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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Mark Featherstone Abstract In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical story of the resurrection...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
...-ranging as those of military technology, aesthetics, philosophy, science, and psychology. These discourses tell the same story from different angles. The horizon has either already disappeared into the absolute distance or a spectral remnant of it remains as the target for an action that would reduce...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... are centered upon a key Baudrillardian term, seduction , either in its “hot” (Don Juan) form or in its “cold” ludic form. When viewed from the perspective of immersive, immediate, and immanent forms of distance-abolishing media (such as smartphones and GPS), the summer sex scandals of 2011 instantiate shifts...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... perception of movement through time, and relates this to Virilio’s concept of the negative horizon, which rushes toward humanity rather than endlessly moving into the future. At this point the negative horizon recalls the abyssal screen that is simultaneously infinite distance and absolute surface...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Ryan Bishop Remote sensing using nanosensors continue a long trajectory of multisensory teletechnologies devised by the military for surveillance and weapons verification at a distance. These remote-sensing systems form the basis of current military and corporate plans to monitor all elements...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
... fundamental provocations, forcing attention to the question of how to create more livable worlds through situated acts of distancing without descending back into narratives of eradication. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 entanglement eradication animals new materialism insects...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
... musicians whose art was historically a form of lament. She contrasts this with the versions of rap and hip-hop that, she says, use “cool” to distance men from their feelings. Whether empowering or a form of further disenfranchisement, the strategies of cool are the subject of this article. It asks how...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that is both political and epistemological, one in which sensemaking can no longer claim to take place at a distance from the infrastructure that mediates such processes but is instead thoroughly and inescapably immanent to it, a situation that prevents contact with the outside. His films are about what he...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to his claims in Negative Dialectics and Einführung in die Dialektik , in which he fears the suppressive force of reason and conceptualization that he, for instance, decodes in the Hegelian absolute or the Cartesian “I.” Here, Adorno frequently refers to an emphatic distance to the object that remains...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 184–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that accompany these shifts in discourse. Part of this securitization involves the creation and maintenance of publics of border enforcement through the distancing of detainable populations from mainland territory. By publics, I refer to the constitutive outside, those who are not themselves in detention...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... trade (Donovan and Bonney 2006 ). Indeed, attention was sometimes drawn to the potential of high-speed air transport to also “mobilize” undesirable organisms (such as viruses) across vast distances, in a rapid and potentially problematic manner. Historically, as James Meek ( 2020 ) notes...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 144–157.
Published: 01 July 2013
... dimension, that is, the “here” and “now” of the desiring body in its position of denotation. The element that discourse assumes and assimilates is the distance toward the object that it designates. On the one hand, discourse, narration, and visual presentation are the outcome of arranging objects...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of perception, in particular the reductive effects of real time, the neutralization of distance and deferred time as a measure of reflective consciousness, and the confusion generated by the fusion of object and image in the screen wars between representation and presentation. The “squared horizon” captures...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 391–393.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to transmit information (whether by reading a script in a call center or retweeting a meme) rather than intersubjectively producing meaning. This stimulates a desire in us to be constantly connected but to keep others at a distance as we develop a distaste for the messiness and potential confusion of real...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 359–384.
Published: 01 November 2009
... that occurred, at a distance, in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya. Coinciding with the rise of ideologies of cultural majoritarianism and religious fundamentalism, Sundaram's interest in experimental forms and practices appear to originate as a response to the com-munalization of Indian politics...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of perspective may be understood with equal justice as a triumph of the distancing and objectifying sense of the real, and as a triumph of the distance-denying human struggle for control; it is as much a consolidation and systematization of the external world, as an extension of the domain of the self...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of spatial and temporal distance in the production of luxury: How many material—if remote—acts of aggression do we take on a daily basis as we consume luxurious products? 7 See Sharma’s (2014 : 9–10) discussion of Doreen Massey’s work. 6 Also see Eikenberry and Kluver (2004...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 119–129.
Published: 01 July 2022
... me to suffer. They cause me to suffer because in the proximity of their suffering, I feel them infinitely distanced from me—and I feel infinitely far from them. I feel that this distance is our lost community. This distance is paradoxically the vanishing point of our common suffering...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2020
... past; a Uighur man and woman in traditional headgear posed by the edge of a small lake in Kashgar; a ferris wheel and partially built apartment blocks in the distance hinting at the urban development that has proven so contentious in the city. These images capture what Walter Benjamin ([1931] 2009...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 206–225.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in relation to the species. And I believe, I don’t know, I’m not sure, but I believe that our species is characterized precisely by the process of individuation, that is to say, by a distance between the individual and the species. This distance can come from verbal language, from self-consciousness...
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