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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., 811). Every generous citizen has to become an artist, as Joseph Beuys once proposed (SIII: 811). Like Foucault, Sloterdijk favors creativity over autonomy. If aestheticization is needed for enduring monstrosity, is Foucault’s proposal of an aesthetics of existence then an option? Can we recognize...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 51–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... is comprehended and examined, for instance, in Continental philosophy, anthropology, phenomenology, and aesthetic criticism, it can also, more accurately, be taken to signify a distinctive and recently defined field of academic investigation. In this second usage, its contemporary origins can be traced...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
... in which the actual is capable of action only if it can convert its actuality into virtuality, that is to free itself for a future other than its actual present. Critical to this political project is work at the aesthetic level of media and communications technologies. Through communication between...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Derek R. Ford While the general intellect continues to provide a rich resource for understanding post-Fordism and for theorizing resistance, there remains a neglected aesthetic dimension to the general intellect and the role that art can play in resistance based on it. This article develops...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 246–248.
Published: 01 July 2021
... avant-garde, is both hopeful that art can become continuous with politics, but also wary that politics may be rendered merely aesthetic. In Foster's distinction between relational and ethical aesthetics, we might read an echo of Benjamin: the aestheticization of politics brings the interactions between...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and deconstructed through aesthetic means as well as the political stances of particular films to the narratives through which particular national identities are still being written. Alternatively they have been used to explore how cinema invents discourses that function as the basis for collective enunciations...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... by David Bennett . In Textes dispersés I: Esthétique et théorie de l'art/Miscellaneous Texts I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art . vol. 4, bk. 1, of Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists , edited by Parret Herman , 200 – 223 . Leuven : Leuven University Press .. Lyotard Jean-François...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 144–157.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Vlad Ionescu Jean-François Lyotard's figural is read in relation to discourse . The figural introduces in aesthetics a sense of cultivating those moments of intensity that resist and escape all regulating power, be it linguistic discourse or the order of the conscious or political constraints...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
...)communicative communist pedagogy that is oriented against communicative capitalism. We show that there is a taut connection between capitalism and democracy that consists of a shared logic, pedagogy, and aesthetic that revolves around communication, inclusion, and transparency. Without grasping this aesthetic...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 275–280.
Published: 01 July 2018
... media is a quasi-spiritual and maybe even Hegelian investment in aesthetics as the substrate with which to think and experience a world as an event of history. The contours of aesthetics as sensation and perception are in dialectical struggle with the materiality of media whose elementary particles...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Curtis’s recent body of work diagnostically. It argues that, quite apart from any promise of escape or deliverance, the aesthetic form of his work actively inhabits the rhythms and vectors of contemporary media. For Curtis, the media-technological conditions of the twenty-first century provoke a crisis...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... labor unrest in China, and thus have mostly been read through a political science prism. But these displays, precisely in their dramatic dimension, also open themselves up to a culturalist, even aesthetic analysis: they braid together mixed threads, from the Chinese tradition of suicide as righteous...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sarah Hamblin This essay argues that the conditions of contemporary finance capitalism have exhausted the revolutionary potential of political modernist aesthetics. The global ’68 conjuncture generated many of the fundamental concepts that continue to underscore how contemporary radical film...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that in the face of totalitarianism, a literature of intimacy opens a realm of human experience that is outside the control of the regime. Because it carries a memory of joy, it is radically other to the ethos of the regime. Later, in The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), Marcuse returns to the role of aesthetics when...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Ryan Bishop; John Phillips In an attempt to rethink the boundaries that conventionally determine the Cold War period and its fiction, we examine theoretical, historical, and aesthetic spheres that both precede and exceed the Cold War years. We focus on works by H.G. Wells and Richard Powers...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 March 2022
... communication in relation to luxury in Africa. The author uses three magazine covers featuring beloved Black South African women celebrities to illustrate three aesthetics of Black feminine success: glitter, shine, and glow. Visually, the three patinas are linked and on the surface might seem indistinguishable...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the very act of writing. Metzger’s works are discussed as aesthetic responses to the “new categorical imperative” of Adorno, who addresses art’s failure in light of Auschwitz by pointing to aporias that constitute the inescapable condition of “barbarism.” This essay suggests that Metzger’s aesthetic...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 174–197.
Published: 01 July 2018
... For the aestheticization of politics under fascist regimes more generally, consider also Benjamin 1968 : 243: “The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” Benjamin’s theory rings true, especially when one considers the seduction and stagecraft of dictators like Adolf Hitler...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 112–135.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the aerial view, and why drone ethics are intertwined with drone aesthetics. Focusing on the photojournalism of Rasmus Degnbol and Rocco Rorandelli, it argues that, while humanitarian drone images are becoming increasingly mundane and unremarkable in news media, there is an aporia immanent to such images...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of Live 8, but traces this back through Make Poverty History, Jubilee 2000, and Live Aid; and it makes contrasts with another example of music’s use for political ends: Rock Against Racism. What we are concerned to show is how Geldof’s role was constituted both by the political and aesthetic ideology...
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