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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... reality and that of personal freedom. Baudrillard's perfect crime becomes, for Dantec, the alibi for an absolute crime: the invisible and perfectly integrated acts of numerous serial killers operating with impunity. However, it is not so much individual acts such as murder that constitute evil...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 465–476.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Mark Featherstone In this review essay I explore three of Baudrillard's late works, Why Hasn't everything Already disappeared?, The Agony of Power , and Carnival and Cannibal , and explain how they represent his final word on the notion of integral reality and the intelligence of evil. Expanding...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Lee Barron Employing Jean Baudrillard's concept of integral reality, as articulated within The intelligence of evil or the Lucidity Pact , and linking it with Tim Guest's journalistic/anthropological account of his experiences within Second Life , the article assesses the extent to which...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 339–344.
Published: 01 November 2011
... it can be seen as the ultimate power of evil. The problem is that, nowadays, the evil is largely virtual. A good example of this is Iraq, where the weapons of mass destruction have, after all, never been found. The worst thing is that, by claiming to fight this evil, centers of infection get created all...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of The Transparency of Evil : Marx was right on capitalism for the most part, but he did not grasp some important things. Capitalism was the only mode of production that has ever existed—an exception. The bourgeoisie was the only “class” that has existed—an exception. Instead of the proletariat overthrowing...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 385–397.
Published: 01 November 2012
... garrisons, barracks, and hangars. We are well advised, therefore, to undertake a small excursion into the history of philosophy before continuing with the history and future of war. Whether we choose to adopt Ronald Reagan's terminology and conjure up evil empires or decide to employ the diction...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 March 2012
... a nightmare in the minds of the living.” Another on the right states, “Man must grow better and more evil. This do I teach, the most evil is necessary for the superman's best” (from Nietzsche ). Clearly, this exit does not lead the audience to a metaphysical realm. We do not see Muqaddimah as a final step...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Consequently, Szanto ( 2020 : 461) argues that “hatred involves a generalizing and essentializing evaluation of its targets as hateworthy or evil” and that hatred is most commonly located in collective settings. Similarly, Kolnai ( 2013 : 142) describes hatred as “directed at the ‘nature’ of its object...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., Benhabib, and Postone 1986 : 26). Evidently, the play confronted a sensitive issue that West Germany had tried to relegate to the past. Then again, the figure of the Rich Jew raises reasonable questions regarding the ethics of representation. Did Fassbinder uncritically blame the evils of capitalism...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288–292.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the idea that the Holocaust is so horrific that it should not be studied at all or, if it is, it cannot be encompassed within a study of civilization. There is also a rejection of the idea that it can be accounted for by some presocial drive to do evil. Bauman relies mainly on Max Weber here and argues...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
...] . The Perfect Crime . London : Verso . Baudrillard J. 1998 . Paroxysm . London : Verso . Baudrillard J. 2005a [2004] . The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact . Oxford : Berg . Baudrillard J. 2005b . The Conspiracy of Art . New York : Semiotext(e...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and figure of the outlaw, prisoner and revolutionary in the specific – both literal and philosophical – senses implied in being “voleur, traître, et pédéraste” (a thief, a traitor, and a homosexual), and in living “Evil unto death.” To live Evil unto death ( vivre le Mal jusqu'á la mort ), Genet explains...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
...’ ends in many cases can be achieved only at the price of morally dubious or at least dangerous means and the possibility, or even the probability, of evil side effects” ( Weber 1978: 218 ). Trickster is the daemon of political life precisely because “he is a moral, not im moral. He embodies...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of not will but potentiality. In the Greek culture, the primacy is accorded to potential, not to the will: one is responsible because one carries out an action, not because one has willed the action. This is primarily what is expressed by the Socratic maxim that “every evil action is actually ignorance...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... adversarial dimension . . . What is happening is that nowadays the political is played out in the moral register ” (ibid.: 5). So, to provide a few examples of my own, after the events of 9/11, North Korea, Iran, and Iraq were notoriously positioned by George W. Bush in terms of an “axis of evil” ( Bush 2002...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 327–343.
Published: 01 November 2018
...,” civilization, and a corresponding preoccupation with such matters as “good” or “evil.” In other words, the divine law in the Garden of Eden was a natural, biological law that compelled human creatures to live out forceful, natural, biological lives. This was the law that was wasting all primordial potential...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of Terrorism . Translated by Turner Chris . London : Verso . Baudrillard Jean . 2005a . The Conspiracy of Art . Edited by Lotringer Sylvère and translated by Hodges Ames . New York : Semiotext(e) . Baudrillard Jean . 2005b . The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Republican Party Cold War orthodoxy that villainized the former Soviet Union, now Russia, as the Evil Empire and the Red Menace. Many of us grew up in a Cold War culture that included copious films and TV shows with evil Russians, and experienced broadcast and print media, schooling, and other institutions...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 445–464.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in this respect. Among the works of literature which he cites, none are detective stories. In keeping with his own fondness for describing his work as science fiction (e.g. in The Transparency of Evil ), he was always more likely to turn to SF for rhetorical effect, as in the case of Arthur C. Clarke's...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 311–320.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Goodman which provides a further perspective on the productive potential of the digital anomaly. Finally, Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey's “Towards and Evil Media Studies” presents a theoretical centerpoint to the collection, setting out sixteen stratagems for the continued integration of the anomalous...
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