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Governing Through Freedom
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of economic theory led by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman and others to forge a mode of intervention that sees big state planning as a harbinger of new threats to individual independence and freedom—the road to a new serfdom. What should not be underestimated is the vast intellectual labor...
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How Freedom Separates
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Sarah-Nicole Aghassi-Isfahani Anker explains that the subjugating ugly freedoms she explores have manifested “consumptive sovereignty,” whereby individuals believe they “owe nature nothing, but it owes them everything, and exists to endlessly satisfy their wants” (157). She argues that those who...
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On the Freedom to Be Opaque Monsters: Communist Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and the Sublime
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to voice your participation? There is an app for that! Jodi Dean, who first theorized communicative capitalism, notes that rather than “leading to more equitable distributions of wealth and influence, instead of enabling the emergence of a richer variety in modes of living and practices of freedom...
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Mineral Freedom: Jean-Luc Nancy's Ontology of Matter
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2025
... becomes imperative in the face of the ecological predicament of the Anthropocene. The essay traces the ways in which Nancy takes on this task across his corpus, recasting the concept of freedom and the figure of the stone—both integral to the history of occidental philosophy. Minerality emerges...
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The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Ashjan Ajour Abstract This article explores the body as a site of subjectivity production during a hunger strike in Occupied Palestine. It further explores the former political prisoners’ theory of subjectivity as it emerges through their praxis and philosophy of freedom. Although the body...
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The Negative Abyss: Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of infinite depth and a sense of absolute freedom obscures the truth of solipsistic self-reflection and enclosure. It explores this idea through reference to Virilio’s concept of the “squared horizon” and a short history of screen culture that commences with Plato’s myth of the cave, where perceptions...
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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
...Malcolm Miles In an essay on French literature in the period of Nazi occupation, Herbert Marcuse argues that a literature of intimacy—love poems and romantic novels—is the last resort of freedom in totalitarian conditions. Written in 1945 and revised in the 1970s, Marcuse’s essay argues...
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Living with the Virtual: Baudrillard, Integral Reality, and Second Life
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., ethnic and gender exclusion, and the high “churn” rate of users), and points to the complexities and problems of uncritically accepting the apparent freedoms immersive virtual spaces ostensibly offer, factors which also raise critical issues for Baudrillard's notion of integral reality. © BERG 2011...
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Perfect Crime, Absolute Evil: In the Vortex with Baudrillard and Dantec
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... reality and that of personal freedom. Baudrillard's perfect crime becomes, for Dantec, the alibi for an absolute crime: the invisible and perfectly integrated acts of numerous serial killers operating with impunity. However, it is not so much individual acts such as murder that constitute evil...
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Chinese Bulimia: Utopia, Dystopia, and The Fat Years
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We , George Orwell’s 1984 , and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World . Here, I compare and contrast notions of narcotization, state control, and freedom across Chan’s work and the Western dystopias, noting key cultural differences in the process. Beyond this work, I move on to place Chan’s...
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Prolegomenon to a Right to Disappear
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... regulated. We are made as if citizens of it. The figure of the citizen today, less than being a figure of the future of the human or of future freedom of the human, is more a figure of citizen-as-target. How does one begin to assert “a right to disappear” against this subjectivity then? This article argues...
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The New Militancy: Memory Culture and the Politics of Implication from Ukraine, through Kassel, to Gaza
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 432–441.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of liberal freedoms of speech and artistic expression before and after October 7 (ruangrupa in conversation with Sophie Goltz), to the crisis of Israel-Palestine now (Ayelet Ben-Yishai). [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Ukraine NATO Gaza and plausible genocide...
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Sons of a Beach: The Politics of Bastardy in the Cinema of Nouri Bouzid
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Nouri Gana This article examines the cultural politics of bastardy in the films of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid at a time when questions of national and cultural identity have come to the fore in Tunisia in the wake of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity. Nouri Bouzid is the doyen of Tunisian...
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The check-in and baggage-drop area at Stansted Airport, before refurbishmen...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 November 2014
Figure 4 The check-in and baggage-drop area at Stansted Airport, before refurbishment in 2006, showing glass, as a symbol of the idea of transparency, imagined as lending the image of openness, democracy, and freedom. Courtesy Adam Sharr
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The Despotic Imperative: From Hiero to The Circle
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... economy voluntary servitude freedom Despite its past centrality as a significant concept of political thought, today “despotism” seems to have become a redundant concept that designates an exceptional, archaic form of government. Paradoxically, however, nothing is easier today, in an increasingly...
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“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...
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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
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Published: 01 November 2022
) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang
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“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...
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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
> Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang
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“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...
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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
> Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang
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The Redemption of the Real
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., 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 of life to its conclusion in order to provoke the appearance of messianic freedom...
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Hegel on History, 9/11, and the War on Terror, or Reason in History
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and at greater length in his theory of the modern state. Aristotle, who is an early action theorist, treats human action as tending toward happiness, hence as goal-directed, in his theory of ethics. In updating Aristotle’s early approach to a theory of human action, Hegel argues that individuals seek freedom...
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