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Perfect Bodies and Digital Influencers: Gendered Ruptures of Performance on Social Media in Brazil
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Both forms of self-construction are appropriated by consumer culture and are perceived as authentic, reinforcing individualistic agency in a neoliberal context. But what happens when a fitness influencer accidently leaks the information that she underwent a liposuction procedure? Or when a “body...
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The Recursive Mode: Space, Time, and the Hyper-Commodification of Culture
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... that although increasingly reflecting the prime dynamics of industrialization, were also authentically “new” and “diverse” in that they could gestate in spaces and times not already colonized and commodified by capital. Since at least the late 1970s, these spaces and times have been capitalized; indeed capital...
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Why Look at Toy Animals?: Play, Protopolitics, and the Postnatural
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., or more accurately precede , familiar cultural-political binaries of authentic and inauthentic, depth and surface, knowledge and illusion, truth and lies, belief and fetishism, human and nonhuman, natural and synthetic. These other facets include dynamics of the technics of imagination...
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A Tale of Two ’68s: The “Politics of Boredom” in France and Italy
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of boredom”—the former represented here by Debord’s situationism, and the latter by Negri’s autonomism. Situationism is rooted in Hegelian Marxism and the concept of alienation, and sees boredom as a mode of subjective disaffection stemming from the capitalistic repression of “authentic” human qualities...
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Care and Carelessness in the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler's Three Conversions and Their Accompanying Heideggers
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
... denies the role of technics in the opening of the possibility of authentic time; 2) as a thinker of the “they” who corrects Simondon's inability to think collective disindividuation while being himself unable to think a genuine collective individuation process; 3) the later Heidegger who indeed...
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The Scouring of Wellywood: Brand Affiliated Protests in the Wake of the Hobbit Law
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Ian Williams Abstract This article uses the work of brand theorists and New Zealand–based cultural critics to examine the circumstances that created the “Hobbit Law,” a New Zealand law aimed at busting local film industry unions. Branding logics created a struggle for authenticity around...
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The “Public Inquisitor” As Media Celebrity
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 93–110.
Published: 01 March 2010
... discourses of integrity and authenticity associated with practices of advocacy, and suggests that their extension beyond the formal political realm into media genres traditionally excluded from the established political domain might work to consolidate the public inquisitor as a discursive figure. Therefore...
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Ghosts of Place
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 March 2007
... is not at all clearly presented. It seems to be a call for complete authenticity of every item that can bring “intensity and feeling” (p. 155). Schofield gets side tracked into a discussion of the site of the 1944 Nazi massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane (France) – is the car that was left in the square the real car...
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Baudrillard, Postfeminism, and the Image Makeover
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 March 2014
... makeover program How to Look Good Naked —a show that aims to celebrate “real” female bodies and “authentic” femininity by transforming participants who are unhappy about their bodies into self-confident women. Make-over programs like How to Look Good Naked are symptomatic of the inexorable recycling...
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Pale Face, Red Mask: Racial Ambiguity and the Imitation of “American Indian” Facial Expressions
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 319–338.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to confront the inadequacies and crisis-prone nature of racial stereotype. It also exposes the ability of colonialism not merely to police the boundaries of racial authenticity but also to actually produce the best examples of “racial type.” This is what fascinates me about Grey Owl (1888–1938). As Francis...
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Three Works on the Politics and Possibilities of Hip-Hop Now
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in Los Angeles. We know about assassinations and aberrant white novelties like the Beasties and Eminem. We are versed in its debates over authenticity and purpose. We know how large some labels loom and how resonant and how dubious, too, is the moniker “underground.” We can draw links between old and new...
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Teh Internet Is Serious Business: On the Deep Vernacular Web and Its Discontents
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 214–232.
Published: 01 July 2020
... to, and which stand in stark contrast with the dominant “face culture” that emerged on the mainstream surface web of platforms from the mid-2000s onward. 2 Together, these axioms provide a kind of field guide for the DVW, as they deal with the difficulty of deriving intention or authenticity from online...
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Being-Towards-Death and the Simulacrum of Death: Heidegger and Baudrillard
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 345–358.
Published: 01 November 2011
... (translation modified). 14. Heidegger 1978: 352 . 13. Heidegger 1978: 353 . 12. Heidegger 1978: 311 . 11. However, the selfsameness of the Self existing authentically, of which Heidegger speaks, has nothing to do with the metaphysical conception of the identity of the self...
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In Defense of Decolonial Philistinism: Jameson, Adorno, and the Redemption of the Hatred of Art
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the desert of decolonial philistinism lying ahead at worst, I take such destructive cultural acts to be motivated by a mostly intuitive insight into the irreparable guilt of art as a social activity, even of the critical or authentic kind, as well as a desire to expose the latter. No matter how solidarious...
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The Populist Prince: Returning to Charles's Vision of Britain
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 373–395.
Published: 01 November 2024
...] establishes a Nation,” states the executive order, “draws people and commerce, makes the people love their native country . . . [and] aims at eternity” (Trump 2020b ). Staking a claim to cultural authenticity that echoes Charles's architectural pronouncements, discussing buildings in strikingly similar...
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Profanating Gastro-Normativity: Exploring the Nonhuman Materiality of Making and Tasting Wine in the Natural Wine Movement
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and Moran 2001; Lewis et al. 2002 ; Banks and Sharpe 2006 ) have dismantled the assumption of terroir as a spontaneous coming together of land, grape, and humans. Terroir has been shown as an invention consistent with national rhetorics of authenticity, conservation, and rural tradition ( Barham 2003...
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Concepts of Simultaneity and Community in the Crowd-Sourced Video Diary Life in a Day
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2014
... as a guarantee of greater authenticity also. This notion of authenticity is particularly important for documentary projects involving self-reflection, such as Life in a Day . Second, the recent advent of instant video sharing (e.g., YouTube) has added yet another layer of simultaneity to this already...
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Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On: History on Vivan Sundaram's Boat-Works
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 359–384.
Published: 01 November 2009
... on discourses of tradition, cultural authenticity, and heritage in the public domain in the period after liberalization. Not only discourses of historiography, but also those of art-history and archaeology (involving techniques of verification, categorization, and the survey) were mobilized ( Sambrani 2005: 23...
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The Vanishing Native: Torture and Settler Colonialism in Transnational French Cinema
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... “an Algerian language coach . . . to ensure that the actors, including Mortensen, used the right accent and vocabulary when speaking Arabic” ( Dale 2014 ). This makes the authentication of Daru as a settler solidly grounded and persuasive. Conversations in Arabic were also included in L’ennemi intime...
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Class Struggle and Displacement: Slavoj Žižek and Film Theory
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
... are not the ideas of those who rule: “the ruling ideology, in order to be operative has to incorporate a series of features in which the exploited/dominated majority will be able to recognize its authentic longings. In short, every hegemonic universality has to incorporate at least two particular contents...
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