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The Fantasy of the Elite Force Aviator: On Dolls and Desire
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2009
... can only be fully understood if it is viewed alongside a consideration of the ideological function of fantasy, especially as it is set out in the work of Slavoj Žižek. The article focuses on one particular piece of mimesis, namely the “Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush 12-inch Action Figure...
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Figures of Unwork and Ethics of Care: Between Knowing How to Live and Knowing How to Write
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Both the figure of Bazlen and the supposed truth about the motivation behind his actions, however, are presented as always inevitably plural and partial, mediated by the views, faulty memories, and preoccupations of the various interlocutors interviewed by the researcher. As it becomes apparent through...
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in Collective Crafting in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Journey with Ruangrupa from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts to Documenta Fifteen in Kassel
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 18 Ade Darmawan, banner of Haji Mohamed Suharto (president of Indonesia, 1967–98), action during protests against Suharto regime, Dam Square, Amsterdam, 1998.
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Herculean Unproductivity in Pasolini's La ricotta and Teorema
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
... mechanisms that compel workers to work. Recuperating Jean-François Lyotard's concept of acinema, this inquiry suggests that Pasolini creates scenes that oppose the capitalist work ethic through formal techniques associated with immobility and contingency. It deploys Hannah Arendt's concept of action...
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The Hurt Locker : Cinematic Addiction, “Critique,” And the War on Terror
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
... docudramas such as United 93 (Greengrass, 2006) and international arthouse films such as Ahlaam (Al-Daradji, 2005) and Babel (Iñárittu, 2006) to action films such as Body of Lies (Scott, 2008). See Bennett (forthcoming) for an analysis of docudramatic representations of the war on terror. 2...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as a small contribution to a giant, coordinated action. (Pers. comm., April 3, 2017) Figure 4 Deborah Frizzell, Women’s March in New York , 2017. Digital photograph, dimensions variable Figure 4. Deborah Frizzell, Women’s March in New York, 2017. Digital photograph, dimensions variable...
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Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 3 The Democratic Youth Forum India (DYFI) offices of Fort Kochi. The DYFI is the youth wing and the largest youth organization in India and is part of the Communist Party of India, which is India's left-wing Marxist political party. The DYFI opposes economic policies of the International
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Arendt in Hong Kong: Occupy, Participatory Art, and Place-Making
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 155–172.
Published: 01 July 2016
... century, and her most important contribution is her belief in politics as action and not as thinking, despite—or perhaps because of—her deep reflections on Western philosophy. Arendt believes that true political deeds are not ideological products but rather acts of making that open up the future, a belief...
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A Multispecies Red-Light District for Amsterdam: A Propositional Image
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 155–165.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Satellite Images. Northern Europe focus. © NASA. Figure 1 NASA—Black Marble Satellite Images. Northern Europe focus. © NASA. Given the lack of action by government agencies to deal with the widespread increase of such anthropogenic noise, as concerned citizens and artists equipped with acute visual...
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Dis-Location/re-Location: “Aloerosa”
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 317–328.
Published: 01 November 2005
... in the series is accelerated, visually fast-forwarding the implied acculturation processes Figure 4 . Figure 4 Aloerosa: In-sert (detail) Figure 4. Aloerosa: In-sert (detail) Horticulturally, a graft's purpose is to cultivate new orders, through actions of cutting, severing, transplanting...
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Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 136–154.
Published: 01 March 2024
... collective Leve and the organization Top Manta, a Barcelona collective and fashion design manufacturer that creates communal and legal opportunities for migrants who sell their wares on blankets in public squares. Figure 7 Fragment of blanket 2, “Africa as the origin of humanity.” Courtesy of Flavio...
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Interrogating Innovation: Silence, Citizenship, and the Figure of the Hacker
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 354–371.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to incorporate an awareness of that which cannot be articulated, and our private processes of reflection, alongside the rush to discuss, decide, and take action. Finally, thinking with silence can highlight the value of what I call sitting with, or alongside, other entities. The figure of the hacker is one...
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Organizing Networks: Notes on Collaborative Constitution, Translation, and the Work of Organization
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 237–264.
Published: 01 July 2009
...) production of (political) subjectivity. Because such efforts necessarily attend to the status of a principle of the actionable, this essay suggests that the question of a “beyond” as it relates to a politics of the actionable calls for a conceptual elaboration of “organized networks.” The essay argues...
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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
...” (Nietzsche, Vico, Joyce) and the mythic figure of Trickster as formulated in anthropology and psychoanalysis (Radin, Hyde, Jung). Specifically, the political culture of globalization is cast in terms of the reconfiguration of the archaic and an intensification of myth (Benjamin). An examination...
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Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Language, and Commodification as Culture
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2017
... or potential” (115–16). In so many words, the figures that inhabit our memes are a farce. Our means of communicating online do not subvert capital, they proliferate its power to capture our desires and actions. Functionally speaking, a tangible difference between a meme’s use value and its exchange value...
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Playgrounds and Bombsites: Postwar Britain's Ruined Landscapes
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
Published: 01 November 2013
... by veiling the anxiety of war and the continued threat of catastrophe ( 2010 ). By turning their back on the recent historical past and palming off any troubling doubts about the project of endless expansive progress onto troublesome figures like the delinquent, those invested in the future-as-progress could...
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United Society of Believers
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 381–392.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Acrylic, glitter on canvas. 60 × 84 inches. While my desire to figure out “what painting is good for” will probably never be fully satisfied, my answers to that question have become much less didactic and more nuanced as I continue to make art. One thing is certain however: my interrogation...
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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
... ). The anonymous masses, suffused in a revolutionary red, can be dimly seen raising their faces up to the powers that be, their arms holding placards, their mouths calling for action. In contrast, the foreground is occupied by a single figure: a masked protester. The protester's identity is almost entirely...
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A Roundtable on Collectivism: Building Popular Power from within and across Geopolitical Souths
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 392–408.
Published: 01 November 2023
... frankly neglects it and concedes it to right-wing forces. The Highlander Center is a school, and since 1932 we've been bringing people together across differences, having forbidden conversations. Literally we have been trying to figure out how to build these multiracial, multicultural, multisector...
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The Redemption of the Real
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., disbelief (materialism, objectivity) folds onto belief and the possibility of action emerges from the determined reality of inaction. To paraphrase Peter Sloterdijk (1987) , we are able to believe and act even though, or perhaps precisely because, we do not believe and cannot possibly act. It is also...
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