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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Ingrid M. Hoofd This article suggests that the humanist aporia, which is productively at work in the Indymedia project, has become a main ingredient of technological acceleration under neoliberalism. The article draws out Indymedia's response and relation to what it will call “speed-elitism...
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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 (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 (2015) 11 (3): 412–416.
Published: 01 November 2015
... an awareness of the inadequacy of language to convey the overwhelming incomprehensibility of the traumatic event, resulting thus in a set of representational aporias that can only be approximated through multiple catachrestic detours. As such, catachresis in Kincaid’s work comes to function as the only trope...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and theoretical physics (Albert Einstein, Henri Bergson, Werner Heisenberg) bear explicitly on the status and value to be accorded to scientific theory. Attention then focuses on the aporia that formal or semanticosyntactic systems run up against when they attempt to fence off for themselves an area...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 300–302.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of having been a stranger. The Jews of Europe, you maintain, “were the first to experience the harrowing dilemmas, ineradicable ambivalence and indeed awesome aporias of modern life” (6). Here you confront a dimension of being, and of existential being in the European world, that is deeper and darker than...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the maintenance worker is routinely effaced, only to appear upon command. It is a fundamental aporia of the “smart” city, where automation does not make cleaning, waste collection, or repairs go away but conceals essential workers from the daily life of a privileged class. 11 Tasked with bringing increased...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., for example, avers, “No one is in doubt that the impact of the Analytic of the Sublime from the Critique of the Power of Judgment played a decisive role in Lyotard's thought. It is no longer a question of resolving ‘politically’ the contradictions and aporias unearthed in The Differend , but rather...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... their lifetime individuals are embedded in ever-changing immune systems to prevent them from collapsing under a constitutive abundance, called addiction. Immune systems decline over time. They engender their own aporias and become auto-immune. In an article 20 on urban culture Sloterdijk explores...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 263–272.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., cultural, and political significance? This is not, however, to uncritically celebrate the long 1968 or to ignore its limitations or aporias. Indeed, as several essays in this issue make clear, both the philosophy and praxis of 1968 suffered for their inadequacies, while their progressive ends have...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... be understood here as a movement or school of thought, much less a scholarly “fad.” It is the name Lyotard gives to what he takes to be the present state of the “foundation crisis” in the mathematical sciences and particularly the aporias these sciences have encountered in attempting to establish their own...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
...” (2001a: 307) in those of second generation ones (e.g. Habermas) – has converged despite itself with what used to be called a conservative standpoint. Pragmatic paradoxes and aporias have become the modus operandi of contemporary politicians and postenlightened philosophers alike. At worst, philosophical...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., a relation that forms the central aporia of politics and cultural encounters. 2 One could argue, with some justification, that paranoia's clinical ambiguity makes it of limited usefulness in analyzing political phenomena. Paranoia as a clinical term emerged within the nineteenth century impulse...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... for recognition through inclusive dialogue and debate, the sublime acts of philosophical education call for misrecognition, interruption, and forgetting. One focuses on the circulation of opinions while the other turns inward to look at the very aporias of thinking itself, to the silences and gaps. Because...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... In this regard, Cusanus is the source of what might be termed Virilio’s “Gothic conceptuality,” a conceptuality in which we can discern in outline a conception of being as light and an illuminist conception of modernity that was then in the process of emerging out of the political and intellectual aporias...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2014
...: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time , Lampert describes simultaneity in terms of its dialectic with delay. Inspired by Jacque Derrida’s and Gilles Deleuze’s rehabilitation of “delay,” Lampert concludes: “Total synchronization is impossible—it is delayed. Delay is not an epistemic aporia; it is the real...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the infinite protraction of the Kantian Idea, such a position fails to consider the temporality of deconstruction, and hence its politics: the aporia of the event that demands a decision is endlessly singular, so that it happens in each moment – now . In more general terms, this failure singularizes...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 206–225.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... . . . TB: All the antiutilitarian movements, which replay this question once more, perhaps because this is a fundamental aporia in the social sciences, perhaps because this is always going to be with us as a problem, understood not as an obstacle, but as an engine of reflection. PV: Yes...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 July 2010
... the aporias that beset any critical discourse trying to decide how to conceptualize human events and phenomena and evaluate their historical development. His critical activism emerges out of a selective adoption of the writings and other mnemotechnical records available to him in his experience...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 128–147.
Published: 01 March 2023
...—one that does not revolve around discrete individuals and environments, and one that is thereby not hindered by either-or scenarios and ways of thinking. Put differently, can the embodied history of trees help us to move beyond some of the aporias that continue to challenge environmental ethics? Let...
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