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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joff P. N. Bradley Abstract Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation ( Bildung ) and the possibility...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 472–484.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Ayelet Ben-Yishai Abstract Emergency situations around the world have always presented a complicated and ostensibly paradoxical mix of crisis and continuity. This essay builds on the author's research into the cultural and literary history of the Emergency in India (1975 – 77) and on a reading...
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 10 Exhibition view of section 5 (“The Salon in Protracted Crisis”) of “Je suis inculte!” Photograph by Walid Rashid. Courtesy of Sursock Museum. More
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Michiel Rys Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis , edited by de Cauwer Stijn , New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 , 256 pages, $35 (paperback), ISBN 9780231186797 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 The inflationary use...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Jean-François Lyotard In this essay, Jean-François Lyotard revisits the question of the postmodern in relation to the “foundation crisis” in the mathematical sciences, arguing that this crisis should be conceived not in terms of the establishment of the foundations of scientific discourses...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of our twenty-first-century virus crisis can be discerned, even influenced. The crisis isn't just biological, it is about ideas and how they propagate through, for example, conspiracy theories and inflammatory actions. Viral emotions are integral to what is happening, as attention to both the virus...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 July 2019
... politics and problematize external normative perceptions of regions in “crisis.” In so doing, this article aims to demonstrate how humor harnesses a performance of marginality to undermine stereotypes of life under crisis, while offering alternative views both of each nation’s past and its way forward...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 409–426.
Published: 01 November 2023
...” políticos geográficos y culturales. Una de las preguntas centrales que plantea este artículo es, cómo crear diversas y heterogéneas estrategias para la sustentabilidad y creación del espíritu colectivo, durante las crisis coyunturales y estructurales del Sur Global, así como también para enfrentar el...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 432–441.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of liberal freedoms of speech and artistic expression before and after October 7 (ruangrupa in conversation with Sophie Goltz), to the crisis of Israel-Palestine now (Ayelet Ben-Yishai). [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Ukraine NATO Gaza and plausible genocide...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 112–135.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Beryl Pong Abstract While practices of visibility, visuality, and visualization have long impacted migration, recently the drone's-eye view has become part of the iconology and iconography of mobility. With the European “migration crisis” of 2015, varieties of drones were used by states...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Curtis’s recent body of work diagnostically. It argues that, quite apart from any promise of escape or deliverance, the aesthetic form of his work actively inhabits the rhythms and vectors of contemporary media. For Curtis, the media-technological conditions of the twenty-first century provoke a crisis...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 103–132.
Published: 01 March 2011
... between public and private, state and individual interests have become redefined and obscured through new discourse strategies. They conclude that the present financial and regulatory “crisis” cannot be adequately resolved without a new analytic framework for examining the relationships between...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 162–183.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to replenish the cognitive, affective, and/or communicative energies strained by the current crisis of social reproduction. © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 music social reproduction historical materialism music streaming In June 2014 the digital streaming service Songza was purchased...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... particular attention to the continuing importance of transport infrastructures. The key concerns are with the politics of differential power over—and access to—mobility, in both its actual and virtual modalities. The COVID-19 crisis is argued to have functioned both as a mode of amplification of many...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to subsume a human security crisis into the narrative of an eternal Cold War. The third is transmedial , to acquire new political and cultural perspectives on the pandemic through the zombie cinematic genre, including our documentary film, Project Z : The Final Global Event . A zombie inquiry can help us...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Kevin Robins Abstract This article explores issues covered in Wuhan Diary , a day-by-day account by the Chinese author Fang Fang of her experiences during the height of the pandemic crisis in the city of Wuhan during the early months of 2020. It seeks to bring out what is distinctive and innovative...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... follows with a discussion of Trump and authoritarian populism, arguing that Trump's floundering fortunes in the context of a hotly contested 2020 presidential campaign triggered his chaotic and contradictory responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, producing a crisis of democracy. In this context...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the spirit of capitalism and a recognition of the difference between human work, which contributes to a meaningful world, and bestial labor that dehumanizes and means nothing. Thus, the article shows how Žižek thinks about the pandemic in terms of a crisis of late capitalism and the possibility of a new...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... that the university is undergoing a major identity crisis. What many of these analyses fail to recognize is the underlying educational logic at work in higher education—a logic that informs both conservative and progressive analyses of the university. Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, we present a critical...