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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 March 2018
... observed in elite, and other, lives. Luxury enclosure of elites suggests related problems on the horizons of the mass distribution and experience of immersive technologies. © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 luxury enclosure mimesis immersive technologies The study of luxury has most commonly...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that urban spaces will be littered with thousands of new antennas, invisibly hidden in all sorts of housings such as street lamps, advertising pillars, and neon signs. This development is not stopping at the countryside either. This essay uses media theory and examples from art and technology to speculate...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... portals into alternate modes of reality, albeit, as Sanchez (2010), points out, frequently taking lived reality discriminations with them. Within a contemporary culture in which the technological opportunities of abandoning reality are increasingly more numerous, attractive, stimulating, and immersive...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
...). From the perspective of a “theory of constitutive luxury,” in which anthropology and phenomenology converge (2004: 709), man’s relation to technology is not so much determined by the in strumentalizing will of a Cartesian subject as by the latter’s immersion in its “own” media. There is thus not only...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... post-DSK comeback, celebrating pride against the vanishing point of a sign expressing exuberance for foreskins. Baudrillard was one of the first to read terrorism as the most spectacular effect of our new immersive technologies. But he noted other quotidian “integrated-circuiting...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 134–138.
Published: 01 March 2015
... McLuhan, and George Grant allows us to assert that there exists a distinctive “Canadian discourse on technology” ( Kroker 1984 ), then surely Arthur Kroker is to be regarded as one of the leading contemporary exponents of this line of thought. Claiming that this project involves theorizing a middle way...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 November 2012
... computing both as an industrial infrastructure and as a conceptual reframing of computer technology, these questions foreground a critical contradiction through which a political analysis of informatic culture might be possible. This particular contradiction—between the specific material possibilities...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., or using GPS to record affective responses to the disruptive and disrupted environment in which they are immersed. I am interested in the passage through often unknown invisible urban spaces and what affects manifest in due course (Richardson 2017 ). In this play of dislocation-relocation, technology can...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
... participation is given a peculiarly twentieth-century inflection in Virilio’s work in that for him it has now become intensified by technology’s emergence as the primary material basis for an ontology of total immersion. For Virilio, in the contemporary era, the era of the triumph of the technological...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... quartz production requires a similar set of techniques. After crushing and grinding equipment is used to process mined quartz lumps, a variety of sorting technologies “liberate impurities” from the crystals ( Haus, Prinz, and Priess 2012 : 46). The ore is also exposed to magnets and immersed in water...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 July 2016
... or routine to appreciate cherry trees in blossom. It is through this esteem of the present, if not immersion into, or even explosion of, the present, that we “emerge from finality itself” (37), freeing ourselves from all regulatory projects that only have us escaping from all presents...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the artist in January 2020, exploring key themes relating to the experience of exile, the politics of art, and the Heideggerian philosophy of poetry and the revealing of being. Given the contemporary age characterized by mobility, homelessness, technological rationality, and increasingly desperate attempts...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and goings. Sympathetic vibrations in immersive sound spaces tell us we are “just being there alive, in and as the excess of sound” (Henriques 2011 : xvii). If ancestors are indeed present in language, logic, and technologies, then there is also a post conscious persistence in the world. Alongside all...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the foundations for the rest of the articles making up this issue. The first essay in the second sequence of articles, by Lee Barron, focuses on how fully immersive, online computer-gaming worlds are much more than mere simulations or pale imitations. “More” because they are duel [ sic .], both a paragon...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... They not only support the idea of a nature-culture continuum but also provide the philosophical grounding for technological mediation to be defined not as a form of representation but as the expression of “medianaturecultural” ethical relations and forces. 1 Donna Haraway (1990 , 2003 ) is a pioneer...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to crush the defiant crowds. Among these nondeadly weapons, the most controversial and disputable one was tear gas. Having been used historically in wars but then banned, tear gas is considered a nonfatal, less lethal, and more humane airborne governing technology, thus allowed for riot control in civil...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Paul Stacey This article examines two different approaches to the political significance of networked technologies like the Internet. It considers Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner’s “critical/reconstructive” methodology and Jodi Dean’s account of “communicative capitalism,” and shows how...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 194–201.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., and invisible narratives between Asia and the Americas. I hope that the immersive experiences merging art, education, and technology will spur a new consciousness of how even small things—such as a nutmeg—can render exponential ramifications. As I continue to mine how the transhistoric weight of spice, silk...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chris Hables Gray; Ángel J. Gordo There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
... to the problematization of the conventional spectrum of left and right political positions. Referring to the work of Marx, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon, Stiegler characterizes his account of cultural capitalism in relation to his critique of the philosophy of technology. He talks about how his more...