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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Bülent Diken The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle . A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the economic element in the nexus...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 July 2005
... prescient in his suspicion of self-rule hogtied by indirect representation. He stated publicly at the 1787 Constitutional Convention that the government they had outlined “is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 July 2012
... this antistatism becomes still more problematic, given the long tradition of orientalist thought about despotism and authoritarianism being natural to the Chinese. Hence Mao, and hence the persistence of Confucianism—according to the liberal standpoint. And the general point of much of the Chinese New Left...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... apparatuses of capture need their lifeblood from the outside, from the domain of the useless. And in a world under the yoke of the despotism of the useful, the use of the useless (of contemplation) is overseen or censored. Like the “accursed share,” free use is that which cannot be included within and thus...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of Alexis de Tocqueville’s second edition of Democracy in America (1840) and its warning that apathy may lead to despotism in a democracy. However, it is suggested that democratic theory and practice do not sufficiently respond to concerns about an expository society, and solutions must therefore...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2015
...] Coppola’s Apocalypse Now , which are simulating a US Cavalry, which in turn are simulating Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” have a long history. When the Persian emperor Cyrus inherited the art of riding from his Median grandfather, the old despots of the ancient Orient were vanquished by the High King...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... not as a political art but as an activity circumscribed by the domain of the oikos within the despotic economy ( Aristotle 1995 : 20). In this sense, the Bible mobilizes the “economic” power of the Aristotelian despot under the sign of political theology. Chamayou, however, insists that a very different kind...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 163–181.
Published: 01 July 2014
... could not guarantee, power could easily be abused. The democratic majority could take society hostage or have itself taken hostage by demagogues preying on mass anxieties ( Safford 2002 : 9–10). As equality gives way to disorderliness and self-interest, power is transferred from the masses to the despot...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the present. But is this more than a salvage operation? Just as the liberating, progressive aspects of modern culture were trashed as some kind of state despotism and buried in the rubble of demolished tower-blocks, so the hope that informed and, in many ways, shaped modernist culture remains a dynamic force...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2011
... as it was in the past. “The revolutionary problem today,” he argued, “is to find some unity in our various struggles without falling back on the despotic and bureaucratic organization of the party or State apparatus: we want a war-machine that would not recreate a State apparatus, a nomadic unity … that would...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Bourguiba for his crimes and turn the page or to somewhat settle an old grudge, but to bring into relief the forgotten continuities between Bourguiba’s era of “enlightened despotism” and that of his “unenlightened” usurper and successor, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled Tunisia from 1987 until his...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Locker is not explicitly historically specific or localized. The film does not represent Iraq as internal to our time and space. It understands Iraq as the ground zero of history, not as a part of it. It is a space prior to difference, not merely a “different” space. Just as the concept of “despotism...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... by Slavick have experienced their primary enculturation in nations that, in many cases, have only in recent decades emerged from colonial rule, some of the nations having been wracked by wars during the artists' lifetimes, while others continue to be governed by despots and military occupations...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
...” obsessively trimmed the truth to ft the template of reason. Paradoxically, for Kundera, fiction amounts to the only truth in a world where the (itself fictive) notion of “truth” assumes a sinister, despotic, totalitarian character. For Kundera, on Bauman's rendering, artistic fiction is thus “a continuous...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... redundant in terms of the process of valorization itself, and shifted the locus of struggle outside the factory walls. Accordingly, we witness a transition from the “mass worker” of classical factory despotism to the post-Fordist “socialized worker”—and, concomitantly, from “formal” subsumption (in which...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 333–346.
Published: 01 November 2021
... network that will quickly engulf post-9/11 America). If Deadwood stages the eclipse of the rugged individual at the hands of an inhuman technological grid, it also announces the emergence of a sinister new posthuman industrialist sovereign. This role is occupied by the despotic mining and media...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., in “that immense, difficult, and tangled criticism of despotism”), and the third, today, with its “phobia about the state” ( Foucault 2007 : 76). In this context “liberal governmentality” is situated as something that emerged out of the sovereign raison d’état with the rise of the bourgeoisie in the second...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
... counterparts, they become highly deceptive. For instance, although Bond is explicitly British, his reinscription in Hollywood makes him synecdochical of American heroism. In addition, very few Bond villains are Russians. But because these villains are almost always megalomaniacal, despotic, and shown to rule...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 139–164.
Published: 01 July 2005
... the conditions, knowledge and skills that allow people to embrace hope rather than cynicism, to be responsible to themselves and others rather than surrender their sense of agency to either corporations or authoritarian despots, to take an essential step toward self-representation rather than mimicking...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... that occludes and sustains the brutality of neoliberal capitalism. Free trade establishes possibilities through which we narrate our relation to enjoyment. Žižek suggests that what makes desire possible in contemporary conditions is the “despotic figure which stands for the primary jouisseur ,” the one who...
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