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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the respective approaches are insufficient to elucidate the genuinely radical possibilities we may harbor for the Internet. The case study of “hypertextual databases” or “wikis” is used, both to contextualize the limitations of the above arguments and to present a more radical overture for thinking about network...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., design, and “smart city” governance, digital twins are “digital-physical” databases purporting not only to represent the appearance of an object but also to capture or simulate all changes to its physical and informatic state, down to the bolt or data point. What are the media histories and stakes...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 362–364.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of photographic images, uploaded, shared, stored in databases, and operationalized in automated computational systems requires a radically new way of thinking about contemporary photography and visual culture. In setting out to address this situation, the editors suggest that the question of scale and the related...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., wireless network hackers are often deploying their skills toward developing a database of “free networks” that, if not always free of costs, represent real opportunities for local communities to share connections and corporate fees. Such freenets represent inclusive resources that are developed...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., and where space is produced according to the logics of the database and the organizational supply chain. It is often thought that this apparatus has contributed to the evacuation of geographical space, overriding the vagaries of place and distance. However, it has simultaneously contributed...
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2 Graphic interpretation of Charles Eastman's cube diagram, from a 1975 issue of the American Institute of Architects Journal . It was used to illustrate the database structure of the building description system (BDS). In Eastman's diagram, numerical equations depict the shapes More
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 281–283.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., “is the new irrelevance of space, masquerading as the annihilation of time” (2000: 117). But perhaps it is less irrelevance and more concentration: space condensed down to a platform for behaviors, and time approximating to the eternal present of spreadsheets and databases. I have been thinking about...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2018
... space and how this shapes our understanding of the city. In this section the text moves from a discussion of the work of Dziga Vertov and Charles Marville to a critical account of Google Street View and the implications of “data-driven urbanism.” The description of the Street View database...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... arrive back in the present with an analysis of algorithmic, operational lists: the list is “formally operative in computation” (112). What is ultimately drawn out by this discussion is the claim that lists, in the form of databases, institute a new temporal regime, wherein twenty-first-century society...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Trump” cites other databases collecting his lies and offer well-documented examples of Trump's stunning amount of lying throughout his career ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Donald_Trump , accessed on January 22, 2021). 5. Twitter and Facebook both removed Trump from...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., comprehensive database linkups with optimal access reserved for the police. At times, the interference between the old and new systems of repression was able to equip stupid prejudices with clever rationales (which is in itself a hallmark of political modernism). Unlike their elected superiors, the new...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... “the hyperrealism of legal and police representation.” Moreover, the fictional reimagining of forensic science, video compression technologies, and global database networks impact real court cases in far more complex and nuanced ways than simply what has been dubbed the “CSI effect”—the overreliance of juries...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to synthesize police databases with live televisual perception. A complex set of sensors and algorithms allows him to foresee the movements of his adversaries, whom he then neutralizes with impressive firepower. Thus he emerges as a supremely efficient sleuth, the ultimate policeman of the polis: RoboCop...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
... are commensurated by transforming each object into a number of weighted data points, complemented by data points within their respective networks, which are aggregated in Klout’s relational database. Carolin Gerlitz (2012 : 7) has argued that these data points “do not add up to either a single individual...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... or Misleading Claims: The Fact Checker’s Ongoing Database of the False or Misleading Claims Made by President Trump since Assuming Office .” Washington Post , updated April 30, 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/ . Kirchgaessner Stephanie . 2017 . “ Russia...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
... on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website, Suarez is depicted as having humble origins, whose early contact with the film industry was not in a creative role, but as a salesperson, and later as a film producer in Hong Kong, going on to receive tutelage by a Spanish director before returning to the Philippines...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., or database” (2015: 188). The anonymous death, as outlined by Mountz, thereby also resonates with the experience of those who may live yet do not count as full citizens or legal persons. In this sense, the border exposes a community’s formation on the basis of exclusion. However, the specifics...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... protocols, and the data has piled up. The [Security and Exchange Commission's] public document database, Edgar, now catalogs 200 gigabytes of filings each year – roughly 15 million pages of text – up from 35 gigabytes a decade ago. But the volume of data obscures more than it reveals; financial reporting...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the Uyghurs. It includes facial recognition, fingerprints, and DNA in massive databases that also have been tracking legal and credit information, and even the loyalty (“social credit”) of Chinese citizens. China is not alone in having in place institutions that will use this pandemic to expand...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and money to get themselves out of the city before it was too late (Qiuming 2020 ). Here we see that mobility is not for everyone, and a variety of Ban-Opticon databases designed to police the mobility of different categories of persons determine who can have access to which types of places (Lebbe...