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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Tony D. Sampson; Jussi Parikka Abstract This article analyzes the visual operations of contagions and their material aftereffects. Data visualizations and diagrams have played a key role in the visual culture of the contagion, and this article explores especially two recurring themes: curves...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
....), Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes . Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1980. Available at the Perseus Project, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Isoc.+4+1 . 1. A sigmoid curve is an S-shaped graph found in statistical analysis...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the deaths of others. We can't say the word mortality without adding the word rates . Death is a statistic whose numbers rapidly transform into a diagram, “the curve,” a visualization whose abstraction approaches the vacuum of a simulation, eradicating even the memory of actual deaths. The curve...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 249–251.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Latour's term—to convince their audience and themselves of the feasibility of their respective projects. Eventually, the ethnographers explain why, when confronted with the different entities—the exam board, the client, the landscape, the concrete, the curve lines of a map—those projects have been...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... He turned instead to biology, citing the future coauthor of The Bell Curve , Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein, on “the genetic basis for inequality of intelligence” ( Rothbard 2000b : 16). “Biology,” Rothbard (2000b : 16) wrote in 1972, “stands like a rock in the face of egalitarian...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
...], and also imaginative [such and such curve, such and such contour or value]), in which a sensible given must give itself in order to be sensible. This something is felt in the threat of the impossibility of the forms of apprehension of matter that constitute sensibility. ( 2010b : 199) This “something...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 March 2014
... inner circle of family and friends and, most likely, the participant herself. Every curve and crevice of the body is scrutinized for imperfections, each procedure painstakingly documented, and the psychological fragilities of the participants exposed to a huge television audience. It is this excess...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 233–242.
Published: 01 July 2005
... of associations within modern hard-edged technology. But it has been a nervous exploration. Being drawn to something as deeply offensive, immoral and dangerous as the dark curves of a Hunter-Killer submarine is uncomfortable. I kept going because the ambivalence of attraction and repulsion is fascinating...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 320–332.
Published: 01 November 2014
... York City, in a neighborhood where recent surveys show that the median income, although said to be dropping, is still very high in relation to most parts of the city and the world. Something anomalous in her peripheral vision stops her from moving out and up with the crowd. In a curved corner...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and Wannsee, or the road of the future: for cars only, with no intersections, but featuring raised curves, bleachers for sporting events, and (not to forget) two lanes separated by a median stripe. It’s hard to imagine what people had been willing to put up with. From mule tracks to Roman roads, from...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 303–321.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of an interconnected world system despatialize the real globe, replacing the curved earth with a synchronous world interior of capital that neutralizes distance and compresses all that was heretofore extended into an almost extensionless point. At the same time, however, Sloterdijk articulates that interpretation...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... investigation has traditionally been founded: the Paracelsus principle. This principle, which states that “the dosage makes the poison,” implies that there are safe levels of exposure to otherwise harmful substances. For most toxicological studies, a monotonic response curve applies, which may be linear...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the death of the body in numbers, curves, and other abstract measures (Sampson and Parikka, this issue), and “the new shut-ins” have been able to escape from the embodied world by taking off into cyberspace, Levy reminds his reader that “burrowing” condemns us to a kind of “bare life,” what he calls “life...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... formulates an attempt at exploring this new frontier by abdicating the vertical hierarchy and by deconstructing figurative imagery that could always revert to control and scrutiny. The images produced while in the bunker constituted a direct answer to our unusual surroundings. The images, with their curved...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of control. Amplifiers with positive feedback go into a tizzy, amplified siblings like Siegmund and Sieglinde, who recognize each other by means of reflections and echoes, sleep with each other. Wagner's orchestral dynamics are, just like his sexual acts, simple threshold curves of air. The ecstasy...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 March 2006
... curves is undoubtedly the saddleshaped figure which is so thoroughly familiar to engineers. Once such a curve is before us, it is financially justifiable to set the minimum standard at the base of that saddle, and it is not justifiable from a financial standpoint to set it above or below that point...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... power represented within each band, before recombination back into the output signal domain. Manipulation of the threshold curve changes the threshold target level for each band. This allows the frequency content to be modified based on dynamic changes in the signal over both time and rate. ( Plugin...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 144–157.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Valéry. One stabilizes the object and necessitates attention and wakefulness. The other disturbs this stable object. The retinal attention has to fight the seductions of the curve; it has to strive to form the “line,” the style traceur , a “conservative” movement, a registration of the “displacements...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ). The warning signs of exponentially accelerating viral risk (Norman, Bar-Yam, and Taleb 2020 ) fell on mostly deaf ears early in the pandemic—leaving the richest country in the world behind the curve, hapless, stockpiled with billion-dollar F-35s, border walls, and a militarized police force, yet short where...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... industry, the very practical imperative to accelerate movement from A to B and the aesthetic agenda to design the sinuous curves ( schwingende Bahn ) of the autobahn in such a way as to facilitate a leisurely motorized form of landscape consumption (see Zeller 2007 : 138–42; Schütz and Gruber 1996 : 122...
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