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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 July 2007
... and attachment, as the place where they were born and brought up. Joseph Rykwert once wrote an illuminating book, The Idea of a Town , where he recounted the various rituals used in Roman times for the foundation of a town ( Rykwert 1988 ). The very choice of location was governed by certain procedures...
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in Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
> Cultural Politics
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 3 Flying blankets, ideas flying over them, architecture students’ projects coming toward the visitor, Top Manta T-shirts, big screen with the film telling the story of the encounter between Top Manta and the students. Courtesy of Flavio Coddou / IRL.
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in Brainstorming Revisited: On Instrumental Creativity and Human Productivity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
> Cultural Politics
Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 4 “Uncle Sam Wants Your Ideas! Keep ’Em Firing.” Poster of the War Production Board, 1942–43. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.
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in Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
> Cultural Politics
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 14 Fragment of blanket 9, “Africa in the European Diaspora,” can provide a different perspective on social life, conceived from an idea of community and a sense of balance. Courtesy of Flavio Coddou / IRL.
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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
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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...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Stanley Raffel This article seeks to develop the significance of the 1960s as a period of cultural revolution. Early Baudrillard is treated as the cultural revolution's equivalent to Marx. The idea of unproductive expenditure is seen as the era's central idea. having discussed, as does Baudrillard...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Andrew Ross In China, the legacy of Mao Zedong is selectively remembered; the “late Mao,” in particular is officially considered to have made a “mistake” in launching the Cultural Revolution. In the West, we remember the romantic impact of Mao’s ideas on the Cold War left and on the generation...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and object-fetishism. These are both steps in the radicalization of Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, drawing on freud's idea of fetishism as a perverse structure. The article notes that Baudrillard provided inventories of fetishism at regular intervals in his writings, and that these remained curiously...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Mark Featherstone In this article, I seek to explore the psychopolitical significance of the contemporary idea of luxury through reference to the Roman concept of luxus , which means excess, extravagance, indulgence, and debauchery. In the first section of the article, I examine the politics...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the idea of refamiliarization as an associative reading that resituates images within networks and scenes of knowledge. The idea is proposed as a task of recovery, rather than alienation, and suggests a line between the shock-effect approach of exposure, predicated on a belief in a false surface...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... approaches the topics from the angle of media studies and argues for new ways to understand media culture as read through a materials focus: from waste to building materials and from temperature control to more conceptual developments concerning new materialism. The introduction discusses these ideas...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 58–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... , anticipate the contemporary public recalibration of ideas of intimacy as associated with social media, tally with contested ideas of the sexualization of female empowerment as associated with contested elements of third wave feminism, and can be read as a contemporary phase of Antonio Negri’s theory of art...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of ways that political incorrectness can function as a means of exposing the persistence of historical and ethical questions that are ostentatiously resolved. He does this by drawing on Alain Badiou’s idea of militant ethics and Jacques Rancière’s redefinition of critical art as one that produces...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... traceable to traditional agricultural motifs, metaphors relating to fat often connote processes of fattening that evoke ideas about consumption, as well as devouring and animality. To see how the fat imaginary informs contemporary political discourses, the article probes the “fat American” as a consuming...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... is about a certain kind of anxious passivity in the face of incomprehensible catastrophe, but it is also a narrative about work and idleness. As such, the idea of being “on the beach” invites consideration of the shore as a liminal space where often conflicting social and existential issues of meaning...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of our twenty-first-century virus crisis can be discerned, even influenced. The crisis isn't just biological, it is about ideas and how they propagate through, for example, conspiracy theories and inflammatory actions. Viral emotions are integral to what is happening, as attention to both the virus...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Mark Featherstone Abstract In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical story of the resurrection...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... “interventions” ( A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name ). Žižek claims to have completed an intellectual system (continuing the idea of earlier essays) that, as a philosophical foundation, currently informs his political writings. The review follows the sexual problematic through Žižek's philosophy (its...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Beatriz Polivanov; Fernanda Carrera Abstract The quest for the so-called perfect body has been an issue in Brazilian society for a long time, especially for women. A number of “digital influencers” perform a fitness lifestyle, producing subjectivities entangled with an idea of success and “well...
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