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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 259–261.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Maria Alina Asavei Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania , by Preda Caterina , Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 , 319 pages, $139 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-319-57269-7 , $109 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-319-57270-3 © 2019 Duke...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 149–178.
Published: 01 July 2009
... have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, which was used as a clandestine detention and extermination center during the dictatorship (1976–83...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 395–399.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that ephemeral political acts in Chile’s capital, Santiago, not only transformed the city into a fraught political landscape during Allende’s government but also became important markers of resistance and political association during the Pinochet dictatorship. Trumper couples spatial analysis...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... subjects and missiles need to be inscribed and/or programmed to make their own decisions at critical junctures, the latter do not need to be persuaded to go to war. Speer had noted that dictatorships required “men who could think and act independently.” Kittler’s rejoinder is that dictatorships...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 312–329.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: the peculiar context that surrounded its translation process and critical edition, which this piece intends to analyze. In the 1970s, before and after Franco's death, Spanish society was open to complex thinking. The dictatorship was reaching its end, and everyone was hoping to leave behind “the two Spains...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... states as any dictatorship, whether of the markets or of some tyrant. In the era of the all-out information war, is it possible to wage war against people's opinion for any length of time? The answer is no. What we are faced with today is no longer the threat of a democracy of opinion that would...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 189–218.
Published: 01 July 2011
... conditions then prevailing in Central America. Accordingly, a significant object of the movement was to denounce, through music and poetry, social and political injustices, especially the tyranny prevalent in countries governed by dictatorships (see Matta 1988 ). In terms of the Carnival's more...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 225–244.
Published: 01 July 2006
... thirty-odd years ago. It made a real connection between means and ends when so much radical activity was instrumentalist and so was counter revolutionary in reality: electoral and Leninist parties, democratic centralism and representative democracy, dictatorship of the proletariat or reforming...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... be patented and the monopoly position protected. Private ownership of knowledge and concepts was made possible by the fact that they were inseparable from the objects that embodied them materially. They were components of fixed capital. And yet “the dictatorship over needs” is losing its power. Despite...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 July 2019
... her personal traumatic memory of living through the Greek dictatorship. This resulted in a response that stood apart from the quiet of other audience members in the room, and oscillated from anger (the cursing of photographs of Greek dictator Giorgios Papadopoulos) to laughter of recognition...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 430–458.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., let's say, indigenous order of dictatorship: authoritarianism. And perhaps people at the time didn't exactly understand that these continuities with anticolonialism was already there, a condition of possibility for artists like you, and perhaps that is also why Rijks Academy might be a special place...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 174–197.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., particularly seen in works created by and appropriated under the patronage of the dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales, in power 1925–33. The public works of the machadato (Machado’s dictatorship) echoed the visual regimes of the colonial period and Cuba’s history of the plantation. Those works projected...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of dictatorships and lost wars. More importantly, Kittlerian media theory strongly resisted the conventional—if not Pavlovian—identification of media with mass media. Kittler himself did not write much (or well) on television, and he all but ignored social media. To clarify matters, it may be helpful...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... that are “overheated, oversuspicious, overaggressive, grandiose, and apocalyptic in expression” (1965: 4). These characteristics can also apply to those in power: in dictatorships the world over, from Stalin's purges to Kim Jong Il's persecution complex, paranoid fantasies also form a constant marker of the urge...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... they are not between nation states. Afghanistan is hopelessly divided among some forty distinct ethnic groups, with deep religious divisions, and beset by civil war for more than thirty years. Iraq was held together by Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship but, in the throes of the massive US-led invasion and occupation, may...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Negro, see. (102) Here we find Hudson and the five other comrades in his unit, gathered in someone’s house, deep in the Jim Crow south, a racist, apartheid dictatorship enforced by military and paramilitary alike. As Harry Haywood (1978) , another Black communist, writes about his time visiting...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 269–286.
Published: 01 November 2010
... into relation with something external to our individuality. But, just as not all relations are interesting and worthy of deep exploration, so not all links are equal. The dictatorship of the zero-cost link is worth precisely what it costs: nothing. To plot a new connection isn't easy: it means carving up...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... that presented the Cold War as a battle between Good and Evil, with the United States representing democracy and freedom, and the Soviet Union representing authoritarianism, communism, dictatorship, and collectivism. In particular, Republicans vilified the Soviet Union, with Ronald Reagan decrying the “evil...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 203–222.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of politics, due to the one-party dictatorship, there exists a limited and unstable pluralism in the fields of economy, society, and culture. And whilst the leading ideology is still alive officially, as a part of the social reality, belief in it is markedly weakened. This rupture between ideology and reality...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
... “dictatorship of the suburbs and suburban values.” More importantly, Sinclair provides a succinct yet illuminating précis of Keiller’s inspiration: “He was interested in the exploration of architectural space . . . Surrealist texts, Czech modernist poetry, the implications of psychogeography” (299). In a text...
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