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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell , Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann , and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow . Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 passion for the real extremism excess gravity anthropology Human civilizations have at times been described as the outcomes of a permanent struggle between memory and forgetting. If we take an image of this kind as our base, we might see the positive contents...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... der Luftbrücke: A Conversation) . Berlin : Oktagon . Pinchevski Amit . 2012 . “ The Audiovisual Unconscious: Media and Trauma in the Archive for Holocaust Testimonies .” Critical Inquiry 39 ( 1 ): 142 – 66 . Pynchon Thomas . 1987 . Gravity’s Rainbow . New York : Viking...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on this scorched earth.” 1 At the end of Gravity’s Rainbow , a final news flash from PNS Los Angeles reaches you, the reader of the novel. Seconds before the first or last V2 explodes over LA, a “Managerial Volkswagen” takes you on a trip along the Santa Monica Freeway, “the freeway of freaks...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... the planetary surface to some extra-atmospheric or subcutaneous redoubt has been periodically revisited as among the most likely long-term solutions to the question of how to preserve life in the face of disaster. While the emancipatory implications of release from gravity have lent spaceflight something...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., if indeed he drew any. He liked to compare our meetings to the question and answer sessions in Gravity ' s Rainbow when German doper Säure Bummer quizzes Seaman Bodine on esoteric American phrases like ass backwards and shit ‘ n ’ Shinola . But the truth is that Kittler—one of the most tenacious...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., Virilio muses, string theory in physics, which denies the very concept of the infinite, is so popular. Cybernetic space is but an ersatz , a substitution of reality for a reality without gravity. Virilio leaves his readers with the hardly reassuring conclusion that planetary humans are adrift...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 118–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... On the border between these two worlds, Spero’s and Golub’s, a makeshift pole had been newly erected reaching to the ceiling. From the top of the pole hung red and black ribbons looping down to form a scallop of gravity before ascending upward to be caught by monofilament attached to the ceiling...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2009
... by trucks and buses as they drove back and forth between bunkers might be read aesthetically, like a drawing, while at the same time they seemed to provide a diagnostic tool for interpreting the gravity of the world's political situations. Such marks or drawings recall bodily and psychic functions: bomb...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
... vapors of the oracle in Delphi, but he could just as well have pointed to the future—that is, to the trenches of the First World War. And what starts now is the history or posthistory of our media wars. Gravity's Rainbow , the quintessential novel of World War II, begins with a noise...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that this drive to reach escape velocity—and break free of the gravity of the human—has been played out across modern history. We might risk reading this need for speed back even further. Consider Plato’s (2002) Apology , where the founder of European philosophy, Socrates, embraces death to escape from his body...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and reception of texts is now, in the realm of war and politics, the unflinching acceptance of dynamics and exigencies related to resources and technologies. The way in which Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow describes the Second World War applies to all wars: This War was never political at all...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of Alberta , petrocultures.com . Accessed July 11 . Pynchon Thomas . 1973 . Gravity’s Rainbow . New York : Viking . Salminen Antti Vadén Tere . 2015 . Energy and Experience: An Essay in Nafthology . Chicago : MCM Publishing . Samman Nadim Ondreička Boris , eds...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” The title of the article alone should have alerted the editors of Social Text to the possibility that they were the intended victims of a hoax, quite apart from the ludicrous argument developed in the article itself. Sokal declared the nonexistence...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... impulsion of vortextuality is driven by news stories of such gravity (or apparent gravity) that they pull space towards themselves. In extreme instances one might expect a black hole phenomenon, in which the original story disappears entirely leaving only a set of frozen spectral traces of itself...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
... is finally being filmed and Welles screams “Action!” Stracci does not respond. Defying the director's command to labor, he sprawls immobile on the cross, with his relaxed neck giving way to the weight of his head and his stretched-out arms falling by the force of gravity. After the assistant director checks...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to this era of suspicion and his attention to the radicalism of spatiodynamics as an early template for the dromospheric condition, including the theory of the function of the oblique, particularly in the way it redirected architectural focus to the body and to “the awareness of gravity” as a constant...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 359–370.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that it did not relate to the law or its transgression, since, against the seriousness of the order and the law, it pitted the gravity of the game and the rule. Seduction haunted the old order as its absolute, irremediable antithesis, irresolvable into any ultimate synthesis. Seduction was femininity, every...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of extremes” has come to an end, the reality of the posthistorical political stage seems to be that of an omnipresent “normalization” and “drive into the mainstream ( die Mitte ),” a totalitarian and depressing center of gravity (2001a: 150ff.). A contemporary critique that starts from its immersion...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is not just a matter of physiology, gravity, and kinetics; it involves chains of operations that link ambulatory abilities to cultural protocols. It is not just a species marker or biological given; it is always already the interaction between the fact that you can walk and the expectation that you could...
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