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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Jim Mcguigan This article traces various trajectories of development in the field of Cultural Studies, identifying five in particular: theoreticism, methodism, pragmatism, subjectivism, and consumerism. The article concentrates on the consumerist trajectory as it emerged in Britain. While...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... stance, Sloterdijk prefers the perspective of a curator who is concerned about conserving the past century’s critical impulse, which today’s consumerism and the collapse of Left-wing traditions tend to render ghostly. In the first two parts of his essay, Sloterdijk argues that if in contemporary...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Michael E. Gardiner In The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 , Katsiaficas suggests the first genuine revolution against “boredom”—a rejection of social conformity, stultifying work, and facile consumerism—occurred in Paris during May ’68. Yet, this event was only the most...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
... forms. It has allowed him most recently to develop an embryonic critique of political economy, focused on technological and libidinal practices of consumerism. His technological analysis of contemporary reality, buttressed by “technological” readings of Marx and Freud, are important in this context. I...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 194–205.
Published: 01 July 2014
...,” but rather a new culture that combines totalitarianism and consumerism and that calls for theoretical innovations and reconstructions in cultural studies. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Amusing Ourselves to Death Big Brother Brave New World In recent years, the criticism of Chinese...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... but to the shops. This speaks loudly of the current condition of subjectivity in a postpolitical era dominated by neoliberalism and liberal postmodernism. Absorption into the surrogate social world of consumer symbols can never be total, but the subject's identification with consumerism's sumptuary symbolic life...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is in relation to environmentalism. That is, consumerism spawns false needs and false consciousness, disregards the reality of a finite material world in pursuit of ever-expanding markets and profits, and compensates for exploitation and alienation by offering seemingly limitless (but unsatisfying) consumption...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2006
... absorbed the West’s ideas of revolution and fed on the image of US-inflicted horrors and rapid consumerism. What is new here is the power of Internet-enabled image-politics to constitute a new multitude whose face “is that of Islamic resistance” (p. 159). This response may be to unprecedented conditions...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 277–280.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (1993), Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality (1995), Postmodernity and Its Discontents (1997), Work, Consumerism, and the New Poor (1998a), and Globalization: The Human Consequences (1998b), all powerful elaborations of an ambivalent cultural criticism of the contemporary state...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., but it is to this psycho-political place that people may be drawn, simply because the current model of neoliberal, consumer capitalist globalization appears fatally flawed as well as intrinsically unjust. Perhaps, then, the present, which had, since the 1970s, seemed permanently oriented toward consumerism, represents...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 130–150.
Published: 01 July 2022
... developed from the experience of the limits of consumerism, which would equally be a critique of growth—that is, of the misgrowth that has been passed off as growth (see Fauré, Giffard, and Stiegler 2009 )—has been the task that Ars Industrialis has set itself for the past eight years. The issue...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of consumerism as totalitarianism (1964), seeing its global successor as commandeering all aspects of life. Isobel Lorey writes, noting the primacy of the knowledge and service economies today, “What these performative cognitive activities have in common is that in them the entire person, with their knowledge...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... necessary for business (cf. Derber 2002 ). © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 Neoliberalism capitalism consumerism psychoanalysis fantasy criminal imaginary In recent years, scholars have produced significant analyses of neoliberalism as a set of policy assumptions favoring...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and commodity, and functions as a link between war and consumerism. With this work, I aim to construct a place between seeing and shooting. Between sensing and shielding. A precarious site where a subject is both obliterated and reintroduced, and around which a form of embodiment coheres. A location...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
... anti-materialistic 1960s? While Perkins sees no such connection, he does at least offer a useful initial description of the specific nature of yuppie consumerism: 12 “Expensive cars, clothes and personal accessories with appetites for the best foods gourmet restaurants and speciality stores can...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2007
... life and that any cultural and social theory which aspires to effectiveness must therefore re-connect with the economic” (p. 12). Robotham reminds us that present-day individualism and consumerism rest on the social foundation of a global economic production system. Through a critique of the work...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 July 2019
... consumerism as a key strategy of social and economic mobility for suburban middle- and lower-class women could have been much more fully explored, particularly the way this reinforced existing status hierarchies but also revealed cleavages within and between old and new social groupings. The bicycle boom...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 395–398.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of state tyranny: the hysteria of the mass was in fact conditioned to suppress our individual instincts. Simply changing our governments was not enough; people needed to be set free from their psychoanalytical cell. The Marxist critique of consumerism also shifted from economic imperatives to a more...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 202–226.
Published: 01 July 2017
... links the rise of neoliberal consumerism to developments that precede digital uptake: the proliferation of mobile Internet reinforces neoliberal values, such as flexibility, mobility, and individual autonomy, but such values were ushered in earlier, as part of a longue durée of post–Cold War media...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 281–283.
Published: 01 November 2017
... era, only the atomized fluidity of disjointed molecules caught up in the one spate. The nuclear family falls apart: why stay with a partner who doesn’t give me what I want? The nuclear family, invented for consumerism and consolidated in the era of suburbanization, collapsed under the strain...