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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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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
... specific features of communicative capitalism in light of the fantasies animating them. The fantasy of abundance leads to a shift in the basic unit of communication from the message to the contribution. The fantasy of activity or participation is materialized through technology fetishism. The fantasy...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Jodi Dean This article draws from Slavoj Žižek’s approach to ideology to theorize neoliberalism as an ideological formation. I focus on neoliberalism’s fantasy of free trade and on its displacement of symbolic identities by imaginary ones. The fantasy of free trade organizes enjoyment through...
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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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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Taylor Mitchell Abstract This article analyzes Tash Aw's novel We, the Survivors and Jewel Maranan's documentary film In the Claws of a Century Wanting , works that trace a poetics of survival as neoliberalism's good-life fantasies become decreasingly credible. It proposes that Aw's and Maranan's...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., Stengers, and Satsuka, this article reappropriates what should be counted as the “smart” in farming by resituating it as a world-making practice in ecological collectives rather than in an abstract ecosystem, eschewing the fantasy of a singular criterion of evaluation and control. yolanda.zhang...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... perfunctory language – whether as “information-rich data banks” or else animating the “fantasy of abundance” – and allow us to see them in a decidedly “political” way, as necessarily “incomplete” and thus eminently “rewritable” formations. This essay then concludes by examining the wider implications...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2024
... technologies since the 1970s have enabled Las Vegas casino sportsbooks to overwhelm bettors with data abundance. Television and web-based play moved poker at the turn of the millennium away from surprise, chance, and reading people toward probability, risk, and reading data. Around the same time, fantasy...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Caroline Edwards Abstract The Kenyan-born, US-based artist Wangechi Mutu is fascinated by the human body and its nonhuman possibilities. In Mutu's collaged works, human forms are repeatedly ripped apart and reassembled within fantasy landscapes that speak of decomposition and regrowth. This article...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and perseverance. At a time when the postrevolutionary public sphere is saturated with heated debates around Tunisian national identity, propelled by fantasies of purity and virile filiation, Bouzid’s bastard characters serve, the author argues, not only to warp and reclaim the political playing field...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the term “most deserving marginal” in A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason (1999) to designate how the fantasy of the West's “radical others” complies with late-capitalist forms of production. 12. Literally “we are not we.” The original slogan from subcomand-ante Marcos was “we are you,” indicating...
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Published: 01 November 2007
Dyke Action Machine!, “Gay Marriage: You Might As Well Be Straight.” 1997. Offset poster. 18 × 24 inches. 5,000 posters wheatpasted in Lower Manhattan. German-Language version of campaign installed in the Munich subway system, September 2000. In this campaign, DAM! brings a Martha Stewart fantasy
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... excited Canetti, who saw remarkable similarities between these fantasies and the way in which Aranda medicine-men of Australia are said to have their “internal organs removed and replaced with a completely new and presumably better set, either invulnerable or, at any rate, less susceptible to the assaults...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is able to go on with waking life, unaware of how the dream reality, the fantasy, structures reality itself ( Žižek 1989: 47 ). The same can be said of the spectator's cynical response to the fantasy of film: “it's only a movie!” Such a gesture has the structure of fetishism disavowal: “ je sais bien...
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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 (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the world needs is a new communist movement to take advantage of and sort out the “mess” it's in. This would be a Left that is not “afraid to take power” (2020b: 5). From the start, then, we are evidently in pure fantasy or, as Žižek has it, “Be realistic, demand the impossible!” (“Soyons réalistes...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2015
... the ideological critique of debunking the fantasy of austerity measures and the new management culture implemented by all countries in Europe are realities and not simply food for the real-time media. It is not the working class that is brainwashed by the dangerous, devilish, and cunning politicians, as the media...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., languages, knowledge, images, beliefs and fantasies than any other industry. Trading the Other deeply, intimately, defines Western thinking and identity. As a trade, it has no concern for the peoples who originally produced the ideas or images. … Trading the Other is big business. For indigenous peoples...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Chinese capitalism, which it accuses of creating a kind of fake utopia, where poverty, misery, and despair are hidden behind the fantasy life of the new Chinese consumer society. In Chan’s work, the brutal truth of neoliberal capitalism, which has overtaken Chinese communism since Deng Xiaoping’s turn...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... ). Subsequently, MUDs socially proliferated, often taking the form of “Dungeons and Dragons” fantasy worlds in which individuals could interact, and, if desired, could experiment with, or transform, their identities ( Turkle 1995 ). As Wertheim argues, MUDing would rapidly develop into an online communal activity...
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