Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 400
Search Results for critical theory
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... identifies some of the limits of this “cyber-libertarian 2.0” discourse. It does so first by drawing upon post-Marxist discourse theory to outline the central elements of the discourse, and second by contrasting the cyber-libertarian understanding of “the situation” with a critical political economy reading...
View articletitled, Cyber-Libertarianism 2.0: A Discourse <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>/<span class="search-highlight">Critical</span> Political Economy Examination
View
PDF
for article titled, Cyber-Libertarianism 2.0: A Discourse <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>/<span class="search-highlight">Critical</span> Political Economy Examination
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
... with critical theory has gradually transformed from an aesthesis of the event, through a Nietzschean “transvaluation of all values” – generosity instead of resentment as motivating force of critique – or “retuning” of Heidegger’s concept of the Lichtung , into a “poetical” and “global” constructivism...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Richard Beardsworth This paper considers Bernard Stiegler's contribution to contemporary critical theory. Stiegler's singular understanding of technology widens critical debate on the specificity of contemporary society and prolongs, in a novel manner, remaining commitments of recent French...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 206–225.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Thierry Bardini With questions addressing ideas central to Virno’s thinking as they relate to prominent trends in critical theories over the past decades, this interview helps illuminate Virno’s position as an engaged intellectual and the continued relevance of his thought to the emancipatory...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 212–227.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Amelie Berger Soraruff Abstract French philosopher Bernard Stiegler inscribes himself in the tradition of critical theory. In this respect, the influence of Adorno and Horkheimer has been crucial to the development of his own understanding of cinema. Yet Stiegler reproaches his predecessors...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
... these practices originate—come to be rehabilitated as charity, in a cycle that mirrors the circulation of consumer goods upon which they depend for funding. I draw on critical theories of philanthropy, consumer culture, the welfare state, and time, as they contribute to our understanding of the inculcation...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... : Secker and Warburg . Kurz R. 2005 . Das Weltkapital. Globalisierung und innere Schranken des modernen warenproduzierenden Systems . Berlin : Tiamat . Postone M. 1993 . Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Re interpretation of Marx's Critical Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Eric Goodfield For most contemporary theorists, the death of postmodern thought as a theoretical impulse and critical divide has become a given. Yet, since the end of the 1990s a variety of important strands of social and political thought—queer theory, feminism, and postcolonialism to name...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Johanna Drucker In our image-saturated culture, can works of imaginative art have any impact? If so, then what is the critical concept within which their effect can be understood? This article makes use of a systems-theory approach in relation to a longer history of modernist criticism, proposing...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of this came the moment of “critical theory,” the productive period of which runs from 1831 to 1969 (if we take the deaths of Hegel and Adorno as limiting dates). If we wished to examine the earlier origins of this current of thought, it would be sufficient initially to go back to Lenin’s well-known reference...
View articletitled, What Happened in the Twentieth Century? En Route to A Critique of Extremist Reason: Inaugural Lecture, Emmanuel Levinas Chair, Strasbourg, March 4, 2005
View
PDF
for article titled, What Happened in the Twentieth Century? En Route to A Critique of Extremist Reason: Inaugural Lecture, Emmanuel Levinas Chair, Strasbourg, March 4, 2005
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Matthew Flisfeder In the following, I argue against cognitivist film scholars, such as David Bordwell and Noël Carroll, for the relevance of Slavoj Žižek in the field of film criticism and theory. I argue that Žižek's work presents a wholly new mode of criticism which focuses on the ideological...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the internal colony foregrounded alliances with struggles for national liberation abroad, articulated through an internationalist and Third Worldist position. This essay is a critical evaluation of the theory of the internal colony as a political perspective, its use and circulation within militant movements...
View articletitled, Internal Colony as Political Perspective: Counterinsurgency, Extraction, and Anticolonial Legacies of ’68 in the United States
View
PDF
for article titled, Internal Colony as Political Perspective: Counterinsurgency, Extraction, and Anticolonial Legacies of ’68 in the United States
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
... current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on how the changes in urban space and atmosphere can be understood, but also why 5G is a perfect case for techno-criticism and conspiracy theories alike. The waves of wireless networks are spreading to reach even the smallest niches, driven by mobile telephony and wireless Internet. In the future...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Baudrillard developed the notion of fetishism to great critical effect, he did not theorize it or apply it systematically. © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 fetishism sign object symbolic exchange 9/11 fatal theory If it was possible, in the past, to speak of the fetishism of the commodity...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
...David I. Backer; Tyson E. Lewis It is not uncommon to hear criticisms of the university today. From the right, the university is seen as nothing more than a mere liberal bastion or hotbed for leftist ideological indoctrination. And from the left, the university is considered nothing more than...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Gary Hall This article begins by analyzing critically the usefulness of the recent political philosophy of Chantal Mouffe for reconceptualizing ideas of peace and conflict. It takes as its focus for doing so the situation of the Middle East. It proceeds to show how Mouffe’s radical democratic...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., the author examines four nonhuman animal symbols—the lion, the tiger, the pig, and the butterfly, which have been mobilized in Sri Lanka to delineate (imaginary) boundaries between different communities that reside there. The article combines critical animal studies and nationalism studies scholarship...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
... up increasingly in response to systemic and structural analyses, leading, for instance, to the inclusion of gender and postcolonial studies or critical race theory in its condemnation. Take the interactions between Malcolm X and reporters in the aftermath of The Hate That Hate Produced...
1
