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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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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
...] would approach a certain ‘philosophy of art’” ( Lyotard 2009 : 15). Thus as singular and personal 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...
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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 (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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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... based on the immediacy of the emotive—the “tele-affect.” The “squared horizon” is a way of envisioning the function of the screen, including multiple screens, in matters of war, conflict, and everyday life. The contributions to this special section 5 invite us to think of the “squared horizon...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 51–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
...,” or “intergenerational” trauma? Similarly, does the broader sensory scope of the cinematic medium endow it with a heightened capacity for eliciting such responses; or, conversely, might the uniquely immersive experience of solitary reading carry the potential for equally powerful affective reactions? 11...
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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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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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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in human activity, which must include thinking, and which, if ever possible, would take place in common among all humans. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 COVID-19 racism affects rest reparation #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus or #IAmNotAVirus: those were the hashtags that went viral...
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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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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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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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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. In these scenarios, more-than-human caring becomes a zero-sum game. Ethics becomes moralistic...
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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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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
> Cultural Politics
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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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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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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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
... by dialoguing with affect studies, suggesting that the subversive potential of nonsense/non-sense may offer a glimmer of hope for political engagement and the expansion of social imaginaries. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 White Paper protests nonsense activism...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 162–183.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to replenish the cognitive, affective, and/or communicative energies strained by the current crisis of social reproduction. References Abbate Carolyn . 2016 . “ Sound Object Lessons .” Journal of the American Musicological Society 69 , no. 3 : 793 – 830 . Adorno Theodor . 2002...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Geoffrey Bennington This essay reads Lyotard's “Argumentation and Presentation” as a transitional text that clarifies the passage from the phrase-based analysis of The Differend to the late work on infancy and affect. It is argued that in it Lyotard continues to develop very general questions about...
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