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Immateriality and Absence in the Search for Self
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 397–399.
Published: 01 November 2017
... immateriality and absence, between tranquility as a positive healing phenomenon and “simply coping mechanisms for life under neoliberal capitalism” (21). In many ways this offers us echoes of the work of the late Mark Fisher, drawing out a subtle interplay between neoliberalism as a structure of feeling...
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England, That Desert Island: Patrick Keiller’s Spatial Fictions
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that the absence of human subjects allows the filmmaker to articulate a broader discourse on space, so that the films can be described as “spatial fictions.” Keiller, by aligning his work with various strands of utopian thinking on space—from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre and the situationists—forces us...
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The Melancholic Genius without Melancholia of Jean-Luc Nancy; or, Toward a Reparative Genius
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 104–114.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Irving Goh Abstract This essay looks at the apparent absence of melancholy in the thought and writings of Jean-Luc Nancy. It is not an insignificant absence, given that Nancy does regret it especially in light of an intellectual history that links melancholy to the idea of genius. In other words...
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The Extinction Image
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
... itself must now be imagined as a disarticulate user of postcinematic media, producing images that display a stunning indifference to the presence or absence of the human species. Close examination of Chatonsky's work will reveal a radical ecopolitics defined by a concern for what Alexander Galloway has...
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Perfect Crime, Absolute Evil: In the Vortex with Baudrillard and Dantec
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... , but rather the world itself in its contingent unfolding and its radical absence of meaning. It is to this more enigmatic evil that Kernal, the hero of Dantec's 2003 novel Villa Vortex devotes himself, ironically entering the police force in order to hasten our society's collapse into chaos and Total War...
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Revealing Power: Masked Protest and the Blank Figure
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 263–279.
Published: 01 November 2013
... dynamics that have traditionally structured public space. It analyzes the different ways in which masks create transformative in-between spaces that signify the presence of a deliberately unspecified absence and therefore facilitate the possibility of thinking differently. It concludes that this strategic...
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Left in the Dark: Sharing Death with Jean-Luc Nancy
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2025
...? How to share the absence of life, of this specific life: how to share the death of Nancy? In this commemorative essay, Aukje van Rooden investigates these questions in an attempt to make sense of Nancy's passing. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Jean-Luc...
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A Predictably Obedient Riot: Postpolitics, Consumer Culture, and the English Riots of 2011
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... what our political leaders must have known for years: that our economic system is inherently unstable and corrupt and cannot be controlled by the weak regulatory systems that exist in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the euro zone. In the absence of a genuine political and economic...
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“… A Power of Sonorous Paradoxes …”: Passivity, Singularity, and Indifference in Jean-François Lyotard's Readings of John Cage
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
... drive. Freeing the primary processes from the negativity of lack would enable us to experience events in all their unique haeccity, without making them objects for knowledge: forestalling the re-presentation of presence. Yet despite the absence of an account of desire in Cage—as Austin Clarkson (2001...
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February 13, 2008, or the Baleful Enchantments of an Apology
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
... an occasion for grief. This absence of grief is, as Judith Butler's recent work argues, ethically and politically significant, because, as she puts it, it is only when the loss of life matters that the value of life becomes apparent. “Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value...
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Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On: History on Vivan Sundaram's Boat-Works
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 359–384.
Published: 01 November 2009
... cargo. Evoked in modes of absence, as fallen, displaced, or disappeared, it is bodily alienation – the distance between corporeality and reified notions of individuality, as in the monument's appeal to the heroic citizen-subject – that is reiterated and mourned in these works. However, despite...
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The Erotic and Pragmatic Senses of Hospitality: Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler's Conversation on Christianity, Politics, and the Ends of Philosophy
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 64–73.
Published: 01 March 2025
... the contemporary absence of such systems. Thus Stiegler ( 2019 : 318–19) argues that the issue today is no longer at all that of struggling against some pre-emptive right claimed by the Church over intergenerational relations. If this was the case for a long time, and if the struggle against patriarchy...
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Academics Behaving Badly
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 123–128.
Published: 01 March 2008
... and the responses to it that the role of the intellectual is to engage in just this sort of public stoush. On the other hand Collini leisurely reviews the perceived absence of intellectuals in Britain. The notion of an intellectual is, or was, altogether too French, too continental, for the British, or perhaps...
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Sars Epidemic and the Disclosure of Singapore Nation
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and in the absence of individual efficacy to deal with the epidemic had severely reduced responsibilities in the battle against the disease: to obey and behave according to the dictates of the state, for their own good and that of everyone. For example, as mentioned earlier, temperature-taking exercises had...
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Figuring Performance
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
... a channel where desiring forces come to be bound, still leaves the figure and its nonsignifying quality out of reach. Bamford very carefully underlines this remainder of absence, of negativity, as it is what distinguishes Lyotard from the notion of desire as a fundamental “yes” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix...
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Herbert Marcuse and the Promesse Du Bonheur : Politics and Literature in Dark Times
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the philosophical ideal of human happiness and the offerings of modern leisure; she writes in The Human Condition of the false allure of leisure in modern society, which cannot deliver “the universal demand for happiness” and becomes merely an absence of pain (1958: 133–34). Adhering to “the right to the pursuit...
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Figural Aesthetics: Lyotard, Valéry, Deleuze
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 144–157.
Published: 01 July 2013
... it is precisely through the absence of speech that the limitations of language in accounting for the affect are connoted. While linguistic sense denotes, the silence or the tone of the voice connotes. While language transfers communicable sentences—translatable and paraphrasable—the grain of the voice...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 151–162.
Published: 01 July 2014
... modernity, the military roots of the information age, and relations to ruin and redevelopment ( fig. 1 ). There are a series of binaries at work in representations of Bletchley: revelation and coyness display and absence depth and surface Different approaches to a site of myth...
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Do You Hear the People's Nonsense?: Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... It is the breakage of the all-too-smooth passage between sense and making sense, the emergence of virtuality and possibilities or resistance, and the affect that connect and mobilize the public. It may generate from the redistribution of the sensibles and the absence of the sensibles. A humorous incident...
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Sigmund Freud, 19 Berggasse, Vienna. André Breton, 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 407–417.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the consulting room out into the open, disclosing signs of occupancy and domestic rituals. The intimacy was thus revealed in the absence of the dweller, through the traces of his former presence. Thanks to this photographic feature we note that one side of the dwelling contained the family apartment, where...
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