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Brainstorming Revisited: On Instrumental Creativity and Human Productivity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 March 2020
... influenced by concepts of human productivity developed and applied during World War II and prior to it. Using the brainstorming method as a case in point, this article aims not only to shed light on the quite uncharted history of creativity in the mid-twentieth century, but also to stress the conducive role...
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Political Plants: Art, Design, and Plant Sentience
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 March 2023
... studies that destabilizing human-nonhuman binaries intrinsically lends itself to projects of environmental justice by encouraging humans to coexist more equitably with other species. In other words, we should not assume that artistic production is spontaneously aligned to ethics of multispecies justice...
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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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Decolonizing Ecomedia
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sean Cubitt Ecocritical work on media has developed from a genre criticism of nature-themed films to address cinema, TV, and media arts more broadly as articulations of the human-natural relation and its mediation through technologies. Embracing the environmental impacts of product life cycles...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2023
... multispecies justice draws attention to the broader power relations that shape particular processes of knowledge and value production and their more-than-human consequences (Haraway 1988 ). Situated knowledges and knowledge production thus constitutes a second recurring motif in the contributions...
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The Decline of Innovation and the Rise of Contribution
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 413–431.
Published: 01 November 2024
... it. Technics is the very condition needed for novelty to arise, not just as an industrial product destined to revive the economy but also as a space for individuation and cultural meaning. The biological and historical evolution of the human is possible because of their active engagement with the exterior...
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The Extinction Image
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of automated modes of visual production enabled by state-of-the-art tools such as neural nets and the DALL-E 2 artificial intelligence (AI) system ( fig. 1 ). Bypassing the human as the privileged site of artistic production, the extinction image appears at first glance to be nearly identical...
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Profanating Gastro-Normativity: Exploring the Nonhuman Materiality of Making and Tasting Wine in the Natural Wine Movement
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Andrea Pavoni This article explores the making and tasting of wine through the anonymous processes of nonhuman consumption that participate in the production of its relational ontology (the terroir) and shape its visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste). First, the author defines a notion...
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The Cultural Politics of Fish and Humans: A More-Than-Human Habitus of Consumption
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Elspeth Probyn This article reframes fisheries sustainability as a matter of production and consumption. It argues that only a more-than-human approach that takes seriously the entanglement of all oceanic entities—fish, fishers, water—can tackle the sustainability of fish. In order to bring...
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The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Gilbert Simondon Human progress cannot be measured by what people produce but by the stages of production. The shift from the development of language in the classical period to religion in the medieval and technical progress after the Renaissance does not tell the whole story. Each of these domains...
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England, That Desert Island: Patrick Keiller’s Spatial Fictions
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Daniele Rugo A recurring feature of Patrick Keiller’s work is the lack of human presence and activity. Throughout his films, Keiller delivers a vision of England as a desert island, depopulated and unoccupied. Scrutinizing Keiller’s early shorts and feature-length films, this article argues...
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Herculean Unproductivity in Pasolini's La ricotta and Teorema
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to rest. This figure embodies a transhistorical and entirely human desire to explore the libidinal and sensorial possibilities of the body outside of productive activities. The Belvedere Torso reminds the overworked twenty-first-century workers that it is possible to be unproductive, even when it seems...
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A Forest, a Maze, a Garden, a City: Psychiatry's Architectural Turn
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Des Fitzgerald Abstract This article argues for a mutation in how mental health is conceived in the early twenty-first century. In this mutation, physical environments, in the form of homes, workplaces, and streetscapes, are understood as central to the production and maintenance of good mental...
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Thinking Inside the Box: On Container Aquaculture and the Datafication of Life
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
... involved feel or are recognized as political subjects as such (Otsuki et al. 2018 : 7–8). The quotidian politics of multiplicity in ecology formation is prior to representational/structuralist politics, which is a product of Enlightenment and modern liberalism, assuming that “humans are rational...
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Activism, Acceleration, and the Humanist Aporia: Indymedia Intensified in the Age of Neoliberalism
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and its academic proponents, remains. The humanist aporia – humanism's self-undermining character that can incessantly give rise to a remobilization of its grounds – is thus indeed already productively at work in (my) academic work on Indymedia, as much as it operates in Indymedia itself, accelerating...
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IS CONTEMPORARY LUXURY MORALLY ACCEPTABLE?: A Question for the Super-Rich
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of human creativity and culture. Moreover, as H. Sidgwick (1894) argued, the production and circulation of superfluous commodities promotes the appreciation and production of beauty and thereby serves the important social function of advancing culture. Many of the very best cultural and aesthetic...
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A Tale of Two ’68s: The “Politics of Boredom” in France and Italy
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of collective intelligence itself, something that becomes richer only through constant usage. This opens up a bidirectionality in the here and now, highlighting the route to an “alter-modernity” much more conducive to human flourishing, one that could augment the poetic, intellectual, and productive richness...
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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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The Critical Posthumanities; Or, Is Medianatures to Naturecultures as Zoe Is to Bios ?
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
... studies—that have transformed the modes of knowledge production within the academic humanities and beyond. They are framed qualitatively by the neomaterialist, vital philosophy proposed by Gilles Deleuze’s Spinozism, based on the concepts of monism, radical immanence, and relational ontology...
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Deep Times of Planetary Trouble
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . “ Hunting a Whale of a State: Kittler and His Terrorists .” Cultural Politics 8 ( 3 ): 399 – 412 . Young Liam . 2015 . “ New City: Machines of Post Human Production .” CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) , December 16 , www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/liam-young-talks...
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