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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
... – like those of the symbolic, digital signifiers they accompany – are impossibly remote. In either case, what is highlighted is the incapacity of mere signifiers to channel anything like an authentic sense of the affective and somatic character of combat to today's reader. As I have noted, however...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... with instructions for negotiating the functional utilities of consciousness’s mechanisms as situation and as event. This kinedramatic digital world ( Virilio 1995 ) produces affective modalities for subjectivity to inhabit and at the same time seeds knowledge of the potential of a state of unreadiness to hand...
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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
...Robert M. Bednar This article explores affect and memory at roadside car crash memorials within the context of what Achille Mbembe calls “necropolitics”: the performance of power to determine who legitimately can kill both persons and the memory of persons. By analyzing the ritualized performance...
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Imagining the Nation as a “Web” of Animals: Affective Entanglements between Animality and (Nation)alism
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
... with affect theory to complicate the current understandings on the relationships between animality, affect, and nationalism. A focus on affect, the author argues, can open up a line of inquiry that is invisible to our current accounts on the relationships between animality and nationalism by demonstrating how...
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Toward an Affective Political Ecology of Obesity: Mediating Biological and Social Aspects
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 346–366.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Emma-Jayne Abbots; Karin Eli; Stanley Ulijaszek This article argues for an affective approach to obesity that destabilizes the conceptual boundaries between the biological and the social aspects of food, eating, and fatness. Its approach foregrounds visceral experience, attends to food both inside...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 313–322.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Christine Berberich; Neil Campbell; Robert Hudson This essay examines, in Ben Highmore's words, the implications of “a materialist turn towards the immaterial, towards affect, towards thinglyness, the senses” and how this might be determined by “the social world that produced them.” In viewing...
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Being Affected
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
... as Lyotard's responses are—and it is this that makes them such affecting testaments to a lifelong engagement with art, and such effective testaments to the capacity of painting to affect us—it is nevertheless necessary to ask about the significance of this choice to approach a philosophy of art predominantly...
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Modeling Affective Labor: On Terry Richardson’s Photography
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 58–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and immaterial labor in their evidencing of the affective labor on the part of the photographer himself. This critical commentary, the first such academic writing on Richardson, explores his work in these contexts and considers Richardson’s return to the figure (over abstraction) as evidencing and exploring...
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Objective Breathing: Peter Sloterdijk's Atmospheric Mediation
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the medial willingness to perceive or “figure” the air becomes a critical, everyday necessity. When Sloterdijk attributes the spread of “affective epidemics” to mass-media technologies, he draws attention to how airborne transmission is a symptom of breathing the same air, which, by affecting and altering...
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Get Unstuck!: Pandemic Positivity Imperatives and Self-Care for Women
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... but also through visual, embodied, and affective means and through an emphasis on developing new social practices—from holding one's body differently, to keeping gratitude journals, to cultivating a new virtual persona for online work meetings. The article highlights a profound paradox: in times...
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Decolonizing Ecomedia
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., from materials extraction and industrial production to energy use and recycling, these advances in ecocriticism have begun to address the differential experiences of affected populations. This essay looks at the “environmentalism of the poor” with specific reference to indigenous peoples affected...
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The Cultural Politics of Fish and Humans: A More-Than-Human Habitus of Consumption
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 November 2014
... this to fruition, an affective oceanic habitus needs to be mobilized. Drawing on cultural references to the entanglement of humans and oceans, this article attempts to model what such affective habitus might entail. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 more-than-human oceanic affective habitus practices...
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The Neoliberal Subject of Value: Measuring Human Capital in Information Economies
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Niels van Doorn In this essay, I introduce the figure of the “neoliberal subject of value” to explore the affective ambiguities of what Tiziana Terranova has termed “free labor,” or the voluntary, unwaged, and exploited activities that generate the digital data, content, and connections central...
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Chinese School Lessons , first exhibited at Chan Hampe Galleries (Singapore...
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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 8–10 Chinese School Lessons , first exhibited at Chan Hampe Galleries (Singapore) in 2012, is a series that takes as its focus the Chinese school students’ activism and the educational reforms affecting Chinese medium schools in Singapore during the 1950s and 1960s. Courtesy
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Surviving the Ordinary: Telling Stories of Endurance under Capitalism Detached from Neoliberal Narrativity
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., personal responsibility, and free-market dynamics. The politics of everyday worlds interpreted through neoliberal storytelling fail to show the contested entanglements of affect and exhaustion that make up endurance under capitalism. The texts analyzed here present their subjects as nonsovereign...
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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
... that politicians get elected not just because of what they say, or how they say it, but when they say it. Within the accelerated serial mix of public opinion, stories, commentary, and events, political support and momentum were articulated with the politicization of affect to shape the outcome. While preelection...
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Wikination: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... politics is actually just another form of the liberalism of Habermas and Rawls that she positions her theory against. The article then explores the potential digital media hold for making affirmative, affective, hyperpolitical interventions in specific contents and singular situations. In particular...
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Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and the larger community for interaffective attunement. The atmospheric change unravels an attunement to possibilities opening to some people who throw themselves to be affected and push a situation into an event. In the second part, the essay analyzes how the collective climbing of Lion Rock, a mountain...
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The Condemnation of Hate and the Violence of the Status Quo
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Sebastian Althoff Abstract This article interrogates the tension between the way that the condemnation of hate performatively establishes and reinforces discursive and affective boundaries for public debates and the embrace of hate by anti-racist, abolitionist, feminist, and queer activists...
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“They Can Never Take it Away from You”: The Optimistic Cruelty of Student Loan Indebtedness
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... surrounding the Biden administration's conclusion of the federal student loan payment pause and demands for full student loan debt cancellation. Reading with Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism , it suggests that this impasse entails a relation of optimistic cruelty: the active infliction of the affective...
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