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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 139–161.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Deena Varner Beginning in the late 1960s a series of reforms saw the emergence of vast numbers of bureaucratic instruments meant to standardize the care, custody, and control of inmates. Grievance and disciplinary procedures were largely homogenized to ensure inmates’ protection from the abuses...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288–292.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that the whole process of the extermination of the Jews was part of a systematic utopian industrial and bureaucratic process like any other. Auschwitz, for example, took European Jews from February 1942 to 1944, the last some 430,000 from Hungary from May to July 1944. This one camp killed and cremated at least...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... museum loan traditions that normally deal only with sovereign countries; the bureaucratic measures defining so-called peace agreements, checkpoints, airports, international insurance requirements; and, finally, the inability to fulfill—at least at first—the environmental conditions (humidity...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and the humiliating Peace Treaty of Tilsit (July 1807), the Prussian state archive—usually a hyperproductive writing machine—produced a paltry twenty-one files ( Vismann 2008 : 120). Catastrophes in mundo cause atrophies in actis . Vismann’s reference to bureaucratic procedures must be read against one...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 136–154.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to change the slow and bureaucratic ways of Eurocentric architecture. —Curatorial text printed on the first blanket in the exhibition Following the Fish The Catalan exhibition Following the Fish / Toppi jën wi (figs. 1 – 5), organized by Ramon Llull Institut, responds to the challenge posed...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 63–72.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of carnage Dispute their culls like bureaucrats, Putting spin on productivity, The delivery of deliverables. Go to Lucian, if you must, And despair, and then tell me We await the return of the heroic. 5. “I bore my exile patiently,” Dryden translates, assisted By eminent hands...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... aligns viewers and readers with grieving survivors and not with the state that regulates them. The outcome is a particular politics of affect that pits the manifestly personal needs of grieving survivors, who are represented as being “like us,” against the manifestly arbitrary and bureaucratic needs...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2023
... mechanisms on which to base, guide, and determine their choices; otherwise the retaining or removing of a statue will depend on the undemocratic decisions of a coterie of bureaucrats and judges, or even a mob of protestors and vigilantes. Curiously, as the central focus of the book, monuments...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... ( 1992 ), Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History , New York : Routledge . Ferguson J. ( 1990 ), Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Ghosh A. ( 1994 ), “ The Global...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 303–305.
Published: 01 November 2017
... dialogue among the major interests. However, efforts to impose bureaucratic order are chronically liable to generate more ambiguity and create “leftover” population categories that do not fit in. Modernity becomes conflictual and difficult to either understand or control in spite of our best intentions...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that functioned to ensure consent for established authorities in society and the state. The Maoist campaign was set in motion by a charismatic patriarch who had transcended state power to the extent that he could call for attacks on its citadels and bureaucratic armature. The eruption of dissent among Western...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... propagandist purposes. Theodor Adorno repeatedly returned to the crucial distinction between instrumental and critical rationality. Reason in the service of administration is a weapon of terror, absolutely. Art in the service of bureaucratic culture is too readily absorbed into the system of production...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., the Iraq war (“Operation Freedom”), and biopower. The state’s shift away from welfare is not a complete abandonment but a move toward making dependency both a judgment of individual failure and procedurally bureaucratic (here called hyperlegalism). Winfrey’s reading practices, her television show, and her...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for Nigeria, where clientelistic networks and system of co-ethnic friendship prevented the rise of formalized bureaucratic organization. Similarly, practices of representation require a cultural understanding from the inside of interpreted meaning rather than from a value-based view of Western-style...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 85–92.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of self-hardening comes the “Wall of Shame,” a spontaneous bureaucratic excrescence that occurs in almost every for-profit cultural office. A file, or a binder, or perhaps even an actual wall, of the most inappropriate submissions the gallery or agency receives, maintained, and occasionally perused...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 284–287.
Published: 01 November 2017
... objective culture will quickly strip us of our ability to think ethically, politically, and critically. When we lose sight of our shared humanity and no longer care for the weak, the miserable, and the homeless, because we have vanished into the kind of bureaucratic calculus Weber associated...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 309–313.
Published: 01 November 2017
... dialectic that replicates itself in the incessant and Sisyphus-like efforts of rationalists and totalitarians, bureaucrats, capitalists, and, he paused, quite a few Marxist theorists and revolutionaries. That was enough class war and antifascism for one day. I should mention that some...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that the modern liberal state, epitomized by Weimar, had become a headless, formless empty shell operating only by the blind automatism of its own bureaucratic instrumental-rational legalistic processes, much as juridified technocratic administrative procedures today substitute for politics and leave both nation...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 265–280.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of society but is also recognized as such. Probably influenced by the bureaucratization of the ruling elites in absolutist Russia and Prussia, and certainly reacting against the scorn toward the professions (in particular lawyers and doctors) expressed by Burke in his writings against the French Revolution...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 244–251.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as a “gift” to the German National Bank, which deliciously costs the bank a hell of a lot more than one cent in processing charges, to be sure. She follows bureaucratic regulations and details the reasons for her transaction each time. Accordingly, she enters 108 characters from Marx’s Das Kapital...
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