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Accidentology: A Critical Assessment of Paul Virilio's Political Economy of Speed
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Steve Matthewman This article surveys the work of one of the most prominent theorists of accidents today, Paul Virilio. Particular focus is given to the May 6, 2010, Flash Crash. This event is used to measure the worth of Virilio's accidentology, as it is viewed as a harbinger of the integral...
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Perfect Bodies and Digital Influencers: Gendered Ruptures of Performance on Social Media in Brazil
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Both forms of self-construction are appropriated by consumer culture and are perceived as authentic, reinforcing individualistic agency in a neoliberal context. But what happens when a fitness influencer accidently leaks the information that she underwent a liposuction procedure? Or when a “body...
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Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2007
... during the 2004 and 2006 Canadian elections in order to expose the limits of the media's criticism of polling and to contend that published preelection polls contribute to the formation of suspicious subjects. I go on to argue that political campaign communication is open to information accidents so...
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“Passing Everybody and Never Halting”: Dromos and Speed in Jack Kerouac's On the Road
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 139–156.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and continues to inform social practices up to the present day. There is another instance in On the Road when the occurrence of an accident leads to an accusation of theft. After their involvement in a minor automobile accident, Sal and Dean are stopped by the police (214). The police officer has been...
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Democracy of Emotion
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the coast of Sumatra represent a global accident by anyone's definition. Miserable miracle of Tampa, where exemplariness struck once again and so much so that the press shot of the Cessna's tiny cabin, clinging desperately to the intact facade of the Bank of America, is, you have to admit, the perfect...
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Inner Screens and Cybernetic Battlefields: Paul Virilio and RoboCop
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., the colonized body of RoboCop/Murphy, fatally flawed by its own original accidents, would be as false as clinging to the homo technologicus, fatally flawed by original sin. In an interview with John Armitage (1999 : 51), Virilio declared fiercely: “I want to be neither a God nor a cyborg! I want to be a man...
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Remembering Paul Virilio
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 July 2019
... . Oxford : Berg . Virilio Paul . 2007b . The Original Accident . Cambridge : Polity . Virilio Paul . 2009 . The Aesthetics of Disappearance . New York : Semiotext(e) . Virilio Paul . 2010a . The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject . Cambridge : Polity . Virilio...
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Deep Times of Planetary Trouble
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... But the accidents of the elemental media do not necessarily come as flashy spectacles. As Rob Nixon (2011) has argued, meticulously and with flair, particular attention needs to be paid to the reality of slow violence that takes a temporal and visual form different from the form taken by immediate explosive...
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Speed, War, and Traumatic Affect: Reading Ian McEwan's Atonement
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 51–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... to denote that which is contingent, random, or accidental ( Lacan 1994 : 53; see Bowie 1991 : 102–3; Foster 1996a : 132). It thus closely coincides, both in meaning and in point of derivation, with Paul Virilio's notion of the “accident.” 5 Whereas, in most spheres of human activity, the potential...
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Killing Memory: Roadside Memorial Removals and the Necropolitics of Affect
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... from news stories about state removals, which also conflate the trauma of the accident with the trauma of the removal, but here the frame places viewers in a much more extreme position in relation to the removal. Within this placement, the only response offered is righteous indignation, which...
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Cold Panic
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 March 2005
... is tending to disappear, like that between private and public. Hence the advent of a third type of conflict, after “civil war” and “war between nations”: namely, war on civilians ; hence, also, the major political importance of the consequences of the (natural or industrial) catastrophic accident...
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More Than a Catastrophe / No More a Catastrophe
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of causes located in the food industry and other industries” and of the invention of automobiles and the automobile accidents that pile up in its wake (25). Capital is clearly unfazed by such catastrophes. Instead, it is able to see the economic potential in them and to capitalize on them. Thus, in the case...
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Glitch
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that now, in everyday English, a “glitch” is any accident that is trivial enough to be overcome. A glitch in any kind of system creates minor disturbances without actually damaging its major functioning. Glitches do not stop transmission: they merely make it scrappy, dirty, or noisy. In media, the word can...
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Celebration: A World of Appearances: Paul Virilio Interviewed by Sacha Goldman
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Rochelle, around the beltway. They call it the suicide wall. Because there are a lot of bikers around here dying in speeding accidents…no one talks about it for fear of inciting panic, so as not to turn it into an attraction. Well, people rush to see it anyway. It's become a metaphor, a symbol, a monument...
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The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular: an Interview with Jean Baudrillard
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 339–344.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... And then, from time to time, there's an explosion, a dramatic event, an “accident” as my friend Paul Virilio would say. He's actually talking about an accident that could be apocalyptic … J-F.P. : In that respect, do you think September 11 was predictable? J.B. : There is one world power which...
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Light and Illumination: Paul Virilio’s Neoplatonism and the Theological Critique of Modernity
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of departure for all forms of philosophizing in the premodern world. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Neoplatonism Nicholas Cusanus theological turn technological messianism metaphysics of light Today as we have seen the problem of the accident has shifted from the space of matter...
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What to Paint?
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 212–218.
Published: 01 July 2013
... a metaphysics of the subject (we have been quite mistaken in this regard) but a metaphysics of forces. What's more, it doesn't call itself “metaphysics” by accident. Freud's Metapsychology was also a physics of the mind. In this sense, it is obvious that I cannot continue to philosophize “as if nothing had...
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Escape from Alphaville : Introducing Paul Virilio's City of Panic
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 331–338.
Published: 01 November 2005
... mentioning. Paul Virilio, “The Accident in Time,” City of Panic: Elsewhere Begins Here (2005) ALPHA-60 (A disembodied supercomputer): Your name is written “Ivan Johnson,” but it is pronounced “Lemmy Caution,” Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville...
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A New Justice, a New Watchword: On Alphonso Lingis’s Irrevocable
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...). Does love not hark back to another reality or yearn for the outer zone? Lingis recounts the story of Michael and Kelly. Kelly died in a car accident twenty-two months after their wedding. Michael takes off, riding his bicycle for thousands of miles while pondering the “irrevocable loss of Kelly” again...
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Opening Up
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... both too early and too late to grasp any now-point of time, that I am never a subject in the philosophical sense of the term. It is, then, no accident that Lyotard should, a little ironically, apologize at the beginning of the penultimate section of “Foundation Crisis” for the fact...
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