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The New Face of Global Hollywood: Black Hawk Down and the Politics of Meta-Sovereignty
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2005
... global order, even as these networks are able to secure and augment American hegemonic ambitions. In the shift from a sovereign to a meta-sovereign framework, the distinctions of previously dialectical categories – inside/outside, universal/particular, America/world – have collapsed in the face...
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Pale Face, Red Mask: Racial Ambiguity and the Imitation of “American Indian” Facial Expressions
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 319–338.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... This article is concerned with the racialization of facial expression. More specifically, drawing on examples of white imitation, it will seek to provide some clues as to the historical roots and social usage of the archetypal “Indian face.” In part, my interest in facial expression is of a purely...
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Daily Markings on the Face of the Earth
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2009
... explosions and unexplained algal blooms - that is to say, any man-made event or human-influenced process that leaves behind an unintended artifact. By 2007, I had produced my most complex series to date, Daily Markings on the Face of the Earth. The landscapes in this suite capture a paranoiac's...
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 2 Extracted detail from Terry Richardson’s Kibosh (2004) . Face rephotographed, cropped, and rendered in black and white
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Figure 1 Extracted details from Terry Richardson’s Kibosh images (2004) . Faces rephotographed, cropped, and rendered in black and white
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The “Politics of the Faceless”: Proliferated Drone's-Eye Views of Forced Migration
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 112–135.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in which “the human” is often hardly visible at all. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 drones humanitarianism borders visuality migration face The “politics of the faceless” is a phrase used in an interview with the Danish photojournalist Rasmus Degnbol...
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Pixelated Flesh
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Sophie Fuggle The pixel and the technique of pixelating faces belong to a politics of fear and a digital aesthetics of truth that shapes public perceptions of criminality and the threat of otherness. This article draws on Paul Virilio’s account of the pixel in The Lost Dimension to analyze its...
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“Participatory Drama”: The New Left, the Vietnam War, and the Emergence of Performance Studies
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of performing artists could break through the powerlessness many Americans felt in the face of the Vietnam War. They explicitly understood their goal of participatory democracy in terms of turning audience members into performers. In turn, Schechner drew on both the performative nature of antiwar protests...
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Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
... work simplifies complex modern society and ends up in an unmediated politics of education. The article expounds thereby the Janus-faced nature of Stiegler's engagements: an excellent philosophical reflection on contemporary technology, on the one hand, a technologically determinist (and rather...
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Herbert Marcuse and the Promesse Du Bonheur : Politics and Literature in Dark Times
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that in the face of totalitarianism, a literature of intimacy opens a realm of human experience that is outside the control of the regime. Because it carries a memory of joy, it is radically other to the ethos of the regime. Later, in The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), Marcuse returns to the role of aesthetics when...
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“… A Power of Sonorous Paradoxes …”: Passivity, Singularity, and Indifference in Jean-François Lyotard's Readings of John Cage
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
... practice is founded upon a series of logical paradoxes. However, it can be argued that Lyotard's revision of Cage's aesthetic theories in post-Freudian terms more openly faces up to these paradoxes than Cage's own sunny Jungianism does. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Lyotard Cage music...
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“Say Rawr!”: Lyotard, Deleuze/Guattari, and the Refrains of Wesley Willis
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Mickey Vallee Jean-François Lyotard argued repeatedly that the biggest challenge a musician or composer faces is emancipating sound from the tyranny of grand narratives. They labor not in the service of expression but in the exploration of radical methods that constitute what Lyotard terms...
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Going West: Migration and the Post-Communist World in Recent European Film
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
... communist bloc and how the protagonists' fantasies of the West are sustained by ideology even in the face of the harsh realities of contemporary capitalism. Slavoj Žižek's Lacanian model of ideology is applied to the film texts in order to highlight these issues, particularly his notion of “traversing...
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Running to Stand Still: Late Modernity's Acceleration Fixation
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the assumption to be considerably wanting. We suggest that what we are actually witnessing is mere acceleration...
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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
... and relationships through which they share life with wider assemblages of human and other-than-human beings. It is the threat faced by these large communities of life that was invoked by Indigenous organizations when they succeeded in including the territory as a victim in the transitional justice framework...
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Volumes of Transindividuation: The Spaciousness of Localities and the Urban in Bernard Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with metonymic shorthands for the various crises facing humanity and its existence on the earth in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. In this article, the authors ask what becomes of the urban in light of the acceleration of extant technologies for visualization and calculation—the very organization...
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The Fantasy of the Elite Force Aviator: On Dolls and Desire
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Neal Curtis This article explores the relationship between mimesis and fantasy. Taking as its starting point James DerDerian's claims regarding the changing face of the military-industrial complex and its increasing use of the entertainment and cultural industries, the article argues that this move...
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“There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... secret,” a structuring secrecy beyond the logic of revelation – this article questions transparency's link with democracy and its cultural place today as a force of good. Through Derrida's work we must face the proposition that although the choice between secrecy and transparency is presented as one...
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