Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 272 Search Results for
freedom
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... 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,” networked communication “coincides with extreme...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
Image
Published: 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
More
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... or a technical system of automated counting. In Hiero and The Circle , people are willing to submit to the will of the despot, accepting both despotic maxims, while freedom turns into a burden. In this sense, there is a contradiction between freedom, which is tied to use, and voluntary servitude, which...
Image
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
More
Image
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
More
Image
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
More
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... character follows the field of objects through to its conclusion, the final point where ruination becomes complete and cancels itself. It is this moment, when the appearance of freedom cancels through the process of ruination, that represents the event in Benjamin's philosophy of destruction (1931/1999...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
... is an object, a commodity. In this respect, the luxurious enables us to experience our humanity and represents our existential freedom from the nightmare of necessity, through the extreme, excessive, and transgressive commodity form. There is no doubt that the first part of Wiesing’s book develops...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Carta for the Knowledge Age .” The Progress and Freedom Foundation. Available at http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/f1.2magnacarta.html (accessed April 20, 2009). Fiorina C.S. 2001 . “ The Digital Renaissance .” Future Insight 8 (1) : 2 – 5 . Progress and Freedom Foundation...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... points in Singapore's social and physical infrastructures. The BlueTrace protocol, notwithstanding its technological prescience of the future of epidemiological contact tracing, runs up against its limits in areas and communities that have been left out of the narrative on freedom and mobility. Setting...
FIGURES
1
