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From the Black Atlantic to Black-Scholes: Precursors of Spatial Capitalization
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of slave ships in the eighteenth century, and the Black-Scholes model of option pricing from the twentieth century. Maritime insurance rendered the unknown space of the ocean knowable and therefore profitable. By collecting information at Lloyds, merchants developed a map of threat within the Atlantic...
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The New Face of Global Hollywood: Black Hawk Down and the Politics of Meta-Sovereignty
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Debbie Lisle; Andrew Pepper This article uses Ridley Scott's 2001 blockbuster film Black Hawk Down to examine the claim that popular film is the “newest component of sovereignty.” While the topic of the film – the 1993 UN/US intervention in Somalia – lends itself to straightforward politicization...
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The History of the Black Box: The Clash of a Thing and Its Concept
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Philipp Von Hilgers The “black box” has become a common term for diverse kinds of opacities of modern society often at odds with values of enlightenment and transparency. Investigating the history of the black box one discovers that at a time when cybernetics was seen as the leading science...
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The Politics of Cool: Black Masculine Subjectivities in the Art of Donald Glover and Mohau Modisakeng
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Stella Viljoen Abstract Writing in 2004, bell hooks suggests that Black men respond to histories of patriarchal domination and emotional isolation through a “politics of cool.” She ties the notion of cool to the ability to be “real.” For her this is epitomized by the vulnerability of blues and jazz...
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Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 11 Black Gold , installation of pottery shards by Indian artist Vivan Sundaram at Aspinwall House. The terra-cotta fragments used within this installation are recovered from the archaeological site at Pattanam, the site of the flooded ancient seaport of Muziris. The landscape produced
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1 NASA—Black Marble Satellite Images. Northern Europe focus. © NASA.
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in When the Periphery Laughs: Humor and Locality in Contemporary Art from Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3 Mladen Miljanović, The Black Hole , 2016. Plaster objects. Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic Srpska, Banja Luka. Photograph by Drago Vejnović. Courtesy the artist.
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The Wiz Khalifa Controversy and Hip-Hop's Pablo Escobar Archives: Neoliberal Necroempowerment and Solidarity against the War on Drugs
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 241–260.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy was the first time an outcry about the depiction of Escobar was aimed at a US Black artist, particularly a rapper...
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Xyloid Sexuality: Dismantling the Human in Wangechi Mutu's Arboreal Collages
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... analyzes the significance of trees to Mutu's project of dismantling the human. Drawing from critical plant studies, forest ecology, cultural anthropology, and the mycological turn, it argues that Mutu's artworks forcefully reclaim the nonhuman as a site of Black expressive culture. These artworks blur...
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“This Quiet Revolution”: Alternative Modes of Study with the Experimental College at San Francisco State
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 315–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., including the first Black studies courses, at SF State. The EC offers inspiration for creating infrastructures of radical imagination and study. The EC appropriated resources—including spaces, money, teachers, credits, and technologies—for studying within, against, and beyond the normal university. The EC...
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Glitter, Shine, Glow: Patinas of Feminine Achievement in South African Celebrity Portraiture
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 March 2022
... communication in relation to luxury in Africa. The author uses three magazine covers featuring beloved Black South African women celebrities to illustrate three aesthetics of Black feminine success: glitter, shine, and glow. Visually, the three patinas are linked and on the surface might seem indistinguishable...
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Phyllis Galembo: Masquerade
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 239–248.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Phyllis Galembo is Professor of Art at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her photographs have been exhibited widely, including at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Fashion Institute of Technology (all in New...
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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
... and asserting identity. In particular, this essay takes up a charge issued by Gilroy in several works, that reductive racial politics are promoted by black Atlantic popular culture and by members of the academy. I argue on the contrary that the proliferation of hip-hop's technologies, language, and ethic...
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Revealing Power: Masked Protest and the Blank Figure
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 263–279.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Figure 2 Black Bloc, 2003, by Anarkman ...
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What Is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Stefan Skrimshire The subject of utopianism in contemporary political life has experienced a revival of interest in the last few years. One of the most polemical contributions is John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia . One of the greatest benefits of this book...
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A Roundtable on Collectivism: Building Popular Power from within and across Geopolitical Souths
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 392–408.
Published: 01 November 2023
... living there. Among themes in the discussion are art, culture, and spirituality as decolonial practices with a historical and ethnic perspective of Black communalism of the South in the context of the United States and Venezuela based on collective life existing before and beyond the European legacies...
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 2 Extracted detail from Terry Richardson’s Kibosh (2004) . Face rephotographed, cropped, and rendered in black and white
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 1 Extracted details from Terry Richardson’s Kibosh images (2004) . Faces rephotographed, cropped, and rendered in black and white
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Historic Photographs: To Crawl Into—Anschluss, Vienna; March 1938 , 1996/20...
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in Art After Auschwitz: Responding to an Infinite Demand: Gustav Metzger’s Works as Responses to Theodor W. Adorno’s “New Categorical Imperative”
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 2 Historic Photographs: To Crawl Into—Anschluss, Vienna; March 1938 , 1996/2011. Black-and-white photograph on vinyl and cotton cover, 124 × 167¼ in. (315 × 425 cm). © Benoit Pailley. Photograph: Gustav Metzger
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