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The Condemnation of Hate and the Violence of the Status Quo
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., that is, their claim that hatred is a valid response to the existential violence inflicted by borders or the police. The cases of activists embracing hate indicate that the boundaries set by the condemnation of hate are too limited to appropriately account for the violence of the status quo. The condemnation of hate...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... writes, “has left in its wake a multitude of destroyed subjects, many of whom are deeply convinced that their immediate future will be one of exposure to violence and continuous existential threat” (115). Such conditions, in many instances, produce a longing for certainty and lost origins. Hypermodernity...
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Žižek's Pandemic: On Utopian Realism and the Spirit of Communism
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... beyond its own reproduction. In conclusion, Žižek ( 2020 ) explains that the virus presents humanity with an existential choice between the endless violence of unthinking Freudian (2003) drive and the possibility of a utopian form of communism based on human vulnerability and our raising up...
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“Even the Rats Don't Come Here”: The Eastern European Roma in Contemporary Paris
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... never be denied by including the other, Cioran's city is thus a black space of barely contained hatred and violence. This is Cioran's Paris, a city of existential despair, fantasy, revulsion, and deep hate. My thesis in this article is that this is also the Paris of the contemporary Romanian Roma...
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Care and Carelessness in the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler's Three Conversions and Their Accompanying Heideggers
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., it is also, Stiegler insists, a disruption of the processes of natural selection accomplished through the violence of the knife that incises the earth or cuts the throat of the lamb. This inherently technical violence must therefore be tempered and sublimated through the rituals of worship that raise...
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The Production of Wounded Attachment: Reactionary Sentiment in Post-2016 Turkey
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... The period following the coup attempt has been interpreted either as a form of democratic backsliding (Tansel 2019 ) or as an intensification of existing regimes of media capture, neoliberal exploitation, and state violence (Bargu 2018 ; Erensü and Alemdaroğlu 2018 ). In addition to enacting a state...
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The Politics of Cool: Black Masculine Subjectivities in the Art of Donald Glover and Mohau Modisakeng
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the politics of cool intersects with race and gender. The article considers the epistemology of “cool” across different consumer media. The music video, This Is America , it is argued, resists easy classification but expands the concept of and jouissance of ‘cool’ so that violence too becomes a kind...
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The Negative Abyss: Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... . The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lacan Jacques . 2007 . Écrits . New York : Norton . Laing Ronald David . 2010 . The Divided Self: An Existential Study...
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The Politics of Transcendence
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... but also differentiated the sectors of action – private and public, religious and secular – in a given community. Such configurations are liminal in the sense that people experience existential uncertainty when confronted with territorial disintegration, moral collapse, or the threat of civil war...
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The Southern City as Urban Lab
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 370–372.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... This xenophobic city, which so aggressively resents having “hordes” of Black African outsiders within its boundaries, would not exist without them. National, regional, and continental flows of migration are critical to Johannesburg, both practically and existentially. This is hardly a new revelation...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
... journey in space and time within registers, denoting the landscape or mapping pilgrimage routes. I have used this idea of multiples of the Self to express an array of psychodynamic and existential realities experienced by the figure. Another foundational pictorial device is the use of shallow or flattened...
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CAN A PLACE Think? ON ADAM Sharr’s HEIDEGGER’S HUT
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., as engaged as much in day-to-day existential commitments as with textbook “problems of philosophy.” To situate oneself as the thinker in a mountain cabin over Todtnauberg is already to enact certain existential decisions. The hut and surrounding pines, the little spring that falls continually...
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On the Struggle for Epokhē and the Crisis of the Savoirs : Stiegler contra Will Self / Will Self contra Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of sadistic violence, the acting out of the drives: these are the logical outcomes of this collapse. From a Guattarian, critical postmedia perspective, we must question the fluxes, existential territories, incorporeal universes, and the machinic phylum in this prison scenario to better understand...
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A Predictably Obedient Riot: Postpolitics, Consumer Culture, and the English Riots of 2011
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and is therefore worth exploring in detail. An air of conformity pervaded the English “riots” in August 2011. Amid the brief flurries of lawlessness, violence, and destruction it was also possible to catch sight of the depressing drudge of neocapitalist cynical realism and ideological uniformity...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
... conflicts, and systematic tactics of violence that mark our era. 16 See Thomson 2011 . 17 See the artist Hasan Elahi’s project Tracking Transience (2014) as a critique of the ominous implications of overwhelming networks of data streams. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Richard...
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Transitional Justice beyond the Human: Indigenous Cosmopolitics and the Realm of Law in Colombia
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... decades of armed conflict. Although the law was a major step toward addressing the legacy of violence, it was strongly criticized by Indigenous and Afro-Colombian social movements because the government did not seek their prior and informed consent during its formulation. 1 Additionally...
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On the Beach
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... is about a certain kind of anxious passivity in the face of incomprehensible catastrophe, but it is also a narrative about work and idleness. As such, the idea of being “on the beach” invites consideration of the shore as a liminal space where often conflicting social and existential issues of meaning...
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The Care of the Possible
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 339–354.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and world—that, indeed, foster the creation of existential territories. In other words, we need to think in terms of attention to humans and nonhumans and, politically and existentially, of entering into a relation with them. As one way of doing so, I propose here a critical reading or “mesh” of recent...
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Masters of Adaptation: Paul Bowles, the Beats, and “Fellaheen Orientalism”
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of this desert spell, positioning his quest for existential baptism into a writing power situated outside all market logic or the normalcy of middle-class creature comforts Bowles would otherwise possess, “He will go back, whatever the cost in comfort and money, for the absolute had no price” (147). In terms...
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Search and Destroy: Nancy Spero’s War Series , 1966–70
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 111–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the archives of Women Artists in Revolution (n.d.). 17 These paintings were primarily existential, individual cries linked to Spero’s reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex (1949) and other existentialist writings, but not those related directly to the French protests over the Algerian War...
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