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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Erich Hörl; Nils F. Schott This contribution outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [ Umweltlichkeit ] has become our condition today: the becoming-environmental of media, of power, of subjectivity, of world, of capital...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2020
... books on Herbert Marcuse, Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy (2016) and Art, Alienation, and the Humanities (2000). In this volume he turns to Marcuse’s writing on ecology, noting that Marcuse stood out among the New Left of the 1970s in recognizing environmental campaigning as an element within...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sean Cubitt Ecocritical work on media has developed from a genre criticism of nature-themed films to address cinema, TV, and media arts more broadly as articulations of the human-natural relation and its mediation through technologies. Embracing the environmental impacts of product life cycles...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 202–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., in the anti-Semitic representation of Jews—and proposes that the conceptual framework of in/hospitability can be substituted in a way that both maintains the logic of un/inhabitability’s beneficial aspects—its illumination of the inequitable distribution of environmental harms in the Anthropocene...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that although Latour’s examination of the relationship between populism and environmental politics is critically important, space needs to be maintained for divergent voices that are currently in danger of being excluded in calls to reclaim “common worlds.” Making this argument does not only, as Benjamin...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and unmitigated exploitation of technical and ecological resources. The challenge is to build a future of public health, wealth, education, and environmental justice. References Boethius . 1999 . On the Consolation of Philosophy . Translated by Watts Victor . Rev. ed. London : Penguin Classics...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Michael M.J. Fischer Three forms of narrative heuristics are identified and explored in the search for political inclusiveness, robustness, and legitimacy: (1) environmental topics: toxics and the need for second-order or reflexive institutions of modernization; water and the need for getting...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
...John Beck; Mark Dorrian Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples of speculative fiction since at least the nineteenth century, but the invention of nuclear weapons and the prospect of global environmental collapse have, certainly since the Cold War, made proposals offering...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Shannon Mattern For millennia, mud and its geologic analogues have bound together our media, urban, architectural, and environmental histories. Some of the first writing surfaces, clay and stone, were the same materials used to construct ancient city walls and buildings, whose facades also...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Patrick Crogan This interview explores the cultural and political dimensions of Stiegler's enterprise. Stiegler explains his conceptualization of cultural politics and why it is key to his analysis of contemporary crises – social, economic, and environmental. He situates his work in relation...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 319–338.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of the stern yet fierce “Indian look” is discussed in the context of the employment and deployment of the “noble savage” within European primitivism and racism. The article concludes with an account of Grey Owl’s capacity to look “more Indian than an Indian” and his redemption as a hero of environmentalism...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 275–280.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ned Rossiter Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies , by Cubitt Sean , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 , 256 pages, $84.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8223-6281-4 , $23.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6292-0 © 2018 Duke University Press 2018...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 412–414.
Published: 01 November 2020
... interests appropriate the universalizing logic of the Anthropocene to blame humanity in its entirety as responsible for environmental devastation brought about by the capitalists, the corporations, and the petrochemical industries. According to Demos, it is necessary to resist obscuring corporate...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 346–360.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Brandon Ballengée © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 The 2010 BP (formerly British Petroleum) Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States ( Belanger et al. 2010 ). The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . Nixon Rob . 2011 . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Parikka Jussi . 2010 . Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Parikka Jussi . 2015 . A Geology...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 July 2018
...). Nevertheless, the text offers a convincing answer to the pressing question of what kind of politics and activism we can pursue in the Anthropocene. Connolly has demonstrated that more-than-human agency can, and should, be incorporated within a humanist environmental politics without it becoming apolitical...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 July 2016
... computer-driven calculation forms the conditions of international financial disaster that lead to obvious repercussions for financially vulnerable national populations, while on the other end of the speed continuum, processes of environmental degradation and toxicity that induce systemic conditions...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., this could mean materials such as mud and plastics; in general geophysics and environmental issues, it could mean a “green” (yet also muddy and dirty) version of media theoretical materiality that is both drawing on media theory and also revising it. A rather good example of recent discussions and research...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... flame-retardants, which release brominated and chlorinated dioxins and furans when burned. These substances are classified as persistent environmental pollutants due to their long half-lives (seven to eleven years, once ingested), which means they tend to accumulate throughout the food chain...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of purity and in the interest of increasing media’s speed and reliability—are directly tied to environmental pollution. The excess rock discarded from the mine itself is only one part of its waste. The chemicals used and emitted from smelters, deemed impurities in the refining process, are a toxic...