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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in his own media as “radical mediocrity” and argue that this has become our first nature. But then, what is the political potential of Sloterdijk’s merger of aesthetics with politics as based on the Bataillan principle of excess rather than lack and scarcity? Should we not differentiate between...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Mark Featherstone In this article, I seek to explore the psychopolitical significance of the contemporary idea of luxury through reference to the Roman concept of luxus , which means excess, extravagance, indulgence, and debauchery. In the first section of the article, I examine the politics...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... a communist study group in the Jim Crow South. What we find is a different aesthetic relationship between self and world that is not prefigured in various forms of liberal reformism. Rather, an excessive surplus is discovered that presses beyond the boundaries of what can be known and what can...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Nancy's work on sense , an ontological concept that evidences the political potentials (or potential politics) of Bazin's predilection for images, which are said to ameliorate our love for reality by transmitting the excessive sense of the world in its ambiguity, creativity, and unpredictability...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the war against terror, its depoliticizing effects. It is a depoliticized picture, in which the lack of antagonistic politics and subjectivities in today's democratic materialist constellation is countered with the inherent excess of the system, the protagonist's (self-)destructive passion for the Real...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 121–137.
Published: 01 March 2012
... was a necessary mediator, and its very nationalist “excess” established the “normal” popular music today. As the “new” Serbia attempts to purge the nationalist and criminal elements of the nineties, turbo-folk “vanishes” and is positioned into the nationalist pathology of Serbia in the nineties. I argue...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
... economists, linked to Murray Rothbard and culminating in the racist-libertarian alliance of the Alt Right, saw difference as rooted in biology and race as an immutable hierarchy of group traits and abilities. While many observers have described the Alt Right as a backlash against the excesses...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... today, this is because its reprogramming of the pitch of existence ( Daseinsstimmung ) paves the way for a “critique of extremist reason,” a “post-Marxist theory of enrichment,” a “new interpretation of dreams,” and a “general economy” of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. © BERG 2007...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
...: cultural politics ; cultural media histories ; the emotional excess ( jouissance, petit à ) of cultural politics; and the deep play mode of aesthetic judgement formed between the practical and ethical, between political economy and expressive art (including political drama), and between individual self...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the capitalist body that eats too much. Here, I read the English translation of Chan’s title, “The Fat Years,” through the lens of Chinese body thought and, more centrally, what I call the Chinese “eating-being” or “being-eating,” in order to develop a theory of excess, lack, and a dysfunctional economic body...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Tereza Kuldova This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich...
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Published: 01 March 2013
apart many former cultural spaces. In the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, some locals believe that excessive mining in recent years angered the mountain god and caused the disastrous earthquake in 2010. (Photo: Qinghai Province)
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... intervention in the economy. Over subsequent decades, neoliberalism remained a marginal economic movement, far outside mainstream Keynesian commitment to regulatory policies designed to stabilize capitalism and protect citizens from its worst excesses. Nonetheless, as they combated the hegemony...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Baudrillard J. 1975 . The Mirror of Production . St. Louis : Telos . Baudrillard J. 1993 . Symbolic Exchange and Death . London : Sage . Bataille G. 1985a . Visions of Excess. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Bataille G. 1985b . Literature and Evil...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... ought to resist any urge to streamline its semiotic excess into the realm of critical rational discourse if we are to understand the potential of its use as resistance—its persistence is to illuminate the irrational. It is such an argument that one must assemble from bits and pieces laid out over...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in the sense that it accepts and theorizes the failure of any particular political system, acknowledging that there will always be an excess that escapes (if ideologically hidden from) articulation ( Laclau 2005 ; Laclau and Mouffe 2001 ; Mouffe 2005 ). This not only means that power and associated exclusion...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of capitalism ( Berg 2005 ; Berg and Eger 2003) . No sooner was luxury recognized as a term that alluded to things of quality, and delight considered an indulgence rather than a necessity without echoes of excess, than economic and political transformations (e.g., the importation into Britain of luxury goods...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., luxury was viewed as morally dubious, corrupting, and a serious ethical failing. As William H. Adams (2012 : 7–8) notes, luxury as “luxus” in classical Latin implied effeminate sensuality, a passion for splendor and pomp, and “luxuria” indicated excess, extravagance, and moral weakness. According...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 78–89.
Published: 01 March 2018
... if, by means of a superfluous effort, they transgressively overstep the way of life held to be right. Thus luxury is an excessive effort that is not judged to be simply an excessive expense in worldly terms, as it would be in the case of a checked shirt or a floral carpet. But the excessive effort...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 465–476.
Published: 01 November 2011
... forever in a perpetual state of post-mortemism is that it is itself reversible and subject to its own viral contaminations. In much the same way that the image destroyed reality in a grotesque spectacle of Promethean excess, it turns out that the product of this Promethean excess, integral reality...
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