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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Maja Suderland The following reflections on aspects and dimensions of social life in national Socialist concentration camps take their point of departure from the widely held view that, because the concentration camp represents an unprecedentedly extreme case of a relationship of subordination...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
...” are both so traumatically disjunctive that no act of making strange can make them stranger. 3 In this extreme condition, a critical shift might need to occur – or be recognized. 4 The role of aesthetic images could be redefined as a task of refamiliarization . Refamiliarization returns images...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sean Cubitt Abstract COVID-19 is now part of the resources out of which any future must be made. The temptation is to curl back into private misery and fatalism. The opportunity is to further the design of neonationalist, neoliberal returns to pre-1917 norms of extreme wealth, extreme poverty...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... diagnoses the twentieth century appears as a time of confusions, this is because it is an “Age of Extremes” (Eric Hobsbawm): an age of revolts against complexities by the critical reference of all actual or objective states of affairs to a basic cause or fundamental factor. The subject of this extremist...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 March 2005
...George E. Marcus Many of the regions of the globe where anthropologists have traditionally worked are now places overtaken by extreme forms of social and political disorder – epidemics, ethnic violence, the dissolution of state apparatuses – necessitating the intervention of supranational forms...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 150–155.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Alphonso Lingis What is called physical torture comprises methods of producing severe pain. What is called psychological torture comprises methods to produce exhaustion, fear, anxiety, hopelessness, desperation, psychic disorganization, loss of control of mental states and acts, and extreme...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in contemporary debates if we are prepared to moderate typical 1960s extremism. © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2010 If Marx was the theorist of the structural revolution, who is his equivalent for the cultural revolution? There are several possible candidates, including figures popular in the 1960s...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2020
... presents the readers with a case study of General Viktor Zolotov’s challenge of the leader of the liberal opposition Aleksei Naval′nyi to a duel in September 2018. Seen through an analytical lens, this seemingly absurd speech act and its reception reveal the extremes in the spectrum spanning from the ideal...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of extreme, confrontational, crude, and violent cultural strategies of contestation, such as vandalism, destruction, and removal of cultural artifacts from the colonialist or apartheid era. The article aims to reappropriate predominantly stigmatizing and derogatory depictions and theorizations...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... to argue that these performances force a visual rupture in the narcotically identikit Chinese cityscape, as the nation’s new poor, so often invisible to their social others on the street, climb to the highest urban summits and command extreme attention. Once there, they turn the rooftop into a site...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 284–287.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the importance of Bauman’s history and place within a tradition of thought sensitive to the madness of inhuman utopia is founded upon the extremism of the present. In Modernity and the Holocaust (1991) Bauman outlines this madness, and it is possible to identify comparable tendencies in the populist politics...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 214–232.
Published: 01 July 2020
... to come to a better understanding of these online fringe spaces, including the surge of reactionary political extremism they gave rise to in recent years. As such the framework of the DVW serves at least four somewhat distinct purposes. First, it identifies fringe web communities on the basis of a shared...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 March 2012
... their social functions and effects are complex, highly contested, and often extremely ambiguous. 2 In general, media spectacles therefore cover a wide range of phenomena and have unpredictable effects. As the examples cited above suggest, media spectacles can be vehicles of democratic protest and upheaval...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
... decades at an extremely low rate. It is estimated that this tax break windfall was worth $360 million by 2017 ( Klein 2017 : 142). In his business autobiography The Art of the Deal , Trump devotes page after page to Trump Tower. He writes, for instance, about how, in the construction of Trump Tower...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 222–230.
Published: 01 July 2008
... to become one, for most, remained mostly in the realm of fantasy and projection. There was no celebrity culture per se – no Real World full of American Idols , Apprentices , Big Brothers , Survivors , Bachelors , Extreme Makeovers , Fear Factors , Rich Girls , Trailer Park Boys , Art Stars...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 March 2014
... distant relations to one another. These are disciples and true believers who follow their convictions to the most extreme ends, often with disastrous results. The portraits show their emotional turbulence and the frustration of matching their ideals with the real. My parents were restless...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... We see a US Army tank approaching Dana. Suddenly - as eye, camera and weapon align and a shot traverses the image screen - We feel the camera-body tumble to the ground, collapsing into an extreme closeup. Seconds of pure...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 November 2015
... philosophies are extremely rare. They’re still, let’s say, slightly eccentric bodies of thought. So, as I see it, a man like Nietzsche is very important, not as a guide, but as someone who actually formulated and freed up a certain pluralism, a pluralist thinking. This is a bit abstract, but I’m sure you can...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 158–169.
Published: 01 July 2013
... who are relegated to its margins. “I call California the situation of this skin today,” Vachez proclaims, indicating that it embodies the most extreme tendencies of “Western Caesarism” (le césarisme de l'Occident), that expansive westward drive to conquer, subordinate, and purify geographical...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 July 2005
... no mention of the specificities of gender and sexuality among Islamic peoples, nor of key points of intersection between them and the metropolitan sex/gender system. Without September 11 th and the extreme US response, Binnie is able to show something of what is at stake for people who migrate, but he...
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