signifiers—hinting at political and existential struggles soon became the US government’s ideological tool against communism. For many European avant-garde émigrés, post–World War II art, with its newly designated center in New York, was primarily preoccupied with the search for a “new language” rather than...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 111–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1945, at the end of World War II, and graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1949. She found her place among like-minded creative artists, including many young GIs just returning from the war. Her studio professors, fellow students, and the collections...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 151–162.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in representations of Bletchley: Bletchley Park is a former country estate, with a large house in an undistinguished late Victorian style. During its time as the headquarters of UK cryptanalysis efforts in World War II, its grounds began to fill with huts, followed by massive information-processing blocks...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... there was a jolt of déjà vu, a psychic stutter-step like the glitch in the Matrix that signals something serious is about to go down ( The Matrix , 1999 ). On her shirt front was a meme that looped from World War II to The Walking Dead to what would soon be the eternal now of life and death in the time...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of monopoly-state capitalism in which powerful corporations and the capitalist state came to control more and more dimensions of society and the polity, culminating in the fascist regimes, which during World War II ignited a global war in which the survival of freedom and democracy were at stake. A hero...
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