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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 July 2023
...) To structure the cultural history of this discourse, the book is divided into six chapters, each of which presents an aspect of the extended laboratory model concept: space, apparatus, infrastructure, people, the imaginary, and techniques. The approach is comparative—although this reader considers...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This article offers an introduction to the German concept of Kulturtechniken (cultural techniques), with a special focus on the term’s multilayered semantic career, as well as on the way old notions of Kultur are at play in the concept. The conceptual expansion of cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 289–303.
Published: 01 November 2018
... modernity that players desire and produce but that is everywhere complicated by the very conditions of its production. Drawing on the work of Bernhard Siegert, Svetlana Boym, Raymond Williams, James C. Scott, and Chandra Mukerji, we consider the block-, grid-, and code-level cultural techniques associated...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., most notably, the “media archaeology” approach advocated by Jussi Parikka, in English, or Wolfgang Ernst, in translation, or the concept of “cultural techniques” developed by theorists like Bernhard Siegert and Krämer herself. What unites these distinct, recently translated works is that they don’t...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 July 2015
...John W. P. Phillips Taking as a starting point the challenge in finding ways of treating autoimmune disorders, this article constructs a hypothetical frame for enquiry that explores the connections between bioscience and, in a different register, the techniques of cultural memory. Putting...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
... . The act of making this division or mark is a cultural technique that, in middle voice fashion, crafts the subject performing the act into a different kind of subject, in both grammatical and ontological senses. In an essay on the German traditions of thought surrounding Kulturtechnik , Geoff Winthrop...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 12–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the development of new skills, techniques, and capacities in an entirely other domain, of nonwork or fun. The fact that fun, pleasure, and self-making relied on cultures of enterprise, empowerment, and aspiration also brings into view some of the contradictions at stake in neoliberal India. Srila.Roy...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
...’ infrastructures (see Mattern 2015a) . The long history of mud’s applications as both a writing substrate and an architectural medium shows us how we can integrate both the historical and contemporary meanings of the term Kulturetechnik , or cultural technique, a framework very much en vogue in media...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... practices. After establishing that lists are materially bound up in the cultural production and circulation of commodities, he then examines the administrative power of lists as a technique of governmentality. The epistemological authority of statistics, for example, relies on a certain facticity that Young...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the argument. Mud, temperature, plastics, copper, and synthetic silicon are some of the material agencies that become anchors of cultural analysis. The articles do not refer to media representations of geology or even, all that much, to the specific instruments and techniques used in geological fieldwork...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 23–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and artifice. Bertuch is on his way to conceptualizing fashion and luxury as cultural techniques that prepare the ground for the subsequent differentiation into nature and culture (see Winthrop-Young 2014) . The old adage “Kleider machen Leute” (“Clothes make the man”) is literally and fundamentally true...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
... . 2010 . Post-cinematic Affect . Ropley, UK : Zero . Siegert Bernhard . 2015 . “ The Cultural Techniques of Seafaring .” In Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real , translated by Young Geoffrey Winthrop , 68 – 69 . New York : Fordham...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of a “productive” convergence of three founding nations (as we hear in some popular and nationalistic histories, e.g., Saul 2008) but of cultural techniques of hunting and trapping, economic exchange and circulation. It is a logistical story about the movement of people, data, and things, about dynamic processes...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 485–497.
Published: 01 November 2024
... into an acoustic atmosphere: the acoustics enlarge the space and the experiential dimensions of locations. Indoors and outdoors temporarily change place in this auditory cultural technique. The minimalist visual design of the sound installation ( figs.1 and 2 ) brings forth this dynamic of hidden but audible...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in his wake, is beyond doubt. It is no coincidence that one of the best analyses of the considerable strengths (and weaknesses) of his media-theoretical contributions, Sybille Krämer’s essay “The Cultural Techniques of Time Axis Manipulation: On Friedrich Kittler’s Conception of Media,” is a close...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., it is only through the precise control of impurities via thermal manipulation that the transistor can function as a switch. Without such techniques, signals would experience near constant interference at a subatomic level. The manipulation of purity through temperature is thus tied to a cultural investment...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2024
... be subjected to further measurement, comparison, analysis, and, ultimately, wagering. In such ways, photography is a cultural technique of what we understand today with the clunky term derivatization . A derivative is, after all, a unit that has been disaggregated from another entity, on which it depends...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... Experimentation is a cultural technique that dominates the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in ways that cannot be delinked from technology, the various measuring and tracing apparatuses that allowed for significantly altered ways of understanding the senses and their operation as well as the detection...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., other female muses including Brünnhilde—provided the input, and the circuits of a male-dominated meaning industry, processed the output and fed it back into the cultural techniques of education. Kittler, then, hears the Rheingold prelude as a piece of early sound engineering that simulates...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 237–252.
Published: 01 July 2010
... in the divorce between technology, reduced to a mere phase of labor, and culture, which has not understood what a machine is and what role that machine should have. Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques , Simondon's “com ple-mentary” thesis for the degree of Doctorat d'État, is indisputably...
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