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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 263–273.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of other societies and cultures. And he finds that the expedition nowise changed him. Leiris’s place in literature is especially founded on the series of autobiographical books L’âge d’homme (1939; Manhood [1963]) and the four volumes of La Règle du jeu ( The Rules of the Game [1948, 1955, 1966...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... doctor, an expedition he joins some time in 1944. He travels north nominally as a recorder of the fieldworkers’ “psychic reactions,” but is puzzled by the whole operation. He had, he writes, “little notion of what object the expedition was pursuing” (p. 33), suspecting from the number of meteorologists...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 277–288.
Published: 01 July 2024
... opportunities to think beyond the human, as I experienced in the digital archives of the Royal Geographical Society: In the Herbert Ponting collection of the archive was a series of photographs from the Terra Nova (British Antarctic) Expedition, 1911–13, which ended with the death of Captain Robert Falcon...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 51–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Francisco Pizarro (1471–1541)—who led the expedition to South America that conquered the Inca Empire, claimed the lands for Spain, and captured and killed the Incan emperor Atahualpa—and the ritual aims of gold objects such as plates for the Inca. Lingis describes this in terms of the “wonder of gold...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 309–313.
Published: 01 November 2017
... someone living his life with resolve, as an arduous expedition to the assumed end, in favor of the tourist, of the traveler or sightseer, that has taken place. Rather, we are witnessing today the return of the pilgrim (one thinks of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame: dressed like a tourist yet in reality...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... by Henderson Teri , ix–x. Yakima, WA : Kanyer . Smith Nicole R. 2009 . “ Wangechi Mutu: Feminist Collage and the Cyborg .” MA thesis, Georgia State University . https://doi.org/10.57709/1234428 . Stedman John . 1796 . Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
...) puts it. Artists Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen offer in their photo essay “Take a Good Lamp” a sort of a reverse engineering of that conveyor belt. Their artistic expedition to the Democratic Republic of the Congo entered the geographies of one of the most important minerals for digital culture...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 194–201.
Published: 01 July 2017
... a sustainable indigenous future look like? Many thanks to Jim Blasi for preliminary design help. References Bleichmar Daniela . 2012 . Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lowe Lisa...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in the voluminous notes Innis produced during fieldwork expeditions of the 1920s. The most famous of these was in 1924, when the young professor of political economy traveled by rail to northern Alberta to embark on a journey through the Mackenzie River basin that retraced routes important to the Canadian fur trade...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and without warning; from everyday life in surburbia to a butterfly-collecting expedition in Colorado. Attempts to pin the Cold War to specific locations and manage its anxieties often failed – as Daniel Cordle’s essay in this volume suggests, even the home had leaky boundaries – but what is suggested again...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and decolonizing ecopolitical aesthetic, which includes not only beasts, forests, and oceans but the humans who suffer most from exploitation of—and as—environments, and who have most to gain from repoliticizing Green politics. We cannot rescind Cook’s expedition, we cannot undo the tragedy of the enclosures...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... his time preaching to the sharks. Ahab's name was, of course, reserved for Andreas Baader, the group's self-appointed domineering alpha phallus. Given the limited success of Ahab's whaling expedition, the choice of names does not radiate great optimism. So why Moby Dick ? The answer appears obvious...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that facilitated the flows of goods and services also expedite the transmission of pathogens. The pharmacological structure of the network becomes apparent: the extensiveness of SARS-CoV-2 is an unsurprising outcome of an interconnected global network. The method of tracking these circulations and movements...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 2012
... : Kittler is punning on Heinrich Schliemann (1822–90), amateur archaeologist of Troy. In April 2004 Kittler headed a sound-archeological expedition to the Li Galli islands in the Gulf of Salerno to investigate Siren-related acoustic phenomena.  3. Translators' note : Kittler's translation...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 392–408.
Published: 01 November 2023
... project of this law. The document was approved in the first discussion by the National Assembly. It was then opened for public comment. The collective action generated an expedited call through social networks, mainly WhatsApp and IG. Through the Zoom platform, Black women who are part of institution...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
... are privileged; others are ignored. Whether facilitating the bodily violence of the slave market or expediting dispossession in the financial markets, by constructing and formalizing distinctions, technically driven calculation amplifies inequalities and reinforces hegemonies. This approach thus seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
...: grab what you can, look after number one, and find respite from the pressures and injustices of life in another shopping expedition. This was the barbarism of postmodern capitalism's structural violence adopted, turned inward, and enacted by its most marginalized subjects; it was the direct raw...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 March 2006
... factories would be nearly self-sufficient, and as nearly free from the political nuisances of city water and city sewage and city electricity and city light as may be. And its adoption might well expedite the urban decentralization. (Ibid.: appendix) Although housing would turn out...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2014
... him to meet the Native American man’s determined, accusing gaze. The man at the desk, a bureaucrat methodically expediting the book burning that Godard is restaging in the library, disappears after the young woman repeats in heavily accented English “strangers to the same land.” After adding another...
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