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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... This painting signaled a shift away from my previous work, the moment in which I began to track politically influenced, man-made marks etched on the surface of the earth. At the time, I was reading Manuel De Landa's A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997) , which compares the development of history...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 244–251.
Published: 01 July 2019
... is nowhere evident in Marx@200 , nor could it be. The earth is not what it was in Marx’s day. And neither is industry. But the despoiling of the former by the latter began its ruinous heyday in his lifetime. We are now reaping that whirlwind at the same time as we continue to draw inspiration from Marx’s...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 3 Baotou, China, 2014: a rare-earth refinery with centrifuges concentrates rare-earth ore into industrial application before it is force dried into powder form. China produces 76 percent of the world’s rare-earth magnets.
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 6 Unfolding the skin of planet Earth in E-Phemeral Skin (2021), using a DALL-E 2 AI system to produce images from the first sentence of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy , http://chatonsky.net/ephemeral-skin/ .
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicole Starosielski This article documents how thermal manipulation is critical to the transformation of the earth’s raw materials into media and to maintaining those materials as media. Through an examination of thermal practices, including mineral extraction, the use of air-conditioning in media...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 6 Unfolding the skin of planet Earth in E-Phemeral Skin (2021), using a DALL-E 2 AI system to produce images from the first sentence of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy , http://chatonsky.net/ephemeral-skin/ . ...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
... between some intellectual assumptions in the mode of presentation chosen by Sharr and the provocation of Heidegger’s thinking. The challenge of Heidegger’s thinking is to resist the mode of a biographical survey, a challenge focused above all in his elusive concept of the “earth.” This uncanny...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the earth in real time. Because these systems provide extensions of human senses and are also autonomous, they simultaneously extend and delimit the power and imaginary of the human subject as actor and political agent. By thinking through these multiple large-scale interrelated remote-sensing systems...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 404–414.
Published: 01 November 2014
...John Beck In late 2012 a communications satellite called EchoStar XVI launched into space from Kazakhstan where it remains in a geostationary orbit around Earth. The satellite contains artist and geographer Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures , a collection of one hundred images, sourced from...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the importance of Middle-earth to New Zealand's national identity in the twenty-first century. This hybrid identity was then articulated as something that stood against labor actions by film industry workers, culminating in citizen marches against local labor. It closes by exploring ways that the importance...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How can we cultivate an underground multispecies justice with beings whose lifeworlds are unknown and unknowable? This article examines this question through a consideration of stygofauna: miniscule deep-time creatures who make their home in the watery seams of the earth...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 177–199.
Published: 01 July 2023
... as a temporary conceptual anchor for a relation specific to the technological framing of a polyscalar Earth. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 elemental media speculative design Anthropocene architecture studio practice The research for this article has been...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... acceptance of the limits of human life on Earth, the most devastating assessments of humanity’s future have also produced utopian proposals for the reimagining of human potentiality below and above the surface of the planet. In a real sense, then, catastrophe has become the precondition for the establishment...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... sovereignty, acknowledging the relations denied by bare death. The nomos of the earth is reinterpreted as a nomos of the soil, reenvisioning a Europe beyond borders and welcoming “difference” as the grounds for responsible politics. This suggests that the nomos of the earth as well as the nomos of the camp...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with metonymic shorthands for the various crises facing humanity and its existence on the earth in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. In this article, the authors ask what becomes of the urban in light of the acceleration of extant technologies for visualization and calculation—the very organization...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 5 The extinction image in Dysnovation (2022), provoking visitors to imagine a future in which humans are no longer around on Earth. Courtesy of the artist.
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 2 The finished vases are sized in relation to the amount of waste created in the production of three items of technology that use rare earth: a smartphone, a featherweight laptop, and the cell of a smart-car battery.
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Published: 01 March 2010
“I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be taken for a token of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis) windmill turbines are the only monumental sculptures suited to symbolize the era of climate change
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1 Bayan Obo, China, December 21, 2010: inside the highly restricted Bayan Obo rare earth mine. The treasure mountain deposit is the world’s largest and, as of 2005, is responsible for 45 percent of global rare earth metal production. Photographer Toby Smith gained access in 2010 by waiting
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 3 Baotou, China, 2014: a rare-earth refinery with centrifuges concentrates rare-earth ore into industrial application before it is force dried into powder form. China produces 76 percent of the world’s rare-earth magnets. ...
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