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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 (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 Thinking about and putting up for consideration, what is really essential (what we can call a more moderate version of a recognizable 1960s' idea) can stimulate some peoples' imaginations...
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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 (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 (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
... to Western culture.” 4. Greenwald (2011) points out that by equating “Terrorism” with al-Qaeda or Islamic radicalism, US (and to some extent global Western) media discourse covers over that white male extreme Right terrorism is much more prevalent in Western countries than Islamic terrorism is. Yet...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-farage-photo-arron-banks-raheem-kassam-andy-wigmore-garry-gunster-a7416836.html . Ouellette Laurie Banet-Weiser Sarah 2018 . “ Special Issue: Media and the Extreme Right: Editor’s Introduction .” Communication, Culture and Critique 11 , no. 1 : 1 – 6 . Phillips Whitney...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
... published an opinion piece that responded to the statement by urging its readers that “we must guard against hatred” (Dalrymple 2022 ) by embracing tolerance, with hate having no sense of proportion. While Sturgeon and some of her colleagues subsequently sought to display her statement as less extreme than...
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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 (2015) 11 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., or in secular philosophy, we always find monistic philosophies, and pluralistic 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...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 March 2014
... 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. In the Mayflower series, I draw from the perspective of the zealot. The pilgrims were a splinter group, the first of many...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
... witness the emergence of a new modality of spectacle. It is characterized by a shift toward real-time engagements and continuous, heightened states of alertness and preparedness, in such a way as to generate a state of extreme readiness for both conflict and libidinous consumption. It blends combat...
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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...