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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 171–180.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Bernard Stiegler The text we publish here is the first chapter of Bernard Stiegler's La Télécratie contre la Démocratie . The broad argument of Stiegler's book (and of this introductory chapter) is that what he terms “telecracy” is ruining democracy by short-circuiting the normal mechanisms...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 70–85.
Published: 01 March 2013
...—in contrast to today's privileging of the private sector under neoliberalism. Metabolism is worth reconsidering, then, both because it adds a chapter to the history of international modernism and because it extends the field of modernism through an architecture not only of international harmony but also...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and Terrorism: Towards An Urban Geopolitics shows how the urban nodes of capitalist modernity that have long been implicated in the destruction of distant people and places appear to be generating new forces for their own annihilation. The book consists of seventeen chapters divided into three main...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 249–251.
Published: 01 July 2021
... it describes within each chapter. The quality of the chapters—and the illustrations of how Latour's work could be put into practice—make it difficult for researchers in the humanities to feel indifferent to this collective project, especially for those working in the fields of STS (science and technology...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 377–380.
Published: 01 November 2013
... demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings” ( Jarry [1900] 2002: 106 ). Taking a lead from Guattari's notion of “ecosophy” (chapter 6), which implies an ethic of space, Conley finds in both Latour and Balibar...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 259–261.
Published: 01 July 2019
... chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to methodological and theoretical considerations. It elaborates on the importance of studying modern dictatorships from the perspective of art and politics. This chapter also tackles the methodological risks the author is keen to take in addressing the thorny issue...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
...-century thinkers in the understanding of fashion. The book begins with an effective and clear presentation of the theoretical origins and recent dérive of the field that the editors identify in “the linguistic turn,” “the politics of post-structuralism,” and the “new materialism.” The following chapters...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of this plot development in Eraserhead 1 —Martin finds a trend of familiar environs reshaped to sinister, uncanny effect. His first chapter, “Town and City,” takes a decidedly ideological tack as it challenges the well-engrained maxim, popularized by Sarah Palin’s insipid 2008 campaign speeches...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 495–497.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and militarism are not dealt with, and taking this approach would no doubt broaden the appeal and range of the book to a wider audience. Chapter 1 offers a general history of military simulation and the emergence of the relationship between vision and anticipation that military technology has enabled...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 410–412.
Published: 01 November 2018
... character, luxury eludes definition, and it is not captured in any one chapter, but some strong working definitions are established. Readers unfamiliar with the rich philosophical, historical, and theoretical depth to luxury will benefit from John Armitage and Joanne Roberts’ chapter, which summarizes...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 427–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., but continuously feeds on its own destructive, exploitative, and racializing logics. Insecurity has nine chapters. The first seven are scholarly essays that focus on a particular aspect/case of in/security. They are followed by an interview/discussion between Aneesh Aneesh and Saskia Sassen, and a personal...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2020
... differently. These arguments are progressively layered atop one another across six chapters, organized into three parts. The first section focuses on the relationships between human and nonhuman bodies. The first chapter, “From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love,” discusses the evolution of orangutan care work...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York, argues that economic issues are being overlooked in studies of contemporary culture and society. Moreover, he suggests that a number of key cultural and social theorists have had a significant role in sidelining economics. In Chapter 1, Robotham...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 370–372.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of chapter 3 or the increasingly normalized demonization of the zama-zama miners discussed in chapter 10. Many of these chapters depict segments of Joburg life that have vanished or been warped beyond recognition during the almost ten years since the project began, destroyed by pandemic, power crisis...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Luke Robinson Structurally, the book is composed of an introduction, laying out the volume’s rationale, and eight chapters. Each chapter focuses on one example, or one group, of China’s borders with its neighbors, arranged counter-clockwise from east to west. Thus we start at the border...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
... conceptual constellations. Art and theory are set on equal footing and in resonance with each other. Each chapter of the book spirals from theory to art, from art to theory, pointing to the complex interrelations and oppositions between the two. The book as a whole manages to cross disciplinary boundaries...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 404–406.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the conventional politics of the Left, which they contend is suspicious of extrastate efforts to improve the lot of the poor and creative possibilities for collective action in general. An extended preface and an introductory chapter detailing the overall intent of the book are followed by its five main...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 March 2012
... a source Jacques Lacan and others have previously employed in a similar fashion. Chapter 1 is titled “The Purloined Landscape,” a reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter , for the landscape, like the letter, “remains hidden,” because it “is not taken away but rendered invisible by allowing...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the book and is a subject to which Young frequently returns throughout the various chapters. However, the book’s broader contribution to the field of cultural politics lies in its analysis of an important tension immanent to the list form. On the one hand, lists circumscribe, define borders or boundaries...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 412–416.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., and chiasmus the figure of trauma. It is to such “poetics of narrative mourning” that Gana devotes the six chapters of Signifying Loss after a short but incisive preface on the stakes involved in the poetics of narrative mourning he elaborates throughout the book. In the introductory chapter (“Thresholds...
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