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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Erik Bordeleau Terror from the Air , Sloterdijk Peter translated by Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran , London : distributed by MIT Press for Semiotext(e) , 2009 , 111 pages, $14.95/£9.95, ISBn 978-1-58435-072-9 © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2010 Terror from...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 7 San Genaro Up in the Air 2 , 2007. Oil stick on linen, 52 × 72 in. Courtesy of the artist More
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
...James Dutton Abstract This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 149–178.
Published: 01 July 2009
... have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, which was used as a clandestine detention and extermination center during the dictatorship (1976–83...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 177–199.
Published: 01 July 2023
... by Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire and a discussion of the Royal College of Art's architecture program's studio “Something in the Air: Politics of the Atmosphere,” the article focuses on framing of “problem spaces” (Celia Lury's term) through studio briefs as well as experimental...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicole Starosielski This article documents how thermal manipulation is critical to the transformation of the earth’s raw materials into media and to maintaining those materials as media. Through an examination of thermal practices, including mineral extraction, the use of air-conditioning in media...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 July 2006
... is based on a rendering of a place, almost always viewed from the air, which has been targeted by US bombers. I choose to make these drawings by hand rather than to employ photographic or other mechanical means in the hope that people will take their time with them. This project is an attempt to provide...
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Published: 01 July 2006
Plate 3: Haiti , 1959 (for Aristide, Stan Goff, and my father), “The US military mission in Haiti, to train the troops of noted dictator Francois Duvalier, used its air, sea and ground power to smash an attempt to overthrow Duvalier by a small group of Haitians aided by some Cubans and other More
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of controlling protesting crowds as well as of conditioning the atmosphere: the “chemical fog of tear gas acts as an insidious form of air-conditioning that changes the physiochemical composition of the atmosphere, and acts as an instrument of social conditioning” (Furuhata 2022 : 133). Hong Kong police...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 November 2023
...; Jepperson 1999 ). The sonobuoys or hydrophones were originally designed to pick up oceanic sounds as changes in oceanic pressure, while the acoustic sensors in OIW had to pick up changes in wavelength in the air. Since sound travels faster in water than in air, a sound wave in water exerts a pressure sixty...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 374–391.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the early 1970s. The state claimed that forests were being lost to the swidden agriculture and opium production practiced by forest-dwelling Indigenous communities of northern Thailand. Instead of establishing open-air robusta plantations, Bhumibol advocated shade-grown Arabica ( Coffea arabica ), which...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that creates a continuous shower of diamonds. In “Sky River,” geoengineering is used to counter growing drought. Snow is melted and evaporated to create an aerial river of moist air, which is then tracked and seeded with silver iodide to fall as rain—but then the ensuing silver pollution kills fish...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 512–515.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. References Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo . 2007 . La historia de Abuelas, 30 años de búsqueda 1977–2007 . Buenos Aires : Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Editorial . Agamben Giorgio . (1995) 2006 . Homo sacer: El poder soberano y...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 11 Shade is a necessary but scarce resource. To meet the financial needs of transitioning into coffee production, coffee farm owners have historically converted shaded, forested areas into open-air coffee plantations to maximize space for coffee shrubs. More recently, however, cultivators More
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Music—“just a sweet pressure of the air” 1 But for music to once again turn into air after two and half millennia of notes and six hundred years of sheet music...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... clusters, using cold air as a commodified requirement of their localization. In the case of the unaddressed urgent issue of hot air, the problem, far from being solved, is simply mitigated by a shift farther north, toward the Arctic circle. Oulu in Finland and Västerbotten in Sweden are good examples...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... trade (Donovan and Bonney 2006 ). Indeed, attention was sometimes drawn to the potential of high-speed air transport to also “mobilize” undesirable organisms (such as viruses) across vast distances, in a rapid and potentially problematic manner. Historically, as James Meek ( 2020 ) notes...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 384–390.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the pedestrian . . . A modern art for the masses—at least for those in the Third Reich entitled to buy VWs—culminated in the so-called cathedral of light, created in 1934 by the later minister of armaments using 130 flak lights (a significant part of Göring’s “strategic air force reserve”) assembled...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 485–497.
Published: 01 November 2024
... creating a particular zone of sensing with an interest in how air moves ( fig. 6 ) and the sort of acoustic signatures that were later used in the artistic installation, too. Figure 5 Asturian Mountain cattle (Bos taurus) at the location of the wind park and location of the prior Digital terrain...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 98–109.
Published: 01 March 2016
... coincided with the launch of Air America Radio in 2004, which brought the kind of overheated energy to left-wing talk radio that had been a staple of the right. With hosts such as Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, and Rachel Maddow, Air America’s shows, much like Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert...
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