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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 275–280.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ned Rossiter Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies , by Cubitt Sean , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 , 256 pages, $84.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8223-6281-4 , $23.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6292-0 © 2018 Duke University Press 2018...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to something beyond itself (more precisely, beyond the finite set a given symbol is part of). Rather, the determining feature is substitutability within the set. It is internal switchability enabled by empty spaces. Yes, this is an essay about time, but one must never forget that it is spatialization...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of friction is the foundational event of earthly, finite, life. As Žižek explains, the Fall was already written into God's divine plan. Due to this situation it then follows that humans can only become free when they realize their own unfreedom, when they realize their own finitude and thus assume...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... construct what we claim to know. Since he thinks that, for purposes of knowledge, the construction must be a priori, he has no way to account for how finite human beings in fact know the world they experience and themselves. An important partial solution is provided by the idea of objectification...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 351–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of investment, of exploitation and reinvestment . . . , on the other hand the actual infinite, the one by which a finite existence accedes, as finite, to the infinite of a sense or of a value that is its most proper sense and value. Infinity, in other words, is to be found not only on the side...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is in relation to environmentalism. That is, consumerism spawns false needs and false consciousness, disregards the reality of a finite material world in pursuit of ever-expanding markets and profits, and compensates for exploitation and alienation by offering seemingly limitless (but unsatisfying) consumption...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 459–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... recovered, the total percentage of material recycled was only 28 percent. The circular economy is currently proffered across industry and public policy as a silver bullet to the problems of finite resource and exponential waste, but when at looked at from the perspective of holistic commodities...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... In a finite world, after all, almost everything can be said to circulate, from the blood in our bodies, to the earth around the sun, to nutrients in a rain forest, to precapitalist peasants going back and forth from home to field. Hence the match between film and money is just a random association, from which...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 404–414.
Published: 01 November 2014
... because Blanqui’s theory of eternal return in L’eternité par les astres ( Eternity according to the Stars ; [1872] 2009), written during one of his many periods of imprisonment, speculates on the relation between the finite and the infinite and on the repetition of the same across time and space...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
... illuminated, as can be seen in Christ as “light of the world”—“the true human condition,” the human as both God and human, the God-human that has been corrupted by voluntarism. God here is the absolute maximum, the universe the contracted maximum, the divine in finite form where the human is the highest...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
...). While the drives always end in the satisfaction of finite aims, through this detachability it becomes possible to bind them to other aims, and especially to those that do not exist but consist, as the infinite objects of desire (such as the objects of taste and love, and including the ideas)—essentially...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2014
... takes than that we all exist in time: birth and death are markers of our temporality, reminders of the finite nature of our existence. On a most fundamental level, Life in a Day defines the community of humankind in terms of this universally shared temporal condition. Yet organizers of Life...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... innate logic of competition and accumulation whereby new markets (in space) constantly needed to be found, and the development of increasingly efficient technologies (in time) had to be developed ( Hassan 2008 ). A profound contradiction for capitalism, however, is that physical space is finite...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 July 2006
... their abilities within finite scenarios. The situations may be artificial, the dialogue less than spontaneous, and the gamers may merely be doing what the producers tell them. All this is perfectly of a piece with a reality which is itself an artificial arena, where everyone is already a gamer, waiting...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is to externalize the costs of production, so that the market need only account for the costs of distribution and consumption. A large part of those costs are to be borne by the free labor of creation ( Fuchs 2009 )—quite possibly a finite resource—employed by the major online enterprises and increasingly in other...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 385–397.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to attract so much foreign capital. According to prognoses made by DASA [the Defense Atomic Support Agency] (which, as the successor to the Peenemünde Army Research Center, should know what it's talking about), the world's oil wells are as calculable as they are finite. Despite all drilling ventures...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... meaningless and empty.” In both cases, there is a sense of pain attached to the sublime. We are finite, and there are forms and forces out there that we cannot hope to represent through our fallible, precarious senses. Yet this is not the end of the story for Kant. While the sublime first gives...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
....” The finiteness of this world is played out multiple times in films of apocalypse, in video games, and in other screen-based media, where one of the most popular genres is horror, a horror of the world. Play directs the digi-child away from presence at hand and Dasein ( Martin Heidegger’s [(1927) 1962] Being...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
... matter to light and image, new forms of pollution are also created: that of space-time, as past, present, and future are conflated ( Virilio 1997 : 22). Thus, in addition to ecological concerns about the depletion of biodiversity and the plundering of finite planetary resources, we must also contend...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the infinitesimal. In this way the relation is not defined by finite points of determination or integration but is determined elsewhere, where these points are part of a field of changes, tendencies, and vectors ( de Landa 1991 ). Penelope Harvey (2012) and Scott Lash (2012) have expanded the use of topology...
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