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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... defense of philosophy. To discuss this, the article reads the Clouds in the perspective of free use. This reading makes it possible to articulate two distinct but related senses of perverting philosophy, which are evidenced with material from within the play: the reduction of reason to instrumental reason...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the promise that everyone will win, uses losses to reconfirm the necessity of strengthening the system so that everyone will win, and perpetually displaces the thieves of enjoyment throughout the system as warnings, exceptions, and contingencies. In addition to relying on the fantasy of free trade, neoliberal...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... emancipation of Western civilization from “the dogmatic opportunism of the real as power-of-the-base-from-below” toward “a free-moving position intermediate between the heavy and antigravitational tendencies.” Economically, the ending of scarcity ( Entknappung ) and, technologically, the exoneration...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 92–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of Profanation,” Agamben offers a definition of this notion of purposiveness: to profane has only the practical meaning of returning things to our free use (2007 [2005]: 73–92). From this we can infer that, first, there are present uses of things that are available to us and, second, that if something may...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... They can then become a plentiful good which, by its unlimited availability, loses all exchange-value and falls into the public domain as free common property , unless it is successfully prevented from doing so by forbidding access to it and to the unlimited use to which it lends itself. The problem...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2024
... what he sees as an unwarranted assumption of material vitality in many new materialist strains of theory. Trading it in for a historically situated account of matter in motion, Nail argues that this frees us from unnecessary metaphysical baggage and suspect ethico-political stakes. In a theoretically...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... appeals of The Differend , seem here somewhat deflated. “Anthropologically,” as Lyotard says in his final sentences, this can seem to be a liberation (virtualization can free us from our lowly terrestrial condition, the singularity is nigh), but, transcendentally speaking, “the disruption within...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as an apparatus of abuse. Just as the ancient slave-instrument incarnated the abuse of use, the manufacturing of free will, the mechanism of voluntary servitude, is animated here by technology. Automation, after all, is what happens when you achieve voluntary servitude. Voluntary servitude, in this sense...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 237–252.
Published: 01 July 2010
... shall see that Simondon, by magisterially explaining what technology is in its technicity and hence in its functioning, not its mere use, will reveal the following fact: the new form of alienation from which humanism (itself also new) must free us is precisely an alienation whose deep cause lies...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and reification as external forces impinging on individuals. However historically modifiable these forces might be, they block or subvert some fundamental human drive or propensity favorable to free, creative expression and self-realization, of which boredom is symptomatic. On this point, a useful contrast can...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., or at least parrot. Kittler was freeing us from the obligation to ponder Man and Meaning (especially the improvement of the former and the subtleties of the latter), and this was as liberating to some as it was cynical to others. Indeed, for a first-year student wandering the corridors of Freiburg's fractured...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the book’s overall project; what Ross gives us is more than enough to think about. Extending her approach to the Commune as a moment of revolutionary rupture, free from the restrictions of historical narrative, Ross opens a space for a discussion of the concept that names the book itself: “communal...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... . “ The Changing Online Landscape: From Free-For-All to Commercial Gatekeeping .” In Day P. and Schuler D. (eds), Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Actions/Global Interaction . New York : Routledge . Hartley J. 1999 . Uses of Television . London : Routledge...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
... aesthetic not simply as artistic uses of technology, but in terms of devices and techniques like the clockwork radio and computer, open source and free software. Such technologies are aesthetic in the sense of the “truth-and-rightness meter” proposed by David Gelernter (1998: 1) , but they are also...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... , published in English as The Intelligence of Evil . For Baudrillard, we (that is to say those of us in the developed world) are now living in integral reality : everything, all the time, is real, is visible, is transparent, is meaningful, is free. This reality is absolutely intelligible and subject...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... 2013 . “ Butler Goes to Work: A Political Economy of the Subject .” borderlands 12 ( 1 ), http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol12no1_2013/ford_butler.htm Ford Derek R. 2017 . “ Making Marxist Pedagogy Magical: From Critique to Imagination; or, How Bookkeepers Set Us Free .” Critical...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 192–213.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., it explores how New Eelam conscripts its public into imagining itself as the morally and aesthetically superior advance-guard of a new world order. Then, it uses Kulendran Thomas’s submerged invocation of the 1969 exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form to analyze how this experiment...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and technological acceleration is then logically marked by an increasing despair around how to bring about global justice, and speed-elitist underpinnings require that Indymedia be seen as left-wing promise. 10. See Spivak in an interview with David Plotke ( Spivak and Plotke 1996 ). 11. Spivak uses...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., community, the nation, etc. rather than as a free encyclopedia.) It is important that we should use digital media in our efforts to think the political otherwise, I think. In his book Imagined Communities (1983), Benedict Anderson showed how modes of communication are central to ideas of the nation...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2013
... [1967] : 110). Solzhenitsyn typed 250 copies of the letter and, to avoid spreading the risk of being associated with its contents, addressed the envelopes in his own hand ( Burg and Feifer 1973 ). In the letter, Solzhenitsyn challenged the union's use of “censorious labels” such as “ideologically...