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The Intellectual Genealogies and Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony Bennett
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 161–182.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Huimin Jin Being deeply engaged with and therefore a leading figure of cultural studies, British and Australian, Tony Bennett, by focusing upon its key concepts – (culture as) a whole way of life, hegemony, cultural capital, and governmentality , etc. – shows how cultural studies was shaped...
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The New Foucault Effect
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and disciplinary power; the second on biopower, security, and liberalism; and the third on the government of the self and others. Foucault in 1976–79 altered his earlier frame by introducing the concept of governmentality and security dispositif and identified a missing, fourth type of power-governmentality called...
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Political Spirituality: The Devils , Possession, and Truth-Telling
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...
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The Neoliberal Subject of Value: Measuring Human Capital in Information Economies
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
... transformed how work is understood and valued. Second, I discuss the central role of commensuration within capitalist value production, arguing that human capital functions as a “commensurating machine” that allows neoliberal governmentality to permeate areas of life previously impervious to market...
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Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Kwai-Cheung Lo Abstract This essay examines how crowd empowerment and its control inscribe the agency of nonhuman nature in the social movement and the governmental strategy within the context of China–Hong Kong connections. Concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement, it examines how the agency...
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The Competition of Two Discourses: The Making of a New Ideology in China
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2012
... classifications, as there are always fissures and tensions. Generally speaking, the concept of ideology is useful, otherwise we cannot narrate the national ethos, governmental principle, or other totality of operating ideas in general; moreover, it is a concept we are familiar with—no doubt, this is a perspective...
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Cultural Infrastructure
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (as per its etymology), based on inclusion and exclusion, and according to certain criteria. This is a power that can be “harnessed by forces of rationality and governmentality that categorize and administer people, words, and things” (18). Yet on the other hand, the list has the power to destabilize...
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Immateriality and Absence in the Search for Self
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 397–399.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of care, only ever allows hints of the more disturbing subtexts of the misuse of these systems, such as the broader use of ambience in political or religious propaganda. “As with neoliberal forms of governmentality more generally,” Roquet writes, “reliance on atmosphere as a mechanism of indirect social...
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On a Critique of Actually Existing Neoliberal Media
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 430–433.
Published: 01 November 2015
... overview of the literature on neoliberalism within “critical media studies,” distinguishing between critical political economy, cultural studies, and Foucauldian governmental approaches, Phelan sets out his own theoretical and methodological approach to studying something called neoliberalism. Following...
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Enjoying Neoliberalism
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... for the restoration of class power” ( Duménil and Lévy 2004 ; Harvey 2005: 16 ), as a specific form of governmentality ( Lemke 2001 ; Brown 2003 ), and as a new form of the state (Passavant 2005) . My wager here is that the Lacanian-inspired version of ideology critique offered by Slavoj Žižek provides...
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The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)-Projektnummer 258454408. 1 Where the term Environmentality written with a capital E appears in this essay, it refers to the contemporary mode of governmentality, as used by Foucault (and, today, Brian Massumi...
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A Risk Society of Moral Panic: The US in the Twenty-First Century
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
...” ( Kitzinger and Reilly 1997 : 320). These can lead to a raft of governmental responses. In Western Europe, the last twenty years have seen new consumer-protection legislation to increase safety. In the US, the response has been more a matter of litigation ( Economist 2004 ). There is a venerable...
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Childhood’s End (or, We Have Never Been Modern, Except in Minecraft)
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 289–303.
Published: 01 November 2018
... is very powerful: it is the condition of possibility for the integration of aesthetics, governmentality, and computational logic. Minecraft embodies that integration and presents us with a powerful allegory for how it functions in twenty-first-century culture. If classical allegory uses content...
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Cloud Control, or the Network as Medium
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... The notion of a total environment composed of distinct registers of objects such as computers, the built environment, and biological life on an equal footing is central to the trenchant political critique leveled at neoliberal governmentality in the Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection (2009: 50...
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The Limits of Control
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 311–320.
Published: 01 July 2011
...-in” modes of control and neoliberal governmentality that form the core of the book are foregrounded by Guins when he states that: The designed-in premise of control technology is a stalwart element in today's emergent media. In being designed-in, control redesigns media technologies to go beyond...
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Jazz in Britain: Export Culture, Import Society
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2007
... governmental intervention. Awareness of this would have opened up a different line of enquiry surrounding jazz and cultural policies of the British government. McKay has necessarily, and wisely, avoided an attempt to write a history of jazz in Britain. He begins his Preface: “This is not really (only...
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Power, Secrecy, Paranoia: Technologies of Governance and the Structure of Rule
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... so constitutes its subjects. Christoph Engemann (2009) has coined the term “governmediality” to give expression to how technologies mediate between governmentality (the production of governed subjects) and what Friedrich Kittler (1990) , adapting a term from Freud, called “systems of inscription...
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Toward a State of Burnout?: Cyberpunk, Neoliberal Politics, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 271–273.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of neoliberalism” but also act as a “productive force behind the perpetuation of neoliberal governmentalities” (2). As she notes, “thinking about neoliberalism through cyberpunk can offer a “refashioning of force relations” that, she argues, better exposes the “economization of everyday life” (2, 3). While...
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Smashing Statues; or, Reasons for Removing Monuments
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2023
... their disposal, some statues can be difficult to get rid of, often because of legislative obstacles and judicial challenges. As Thompson explores, state laws and governmental policies are often created and applied to prevent altering monuments. For instance, despite Birmingham's residents wanting the removal...
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The Allures and Deceptions of Democracy
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 July 2005
... a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, promises a dramatis personae approach to the early days of the executive branch of the US governmental experiment. And Vidal delivers on this promise, providing fully blooded portraits of the first three presidents, including their financial straits, physical traits...
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