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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Ace Lehner Abstract This article explores potentialities for experiencing trans joy via creative praxis, which the author coins “trans failure.” As the author defines it, trans failure builds on examples set by queer failure, such as casting off limiting cultural norms (like binary gender...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 5 Ace Lehner, Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure (2019). Mixed media installation and performance, Wassaic Project. Courtesy of the artist and the Wassaic Project.
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 6 Ace Lehner, Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure (2019). Screen print, 30 × 40 in., edition of 30. The poster is for sale. Part of the proceeds go to the Transgender Law Center, and the rest goes to helping fund the continuation of the project.
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Published: 01 November 2007
Carrie Moyer, “Gun Flag,” 2004. Screenprint. 25 × 19 inches. 250 prints inserted into the journal, “LTTR: Practice More Failure,” Issue #3, New York, NY.
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 139–161.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that were prevalent especially in the southern plantation model of incarceration. These same procedures, however, resulted in the increasing removal of prisoners from the sphere of legal, judicial, and, more broadly, public discourse and oversight. This article analyzes how the failure to prosecute crimes...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
... is progressively more universal. But technical progress is not truly systemic, passing by peoples of the underdeveloped world, and requires reflexive thought to bring out this failure, and to integrate technical progress with human progress as a whole. 2. Isocrates, Panegyricus . In George Norlin (trans...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... An ecological address to the problems of making sonic culture at a historical turning point at or beyond terminal risk prompts a politics of the commons grounded in a general imagination (modeled on Marx's general intellect). Against earlier modernist claims for both rationality and its failure, sound cultures...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the very act of writing. Metzger’s works are discussed as aesthetic responses to the “new categorical imperative” of Adorno, who addresses art’s failure in light of Auschwitz by pointing to aporias that constitute the inescapable condition of “barbarism.” This essay suggests that Metzger’s aesthetic...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... This essay considers the critical capacity of this text at the present juncture, strongly characterized by the reactionary resurgence of second-wave feminism and a trans-exclusionary brand of radical feminism. While both illuminating and symptomatizing many of the contradictions and failures of radical...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
... technology, its true failure is in sustaining the progressivist myth of technology perfectly under human control. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 prosthetic bodies robotization hominization cyborg original accident colonization When José Padilha released his reboot of the Robo-Cop...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-typical culture of honor to the ideal-typical culture of dignity, both of which are present in Russia today. The study points to the hidden reasons behind the failure of the rivals and their respective supporters to engage in a real mutual debate—each side employs moral arguments that make sense only...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
.../singapore/manpower/reflections-on-attitudes-towards-migrant-workers . Irwin Ruth . 2020 . “ Heidegger and Stiegler on Failure and Technology .” Educational Philosophy and Theory 52 , no. 4 : 361 – 75 . Leung Hillary . 2020 . “ Why Singapore, Once a Model for Coronavirus Response...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
... or perpetuate, either by their failure to demand respect for human rights in other countries or by their exploitation of immigrants, to be found in its most extreme form amongst the Swedish men who have sex with Lilya. Whilst this film may have the laudable effect of shocking Western audiences into changing...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... that suggests an older tradition of Chinese utopianism linked to wilderness poetry and natural order. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 If Chan’s dystopia is a reflection of the CCP’s psychopolitical failure to convince people about the reality of the Chinese communist utopia to come, it is also...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of primitive capital accumulation. The authors begin by arguing that both the US empire’s power and the power of resistance to it are “afflicted” in different ways. By invading and occupying Iraq, the US is on the verge of a strategic failure worse than Vietnam, while the antiwar movement in particular...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 November 2023
... attunements, their militarized contexts of practice, and the limits and affordances of sensor mediations. In the American War in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese extensively manipulated sensory inputs to control and misdirect interdiction campaigns, rendering the entire OIW a failure. In her work on drones...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., such as the tale of the Prague Golem. For Benjamin, lack of meaning, failure, and the ruination of the current social order became necessary for the possibility of redemption. Herein resides the meaning of Benjamin's theory of revolutionary nihilism. The destructive character pushes the meaninglessness...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
...), it fails, he says, dialectically. This failure is important because it is constituent of our culture—politically and economically. Thus the way to read sex is to see that the key does not lie in the real—the key argument goes through the symbolic, the fantasy, the imaginary. Sex is never perfect...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2009
... void at the center of each subject's desire. This is why fantasies are unique to each subject, but fantasy also has an intersubjective or ideological component, in that it covers over the failure of symbolization more generally, guarding against the return of the Real that always threatens to undermine...
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