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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
... to informational capitalism. If, as Terranova argues, free labor is characterized by exhaustion—due to the lack of means by which this labor can sustain itself—why are millions of people still sustaining a commitment to such pervasive modes of unremunerated work? To formulate an answer to this question, I first...
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Hardt and Negri’s Information Empire: A Critical Response
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 101–118.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Mark Poster Hardt and Negri’s Empire contains dystopian gestures toward information technology. In this essay I examine these aspects of their important work, without ignoring their more positive understandings of the topic. I hope to sustain three arguments about networked digital information...
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Fragment of blanket 7, “Informal Street Vendors Union and Top Manta Politic...
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in Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 12 Fragment of blanket 7, “Informal Street Vendors Union and Top Manta Political Struggles.” Courtesy of Flavio Coddou / IRL.
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Image of the blankets extended along the length of the building, as in an i...
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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 16 Image of the blankets extended along the length of the building, as in an informal street market. Courtesy of Leve.
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From the outset, the project sought to avoid an overload of design, an aest...
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in Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 15 From the outset, the project sought to avoid an overload of design, an aestheticization of informal street vending, and looked for the simplest formalization of the exhibition's content. Courtesy of Leve.
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A Deweyan Experience Economy for Higher Education: The Case of the Australian Indie 100 Music Event
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Phil Graham; Michael Dezuanni; Andy Arthurs; Greg Hearn In this essay we argue that a Deweyan experience economy will best support the higher education (HE) sector in the future, and we draw a contrast between that economy and the sector’s current focus on informational concerns, as expressed...
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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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News, Celebrity, and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Michael Jackson Verdict
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of the verdict announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson. The nature of “news” has been transformed by new media technology, the erosion of the division between public and private, and the growth of a celebrity culture. during the last two decades the volume of information in circulation, and the speed...
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Pixelated Flesh
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... specific role and operation in relation to contemporary representations of incarceration. In particular, the article considers the figure of the incarcerated informant. The incarcerated criminal or informant plays a complex role as both subversive other and purveyor of truth and as such constitutes...
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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Kieran Keohane Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich...
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Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s Jovial Modernity
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
... that has happened in the twentieth century, still seems to inform both the realist projects of philosophical critique and the Heideggerian belief in the “ Kehre .” © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 megalopsychia mediality critical theory mobilization posthistory humanism complexity...
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Interest and Excess of Modern Man’s Radical Medio crity: Rescaling Sloterdijk’s Grandiose Aesthetic Strategy
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Henk Oosterling In my contribution, I adopt Sloterdijk’s analysis of globalization as the megalomaneous or “hyperpolitical” installing of a total work of art ( Gesamtkunstwerk ). I rephrase his threefold (energetical, informational, and epistemological) “explicitation” of man’s radical immersion...
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Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2007
... during the 2004 and 2006 Canadian elections in order to expose the limits of the media's criticism of polling and to contend that published preelection polls contribute to the formation of suspicious subjects. I go on to argue that political campaign communication is open to information accidents so...
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The Right-Wing Attack on Critical and Public Education in the United States: From Neoliberalism to Neoconservativism
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 339–358.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Kenneth J. Saltman This article discusses how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies, policies, and political projects inform the changing nature of educational privatization efforts by the right wing. It contends that these projects, which are global in nature, threaten the development of forms...
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“WIKIVISM”: FROM COMMUNICATIVE CAPITALISM TO ORGANIZED NETWORKS
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... perfunctory language – whether as “information-rich data banks” or else animating the “fantasy of abundance” – and allow us to see them in a decidedly “political” way, as necessarily “incomplete” and thus eminently “rewritable” formations. This essay then concludes by examining the wider implications...
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“As Seen on Tv.” The Celebrity Expert: How Taste Is Shaped by Lifestyle Media
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 111–124.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of “celebrity.” It is concerned with how television, print, and advertising contribute to the construction of media stars whose function is to transfer knowledge of particular lifestyles to the lived experience of ordinary people. It looks at systems that direct the flow of such information and why...
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“ARE THE RUSSIANS INVOLVED, SIR?”: THE BRITISH DIMENSION OF DR. STRANGELOVE
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
... film was informed throughout the period of its creation by the differences in political and cultural attitudes toward the nuclear threat that existed between the US and the UK during the Cold War. This allowed the film to act as a reflection of the shift in the general understanding of the nuclear...
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Distribution and Media Flows
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 July 2005
... distribution and the redistribution of profits and information derived from audiences – is critical to an understanding of twenty-first-century cultural politics. It offers an analysis of distribution, and considerations on the politics of alternative modes of distribution. References Acland Charles R...
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Breaking the Surface
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 233–242.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Joanna Griffin Research for an arts project is often as much about the experience of looking for information as the findings themselves. This article is about an investigation into the presence of submarines in British waters. The research was for a new body of work that resulted...
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The Reception of Lyotard's Discours, figure during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 312–329.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Sergio Meijide Casas Abstract Unlike its English version, first published in 2011, Discours, figure was published in Spanish in 1979, four years after Francisco Franco's death, during the Spanish transition to democracy. The relevance of this information is connected to the fact that the man who...
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