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Tense Borders: Culture, Identity, and Anxiety in New Zealand's Interweaving Discourses of Immigration and Genetic Modification
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 359–380.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Priya Kurian; Debashish Munshi Immigration and genetic modification (GM) are two contentious sociocultural issues that have attracted considerable academic, political, and public attention in New Zealand. Although seemingly disparate, the discourses around the two issues share common anxieties...
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What New Humanism Today?
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 237–252.
Published: 01 July 2010
... conception of the relationship between human beings and technology against the conception implicit in Marx, he seeks to establish a ground for an encyclopedist humanism – a genetic encyclopedism – that lies beyond both the humanism combated by Heidegger and that philosopher's own anti-anthropological...
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Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s Jovial Modernity
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... This is followed by the unraveling of three layers that have constituted the 1999 scandal following Sloterdijk’s reply to Heidegger’s letter On Humanism : Sloterdijk’s actual text on humanism and Bildung in the age of genetic engineering; the scandal and the mass-medialization of philosophical critique...
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Just Targets
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., Jean Genet, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. The aim of the action was to focus attention on the dismal conditions for immigrant workers in France recently made public by the death through asphyxiation of five immigrant workers of African descent in a small room in Aubervilliers. For 70 francs per person...
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From India with Love: Troublesome Citizens of Fertility Travel
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 307–325.
Published: 01 July 2012
... or a Norwegian man genetically proved to be the father. Thus they consider the twin babies Indian rather than Norwegian. The Indian authorities prioritize the intended parent, however, and consider the babies Norwegian. Consequently, during their first fifteen months of life, the children were stateless—unable...
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The Queer Erotics of Visceral Prosthetic Connections
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 509–511.
Published: 01 November 2024
... phenomenon that characterizes embodiment per se rather than being related to specific conditions such as, for example, pregnancy. But, Shildrick asks, what does it do to the temporalities of life and death, and to the idea of individual death, if cells, characterized by the genetic makeup of another embodied...
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Running to Stand Still: Late Modernity's Acceleration Fixation
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... computer (1976) cellular phones (1979) spreadsheet software (1979) first ‘test-tube’ baby (1979) first genetically modified mouse (1980) ‘hard-disk’ drive (1980) IBM-PC (1981) MS-DOS (1981) space shuttle (1981) genetic fingerprinting (1984) first sheep-goat chimera created (1984) Human Genome...
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HOT ROCKS AND THE URANIUM Girl: Nabokov’s LOLITA
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and cancer in children was a highly emotive and “hush-hush” issue in the years of the main composition of Lolita up to December 1953. Scientific studies of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki between 1947 and 1952 looked at genetic damage, incidence of leukaemia, and stillbirth rates. 10 A great...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of cultural institutions.” Hoping to preempt accusations of resurrected social Darwinism, he insisted that he was describing “not genetic evolution of innate qualities, but cultural evolution through learning—which indeed leads sometimes to conflicts with near-animal natural instincts” ( Hayek 1978a : 67–68...
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Care and Carelessness in the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler's Three Conversions and Their Accompanying Heideggers
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., the billions-year-old unfolding of the conservation and transformation of the genetic molecule is already a question of a lasting inscription in matter, deferring entropy by differentiating organs and organizing species—where this is, precisely, a matter of différance. Yet if that was in 1967, in 1968 Derrida...
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Next Exit: Drift Culture
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 134–138.
Published: 01 March 2015
... technologies, cloud computing, and recombinant genetic technologies. Indeed if, of late, a global fascination with the trope of the “posthuman” has emerged, it is because under the present conditions the human itself is about to become an outdated, obsolete, or—in Günther Anders’s words—“antiquated being...
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Fertility Travel: The Commodification of Human Reproduction: Charlotte Kroløkke, Karen A. Foss, and Saumya Pant, Guest Editors
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 273–282.
Published: 01 July 2012
... section. References Appadurai Arjun . 1996 . Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Bestard Joan . 2004 “ Kinship and the New Genetics: The Changing Meaning of Biogenetic Substance .” Social Anthropology 12...
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Bernard Stiegler and the Time of Technics
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 207–228.
Published: 01 July 2010
... a nce,” a rupture whereby the supplement, the differing and deferring, the spatializing and temporalizing inscription of the trace, is exteriorized into technical objects thus constituting a doubling of “differ a nce.” This is a passage from: “a genetic differance to a nongenetic differance...
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Virus Is a Language: COVID-19 and the New Abnormal
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... by a rapacious quest for wealth, creating an interchange between wild animals, domesticated animals, and humans that inevitably generates new pathogens. Thus the most likely vector for COVID-19 is the wet market in Wuhan, a product of this dynamic. It is clear from the genetics of SARS-CoV-2...
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No More Models: Baudrillard's Critique of Communication
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 409–430.
Published: 01 November 2011
... (finality is there at the beginning). Baudrillard found examples of this in the pairing of semiotics (code from which value emanates and by means of which competence is defined) and genetics (DNA as prototype of every code), under the rubric that genetics provides a strategic command-code...
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On the World of the Virus: Remaking Image Theory Anew
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with taking a specific cultural position on this world or with setting up a view or a stance that must be adopted as a political posture in relation to complex viruses and their human environs. Instead, I am concerned with what our attitude should be toward the world of genetic recombination and the question...
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AN Analyst’s COUCH FOR ARCHITECTS
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 July 2008
... which is often lacking in many aesthetic theories in architecture. The key to Leach’s enterprise is not to recreate an architectural ontology; instead, he travels in the realms of psychic life, taking on the idea of mimesis – as old as its Greek etymological form and as new as the latest genetic...
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Dark Pageantries
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 139–143.
Published: 01 March 2015
...,” by Jennifer Doyle, and “The Man and His Tattoos (By the Man Who Did Them),” by Alex Binne, examine. In tandem with the queer writings of André Gide, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs, as well as eastern mystics like Fakir Musafar, significant influences on the artist the book also...
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Žižek's Pandemic: On Utopian Realism and the Spirit of Communism
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... While Freud considered the protozoa, the single-celled organism, representative of the immortality of life before sexual reproduction, which introduces death into nature, Žižek's philosophy of the virus, which exists somewhere on the borderline between life and nonlife (the virus is a bundle of genetic...
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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
... is taken to be naturally good and happy (Baudrillard 2004a: 117; 2005: 139). Evil is objectified as some clearly circumscribed foreign element – whether it takes the form of history, of society, of perversion, genetics, or some geopolitical “Axis of Evil” – and is thus denied existence as a principle...
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