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Bats, Bombs, and Toxic Waste in America's Purloined Landscape
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 March 2012
... conceit, albeit via a source Jacques Lacan and others have previously employed in a similar fashion. Chapter 1 is titled “The Purloined Landscape,” a reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter , for the landscape, like the letter, “remains hidden,” because it “is not taken away but rendered...
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in The Vanishing Native: Torture and Settler Colonialism in Transnational French Cinema
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 5 Daru and Mohamed walk to Tinguit across the barren Algerian landscape. Far from Men , dir. David Oelhoffen, 2014 .
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 313–322.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the “social,” or “sociocultural,” as always affective, and in viewing the significance of landscape in terms of how people define themselves and their relations to the world, this essay explores affect's key role in countering entrenched, predefined systems of thought and feeling and its potential...
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Playgrounds and Bombsites: Postwar Britain's Ruined Landscapes
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Ben Highmore This essay argues that bombsites in Britain were a vivid component of a social imaginary that informed the postwar social settlement. Postwar reconstruction, which often involved additional demolition, also produced ruined landscapes that were complexly associated with war damage...
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Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 9 Ravi Agarwal, Na'dar Landscapes Series—1 , Na'dar/Prakriti series (2018). Lithograph.
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Figure 10 Ravi Agarwal, Na'dar Landscapes Series—7 , Na'dar/Prakriti series (2018). Lithograph.
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Killing Memory: Roadside Memorial Removals and the Necropolitics of Affect
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... are legitimately allowed to memorialize their losses in public landscapes and others are not, and where anonymous drivers who drive by are supposed to feel a certain way about it all. Such a complex constellation of territorialized affect has significant consequences for understanding the politics of affect...
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Post-Postracial America: On Westworld and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 198–215.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Alison Landsberg A seismic shift in the racial landscape of the United States occurred in 2016. The prevailing discourse about a “postracial America,” though always, in the words of Catherine Squires a “mystique,” was firmly and finally extinguished with the election of Donald J. Trump. Race...
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Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
... frequently served as substrates for written texts. The formal properties of those scripts—the shapes they took on their clay or, eventually, parchment and paper foundations—were also in some cases reflected in urban form: how the city molded itself from the materials of the landscape. And those written...
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Luck, Power, Corruption, Democracy? Judging Arts Prizes
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 July 2005
...John Street Arts prizes have become an increasingly prominent part of the cultural landscape, influencing not only the careers of individual artists but also the policies of cultural industries and cultural institutions. Despite this, relatively little detailed attention has been given to the arts...
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Do You Hear the People's Nonsense?: Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., as well as between resistance and resilience. It seeks to understand how artistic expressions and acts of protest can transgress with nonsensical expressions. Situating itself in the context of postmodernism, authoritarian regimes, and multimedia landscape, this article sees nonsense as an artistic...
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Xyloid Sexuality: Dismantling the Human in Wangechi Mutu's Arboreal Collages
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Caroline Edwards Abstract The Kenyan-born, US-based artist Wangechi Mutu is fascinated by the human body and its nonhuman possibilities. In Mutu's collaged works, human forms are repeatedly ripped apart and reassembled within fantasy landscapes that speak of decomposition and regrowth. This article...
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The Dialectic of Sex , after the Post-1960s
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the text’s contributions to radical feminism in relation to a contemporary project of revolutionary feminism. To do this, the author suggests, requires a more nuanced approach to historicizing and engaging with political confusion—marking a matter of great urgency for the current cultural landscape...
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Exhausted Montage: Radical Cinema Post ’68
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
... practice is understood. As such, montage continues to occupy a central place in today’s radical aesthetic imagination, its model of active spectatorship still accepted as a vital expression of an autogestive oppositional politics. However, the economic and political landscape has changed significantly over...
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Manifest images. Using projected ultraviolet light, we are able to both see...
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Figure 9 Manifest images. Using projected ultraviolet light, we are able to both see and understand the nocturnal landscape of the moth, who can see into a deep ultraviolet blue spectrum.
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Published: 01 November 2023
the landscape of the coffee agro-forests around the village in Pangkhon.
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Published: 01 November 2012
Figure 1 Recall , 2012. Archival digital print on Hahnemühle paper, 11.5 × 15.25 in. (Landscape based on The Hero Rustam Slays the Witch of the Cosmic Illusion , an illustration attributed to Qadîmî by S. C. Welch, from Firdawsī's Book of Kings , copied in Tabriz from Shâh Tahmâsp between
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Vortex: Artistic and Curatorial Practices for Wind
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 485–497.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Víctor Mazón Gardoqui; Jussi Parikka In general, the tumuli, funerary monuments ( fig. 3 ), represent the earliest example of monumental architecture (Antona, Lo Schiavo, and Perra 2011); they remind of the modification of landscape as well as the social order of these incipient sedentary...
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A Multispecies Red-Light District for Amsterdam: A Propositional Image
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 155–165.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 9 Manifest images. Using projected ultraviolet light, we are able to both see and understand the nocturnal landscape of the moth, who can see into a deep ultraviolet blue spectrum. ...
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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
... the field of view so as to intensify expression.” Aragon’s remarks, while seldom referenced explicitly, can be seen to resonate with the work of a number of filmmakers in Europe and the United States who operate outside of conventional narrative codes and who show a deliberate focus on landscape. James...
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