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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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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ( Gelassenheit ) beyond biotechnoeconomic nihilism. The conclusion of the article, therefore, shows how Žižek imagines that the pandemic presents humanity with an existential choice about the way we organize social life. This choice is between the biopolitical domination of Chinese authoritarianism that seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the existential and political challenges presented by the Anthropocene's apocalyptic implications. This article argues that the dialectical crises of capitalism and ecology are converging in a cultural condition of collective disorientation : a return of history bereft of futurity. Through an analysis...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in contemporary Paris as nomads and squatters before seeking to explain their objective resistance to sociospatial normalization in terms of the existentialism of the Romanian writer Emile Cioran, who lived a reclusive, alienated life in Paris in the second half of the twentieth century. Contrasting Cioran's...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to make sense of processes of globalization that seem to generate chaos, Saadeti’s work is important because it speaks to key concerns of cultural politics in the early twenty-first century by drawing on existential thought and the tradition of abstraction in art to try to imagine meaningful worlds...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
... is an object, a commodity. In this respect, the luxurious enables us to experience our humanity and represents our existential freedom from the nightmare of necessity, through the extreme, excessive, and transgressive commodity form. There is no doubt that the first part of Wiesing’s book develops...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Personality Disorders . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lacan Jacques . 2007 . Écrits . New York : Norton . Laing Ronald David . 2010 . The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness . London : Penguin . Levinas Emanuel . 1999 . Totality...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 300–302.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of having been a stranger. The Jews of Europe, you maintain, “were the first to experience the harrowing dilemmas, ineradicable ambivalence and indeed awesome aporias of modern life” (6). Here you confront a dimension of being, and of existential being in the European world, that is deeper and darker than...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... to the point of canceling each other out. It is to Slavick's credit that she manages to make the two seem equally viable, even complementary. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 war art rubble aftermath empathy nomadic curation multipolarities existentialism poststructuralism aestheticization...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... Fang Fang's relaying of events in Wuhan surely has resonance far beyond that particular city. Everywhere there has been the same existential jolt. The shock of the pandemic has confronted people with previously unimagined challenges to their lives. And, in so doing, it has reconnected them—or, in many...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., megalomania is choosing you and you have to cope with that as well as you can. The stress has to be put not on the word “mania” but on the fact that it is a kind of suffering. The real term should be “megalopathia,” to be patient of big questions. As soon as you can accept this existential condition you...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
... it via procedures that amount to determining the indeterminate. That Dasein's being is a question for it may lie in the fact that its existential character is grounded in care, Sorge , yet the fact that it flees from the knowledge of its mortality and into average everydayness means that its involvement...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
... with a discussion of the existential qualities of the superfluous in terms of “surpluses of vigilance” – “declining birth rates,” “increases of productivity” and “victimological luxury” – that bear witness to an unprecedented “luxury of reflection” (ibid.: 833ff.). If a philosophical critique is still necessary today...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 262–274.
Published: 01 November 2014
... problematical, and disabling, existential lack in the mainstream debates. Wonder —in order to draw attention to a fundamental human dimension of possibility in encounter (a potential richness far beyond “identification with the other”). Metamorphosis —so as to emphasize the imperative to think in terms...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 92–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... (criticisms that are always perceived as an existential threat) but has also gained a sustained credibility in both Jewish Diasporas and Western societies—sources of support that are vital for the continuation of Israel as a Zionist state. The deactivation of centers of subjectivation involves a change...
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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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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 345–358.
Published: 01 November 2011
... is anticipation ( Vorlaufen ) of death: for Heidegger, Being-there means “being-towards-the-end.” Death is not an as yet unactualized simple-presence, but a threatening immanence that constitutes Dasein at its existential level. It is the ownmost possibility of Dasein, non-relational, not to be outstripped...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
... 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 space. Rather than employing geometric perspectival space, the flattened figure is like an icon situated in the viewer's space...
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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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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 March 2009
...John Armitage © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009 Alphonso Lingis (1933– ) is an American continental philosopher and translator who is currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. 1 Associated with the phenomenology, existentialism, and the ethical...
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