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Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... And this has to be done in a context where what I call the cultural industries – which attempt to harness attention and in fact destroy that attention – use these technologies in a way that produces a lot of stupidity, much lowering of the level of intelligence, of the level of sublimation, of the level...
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in/Visibility and the Securitization of Migration: Shaping Publics through Border Enforcement on Islands
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 184–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and carrying out detention in places between states. These geographic shifts of border enforcement are tied to the securitization of migration and require a degree of complicity with violence in peripheral zones. The shifting of resources offshore serves, in part, to call public attention away from other sites...
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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
...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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The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Margaret Hillenbrand Over the last couple of decades, workers in China’s vast and poorly regulated construction industry have increasingly turned to suicidal performance as a radical means of securing wage arrears. These so-called suicide shows have drawn attention as expressions of escalating...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2014
... experience, and relationship with me-dia. It analyzes the digital gadget’s role in the reorientation of the broadcast ecology around personalized media worlds and experiences, arguing that its mode of play represents an integration of the life, activities, bodies, and attention of the individual that extends...
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The Negative Abyss: Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the horror of contemporary media culture. Finally, the article reflects on Virilio’s work on technodesertification and disappearance and Stiegler’s theory of the destruction of the delay of desire in the immediacy of drive through attention capture to show how screen culture annihilates the thickness...
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The Care of the Possible
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 339–354.
Published: 01 November 2016
...; posthumanism that recognizes universal entanglements; attention to the role technology plays in all spheres of inquiry; and, increasingly, sensors that produce a surplus of sensibility. This article argues that open-endedness, or possibility, has to be coupled with a palliative care brought to dwindling...
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The Cultural Politics of Queuing Tape
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 389–403.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Adam Sharr Queuing systems—the fields of posts and tapes in railway stations, shops, theme parks, and museums where people line up to queue—are an increasingly dominant spatial phenomenon, familiar across the globe. However, little attention has been paid to the ways in which these queuing systems...
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Art Before the Sublime: The Libidinal Economy up against the Pacific Wall
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 158–169.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Five Car Stud , suggesting that attention to this aspect of Lyotard's writings might allow us to avoid some of the impasses created by the emphasis upon the sublime aspect of aesthetic experience. Reading Pacific Wall in terms of the problems set out in Lyotard's Libidinal Economy , I contend that one...
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Accidentology: A Critical Assessment of Paul Virilio's Political Economy of Speed
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
... accident, a catastrophic incident that is experienced simultaneously and universally. While Virilio is supported for drawing attention to the technologically mediated accidents that threaten hyperconnected societies, his method and focus are found wanting. His preference for suggestion over qualification...
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Living with the Virtual: Baudrillard, Integral Reality, and Second Life
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that offers to individuals a means by which they can “escape” from their given realities by creating their own. However, the article also draws critical attention to the economic dimension of Second Life , and the disruptive, divisive and unstable nature of the virtual world (scamming, terrorism, social...
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Luck, Power, Corruption, Democracy? Judging Arts Prizes
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 July 2005
...John Street Arts prizes have become an increasingly prominent part of the cultural landscape, influencing not only the careers of individual artists but also the policies of cultural industries and cultural institutions. Despite this, relatively little detailed attention has been given to the arts...
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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
...Bob Hanke This essay develops a technocultural studies approach to political elections and polling. First, I shift our attention from polling as a cultural form to developments in polling technology that are transfiguring this form. I then examine the production and circulation of political opinion...
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The Intellectual Genealogies and Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony Bennett
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 161–182.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and reshaped especially by Williams, Gramsci, Bourdieu, and Foucault. Taking the concept of governmentality, he distinguishes his position sharply from the dualistic tendency of traditional cultural studies. His revisionist project is to bring our attention to the relations between culture and governmental...
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Tense Borders: Culture, Identity, and Anxiety in New Zealand's Interweaving Discourses of Immigration and Genetic Modification
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 359–380.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Priya Kurian; Debashish Munshi Immigration and genetic modification (GM) are two contentious sociocultural issues that have attracted considerable academic, political, and public attention in New Zealand. Although seemingly disparate, the discourses around the two issues share common anxieties...
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Pursuit in Paris
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 July 2008
... to contemplate, in light of Baudrillard’s death in March 2007, the posthumous meaning of his cultural and theoretical endeavors and his efforts to enhance our understanding and appreciation of visual culture. Attention is paid to the central theme of the sign, both literally and theoretically...
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News, Celebrity, and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Michael Jackson Verdict
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of circulation and feedback of information have increased dramatically. These tendencies have given rise to an effect I term vortextuality, whereby major news stories have the power to dominate the news media to such an extent that all attention appears, temporarily, to be directed towards them. Editorials...
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Introduction to Bernard Stiegler, “The National Front and Ultraliberalism” (Extract from Pharmacologie du Front National , 2013)
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 119–129.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the conjunction of desire and knowledge, and the irreducibility of the tendency for these to be undermined by what he will call the negative pharmacological side of technics. In Pharmacologie du Front national , he draws attention to a third dimension of the pharmakon : its tendency to lead to the designation...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of a world —perhaps not the world as such, but the world as it is being made and unmade by the spatial, temporal, racial, linguistic, technological, and imperial drives of hypermodern capitalism, particularly its global, financialized, and algorithmic forms. Scholars of political economy have drawn attention...
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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
... and material conditions of capital as a means of leverage over oneself and others to maintain a status quo. Attendantly, this article draws attention to the centrality of liquidity/discipline to the conditions of indebtedness within financial capital, highlighting three foundational developments...
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