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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the medial willingness to perceive or “figure” the air becomes a critical, everyday necessity. When Sloterdijk attributes the spread of “affective epidemics” to mass-media technologies, he draws attention to how airborne transmission is a symptom of breathing the same air, which, by affecting and altering...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 148–158.
Published: 01 March 2023
... pause. Space for breath, for detours in modes of multispecies literary representation. If the line—working on the assembly line and writing a certain kind of poetic line—is an orientation that draws literature and the abattoir together, as Joseph Ponthus's autofictional poem essay On the Line: Notes...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the Holy Breath of the Greeks, turn into a Holy Spirit. South German monks, by contrast, appeared to have been so fearful of a possible confusion with the old ecstatic techniques that they preferred wihum atum , that is, holy breath. Just as Wagner once called music “the breath of language” (Wagner 1966...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to modern bears, they wouldn't have made a sound like a flute: grunts and roars would be more likely. A flute could not imitate the animal. Instead, there is the tuning of breath. To blow, to breathe life into an inanimate thing, to reanimate a creature after its death: no one can say what that might have...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Catherine Parsonage Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain , McKay George , Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2005 , 376 pages, $22.95 / 14.95 , PB ISBN 0–82233560–3 © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 Academic and public interest...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
... every district of the metropolis. A chemical designed “to torment people, to break their spirits, to cause physical and psychological damage,” tear gas is “a weapon that polices the atmosphere and pollutes the very air we breathe” (Feigenbaum 2017 : 181). But when the air was polluted...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
...” is an appropriation of Pascal Quingard’s writings on language, an appropriation made possible because both language and music are matters of sonority. Lyotard (1997) draws three lessons from Quingard, all of which center on the breath exhaled during speech. This is a mute breath that is “beneath the audible...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 216–224.
Published: 01 July 2018
... regularly exposed to the deadly toxins carried in the post- 9/11 air over Lower Manhattan. Nora’s death is one of several thousand already traced to breathing that toxicity. Thousands more will die because of the reassuring campaign of deception and lies orchestrated by the Bush administration through EPA...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 March 2021
... racism), is tiring and tiresome too, after all. To rest, to reboot, to reset: that is what the lockdowns, in part, in many places in the world have allowed some of us to do. We take a breather from the daily grind. We let the air breathe again, leave it less polluted by air and ground travels, all...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
... (figure, presence, event) there remains a net woven to capture the incapturable, whose presence is yet felt by the reader through the chapter. “The figure is there now, and it blocks the course of the tale by putting a sort of sigh in its way, something between breathing in and breathing out...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in respect of the way it has led to the “animalisation of humanity,” reducing us to domesticated creatures unable to live outside a carefully controlled environment. Despite the fact that this may be safe, and ensure that we keep breathing, it is less than human and opens up a space for the emergence of new...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
... instruments of mental health. The Right's optimistic vision of survival and recovery includes returning to business as usual, breathing greenwashed air. A decent number of commentators note that the concept of “private health” is self-contradictory. Public health, planned economies, and the social wage...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2022
... on stage are not singing to or with, but rather at (if not against) each other. Audiences witness the exchange of copious discharges of voiced breath that frequently leads nowhere (cf. Kittler 1994 ). To attend a Wagner performance is at times a bit like sitting through a lengthy Turing test...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 March 2023
... drive to pass, watch as it grinds her—eyes, ears, brain— even deeper into the gravel. Her joey who'd been still breathing dies in our hands. Figures 3 and 4 Janet Laurence, Fabled , from the After Eden series (2011). Altered camera trap images, ink on archival paper. From the Flora...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 July 2019
... is a welcome breath of fresh air in stressing how important it is to understand that “there was no one solution” (84–85; original emphasis) to the dress problem. Innovations in the design of women’s cycling wear developed in tandem (excuse the pun) with innovations in bicycle design because the invention...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 333–346.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the daguerreotype was often mentioned in the same breath as the telegraph as the supreme examples of . . . American progress.” The rapid metamorphosis of the American frontier lifeworld cannot be overstated: “The annihilation of space realised by transportation technologies, such as the railroad and the steamboat...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., breath-chant, to alleviate my own paranoia and anxiety” (quoted in Miles 1989: 374 ). With the Hell’s Angels agreeing to stay away from the next war demonstration, mantras became increasingly central to Ginsberg’s poetic activism, particularly as they seemed to him an exemplary performance of the vocal...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... readings of his most iconic films, Martin allows this aspect room to breathe as he focuses on the cities, neighborhoods, and structures within which Lynch’s trademark strangeness recurringly plays out. Martin begins with a pair of bold claims: that “the worlds built and filmed by Lynch . . . are among...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... Turner, whose face graces the note? It doesn't matter really. The fear trumps evidence (Subramanian 2020 ). This is the kind of nutty thinking that has given conspiracy theories a bad name. But really, aren't most human projects conspiracies? Con spirare means to breathe together, and humans...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 498–508.
Published: 01 November 2024
... will discuss what the CM actually sees as the conspiracy of a global elite, singling out elements that are associated with conventional conspiracy theorizing while also touching on a deeper notion of conspiracy as a hidden social contract and a way of “breathing together” of both power and resistance. We...
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