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Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Shannon Mattern For millennia, mud and its geologic analogues have bound together our media, urban, architectural, and environmental histories. Some of the first writing surfaces, clay and stone, were the same materials used to construct ancient city walls and buildings, whose facades also...
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Doing Their Own Thing: Hip-Hop Youth Activism in the Twenty-First Century
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 371–376.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Murray Forman The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism, and Post–Civil Rights Politics , By Clay Andreana , New York : New York University Press , 2012 , 230 pages, $23/£14.24 (paperback) , ISBN: 978-0-8147-1717-2 © 2013 Murray Forman 2013 The term political...
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Sons of a Beach: The Politics of Bastardy in the Cinema of Nouri Bouzid
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Tunisien), which later transformed into the Trotskyist Perspectives, in which both Krichen and Naccache were involved as leading members. With Bezness (1993), Bent familia ( Tunisiennes ; A Good Woman from a Good Family , 1997), and Poupées d’argile ( Clay Dolls , 2002), it becomes clear...
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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
... a chariot or a fifth-century BCE terracotta figure of a man riding a goose) (28), or in the form of impossible assemblages: animals with wheels instead of legs—or where the horses appear to be in the chariot, animal and vehicle condensed into one wheeled body, such as an Athenian clay chariot with large...
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The Redemption of the Real
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... unknowable and knowable: the case of the tikkun shows how God unfolds into materiality; the appearance of angels shows how the word of God becomes more or less communicative to humans; and the Golem allows us to understand how a simple clod of clay can become possessed by the power/word of God...
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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
... of masculinity and which masculine subjectivities are right or wrong. I'll address these questions in an entangled way, since they are interrelated. Not all scholars of the genre think of rap and hip-hop as endorsing the status quo (see, for instance, Chang 2005 ; Clay 2006 ; Kalyan 2006...
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Thermocultures of Geological Media
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... In the early history of mining in Kenya, women engaged in pot-making discovered many of the area’s minerals. Notably, this happened during their work with heat and fire—when the pots were burned at the final stage of production, a change in color revealed minerals present in the clay ( Amutabi and Lutta...
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Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and the middle few are vastly more popular than the bottom few. Some call this the emergence of an “A list” or the 80/20 rule. As Clay Shirkey summarily puts it, “Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality” ( Shirkey 2003 ). 2 Emphasis...
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Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2016
... .” BioEssays 36 ( 6 ): 548 – 51 . Shaw Aaron . 2011 . “ Insurgent Expertise: The Politics of Free/Livre and Open Source Software in Brazil .” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 8 ( 3 ): 253 – 72 . Shirky Clay . 2009 . Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing...
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Introduction to Bernard Stiegler, “The National Front and Ultraliberalism” (Extract from Pharmacologie du Front National , 2013)
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 119–129.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to embrace this overcoming by transforming it: it is a matter of inventing a model in which the producer-consumer also becomes the innovator, the driver of innovation in an active sense, rather than the passive clay on whom innovation operates in advance through a performative technical system divorced...
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The Advent of Media Modernity out of Wild Bill's Ashes
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 333–346.
Published: 01 November 2021
... telegraph line alongside the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The first official use of that system took place on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for US president was telegraphed from Baltimore to Washington. But the first official demonstration of Morse's telegraph...
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Living with the Virtual: Baudrillard, Integral Reality, and Second Life
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as a Cyber Border Crosser. ” Journal of Virtual Worlds Research , 2 ( 5 ): 3 – 18 . Second Life Liberation Army . 2007 . “ Full Circle. ” Monday, June 18. Available at http://slla.blogspot.com (accessed July 13, 2010). Shirky Clay . 2006 . “ Second Life: What Are the Real Numbers...
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Posthumous Sound and the General Imagination
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
...) into clay seems to gather and sum a deep history, predating the written words that tell us the oldest stories. Even if the flute were not from an expired cadaver but made from a hunter's kill, and its role is to speak to or negotiate with the dead animal, its mediation of breath and bone would still exhibit...
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The Decline of Innovation and the Rise of Contribution
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 413–431.
Published: 01 November 2024
... are threatened by robots, we are preparing young people for this career revolution, in conjunction with the Creteil rectorate. For example, we could use raw clay, an excellent building material, today considered as waste, while we extract thousands of tons a year. Another illustration: the work carried out...
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Prefigurative Politics at Bread and Puppet Theater
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on puppeteers in their tents, cognizant of every creak or strain in their bodies; irregularly washed and covered in dirt, clay, glue, paint, dust, sweat, grass, and garlic; performing demanding labor in the gardens, kitchen, or fields, and at the same time performing the out-of-body experience of puppeteering...
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Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Raindance Corporation . 1971b . “ Part II: Manual .” Guerrilla Television , New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1 108 . Shirky Clay . 2008 . Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organization . London : Allen Lane . Siegel Lee . 2008 . Against the Machine...
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Seeding the Forest
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 November 2023
... pressurized to prevent outside air from moving in—thereby saving the ISC's reel-to-reel tape recorders, hard drives, and IBM mainframes from the fine clay, moisture, hot temperature, and dust suspended in the tropical air. While it may be slightly outside the purview of this article, it should be noted...
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Practices of Reality: Demolition and Reconstruction of a Ghost-Village in Israel
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 357–382.
Published: 01 November 2010
... are developing along the main roads and in the peripheries. Israeli citizens of Arab-Bedouin origin who have not been integrated in official development policies of the Negev have created these. Shacks and tents, roads and bridges of clay, mosques lit by oil generators and an abundance of corrugated metal sheets...
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Innis’s Infrastructure: Dirt, Beavers, and Documents in Material Media Theory
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., institutions and traditions, trade and art—these civilizational elements travel across space and through time only via media: surfaces like paper and clay, elements like air and water, techniques like writing, printing, and speaking. As such, time and space are not static categories. They change...
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