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From Models to Mirror Worlds
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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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“WIKIVISM”: FROM COMMUNICATIVE CAPITALISM TO ORGANIZED NETWORKS
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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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in Camouflaging Electromagnetic Networks as Techno-Habitats for Humans, Plants, Animals, and Machines
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1 Screenshot depicting cell towers on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, taken from the Bundesnetzagentur's EMF database, 2019. Screenshot of https://emf3.bundesnetzagentur.de .
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The Persistence of Photography
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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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Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... For examples see our two blogs: BlogLeft, www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php , and Vegan Blog: The (Eco)Logical Weblog, www.getvegan.com/blog/blogger.php . “Wikis” are popular new forms of group databases and hypertextual archives, covered in more depth later in this paper. 6. Illich’s...
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An Axis of Intensity
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of data, 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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Graphic interpretation of Charles Eastman's cube diagram, from a 1975 issue...
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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
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Liquidity
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 281–283.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and more concentration: space condensed down to a platform for behaviors, and time approximating to the eternal present of spreadsheets and databases. Today the individual is undergoing a parallel breakdown. What we have now has changed since Bauman’s observations at the millennium. The liquidation...
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Learning from Networked Public Space
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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 Infrastructure
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., in the form of databases, institute a new temporal regime, wherein twenty-first-century society is increasingly “recalibrated around nonhuman, machinic time” (124). The final chapter, which at last addresses the poetics of lists in detail, is less convincing than what comes before, perhaps because...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of Texas student C. Fred Alford ( 1985 ). 4. According to the Washington Post “Fact Checker” team, “in four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims” (Kessler et al. 2021 ). The Wikipedia entry “Veracity of Statements by Donald Trump” cites other databases collecting his...
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Camouflaging Electromagnetic Networks as Techno-Habitats for Humans, Plants, Animals, and Machines
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 1 Screenshot depicting cell towers on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, taken from the Bundesnetzagentur's EMF database, 2019. Screenshot of https://emf3.bundesnetzagentur.de . ...
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Pixelated Flesh
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., the events of our lives, our human histories are reduced to lines on a form, cells in a database, points on a graph. At the end of The Vision Machine Virilio (1994 : 75) suggests that the importance of statistical science based on the calculation and analysis of the pixel lies not simply in its art...
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Hunting a Whale of a State: Kittler and His Terrorists
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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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Inner Screens and Cybernetic Battlefields: Paul Virilio and RoboCop
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... In Padilha’s film, as we noted above, the uniform makes the soldier, and in RoboCop/Murphy’s case, the visor embodies the film’s portrayal of how perception and conflict are now intimately bonded. Due to his televisual capacities, databases of closed-circuit television (CCTV), and ability to plug into live...
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The Neoliberal Subject of Value: Measuring Human Capital in Information Economies
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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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Donald Trump, Globalization, and the Russia Connection in Election 2016
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., The Netherlands : Sense . Kessler Glenn Kelly Meg Rizzo Salvador Lee Michelle Ye Hee . 2018 . “ In 466 Days, President Trump Has Made 3,001 False or Misleading Claims: The Fact Checker’s Ongoing Database of the False or Misleading Claims Made by President Trump since Assuming Office...
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Traveling Spies and Liminal Texts: Cold War Culture in Asian Spy Films
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Kong, and the US, suggest that Suarez's primary focus was profit making, something that is in opposition to the image of the principled and politically-conscious auteur of national cinemas. In a biography posted on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website, Suarez is depicted as having humble origins...
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The Dead are Coming: Border Politics and Necropower in Europe
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... , 7 – 15 . London : Zone Books . Huyssen Andreas . 1997 . “ The Voids of Berlin .” Critical Inquiry 24 ( 1 ): 57 – 81 . Informationsverbund Asyl and Migration . 2017 . “ Freedom of Movement .” Asylum Information Database , www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/germany...
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“There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in the US before the recent crisis: Between 1996 and 2005 alone, the federal government issued more than 30 major rules requiring new financial disclosure protocols, and the data has piled up. The [Security and Exchange Commission's] public document database, Edgar, now catalogs 200 gigabytes of filings...
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