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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Joanne Roberts This article investigates the moral acceptability of contemporary luxury. The meaning of luxury and its manifestations in today’s economically developed countries are explored. The nature of morality is considered, and the evolving moral standing of luxury from the classical period...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Mark Featherstone A Philosophy of Luxury , by Wiesing Lambert , translated by Roth Nancy Ann , London : Routledge , 2019 , 172 pages, $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780367138417 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 In A Philosophy of Luxury , Lambert Wiesing, chair...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 51–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...John Armitage © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 While the term cultural politics of luxury may be employed, generally, to denote all cultural and political features of the study of luxury, and as such may be taken to include the varied cultural and political ways in which luxury...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 78–89.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Lambert Wiesing The aim of this article is to introduce the idea of a phenomenology of luxury. The thesis is that luxury cannot be a characteristic of things or of actions, but that it arises through a private aesthetic experience, which can be identified as a functional equivalent to play...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2018
...) and to his “Against Feminine Luxury,” which, written in 1920, Cultural Politics publishes here for the first time in English translation by Chris Turner. Marinetti, the prosecutor at the trial of feminine luxury, echoes his previous opposition to existing sexual institutions when he terms them contemptibly...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 410–412.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Riley Kucheran Making Prestigious Places: How Luxury Influences the Transformation of Cities , edited by Paris Mario , New York : Routledge , 2017 , 192 pages, $125.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1138232525 © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 The basic premise of Making...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
...John Armitage; Joanne Roberts The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest historical and etymological origins...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 23–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Friedrich Justin Bertuch; Georg Melchior Kraus; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young References Borchert Angela . 2015 . “Luxus als Komfort im Journal des Luxus und der Moden. Wissenspopularisierung und Kulturanthropologie am Beispiel kontrovers diskutierter Schuhmoden um 1800” (“Luxury as Comfort...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 32–41.
Published: 01 March 2016
... refers also to Montesquieu’s argument that the equal distribution of wealth would put an end to luxury but rejects his thinking on the grounds that inequality provides the greatest stimulus to production.—Trans. 4 Henri Baudrillart, Histoire du luxe privé et public, depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 42–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
...-century Belgian political economist in a twenty-first-century special issue of a journal devoted to the global cultural politics of luxury. However, rare among political economists, Laveleye always displayed a keen interest in the relations between culture—understood in the philosophical sense of morality...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Patricia Mooney Nickel In its materialization of regard and disregard, the 2015 introduction of the Starbucks luxury line prompts new questions about the impact of an emergent app ascetic on the everyday practice of order. In this article, I build on previous studies of time and power, while...
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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 (2016) 12 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Adam George Dunn Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune , by Ross Kristin , London : Verso , 2015 , 148 pages, £16.99 (hardcover only) ISBN 9781781688397 © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Kristin Ross’s new book on the Paris Commune extends her...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 49–53.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Giulia Zaniol © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 The online debate and art exhibition Brand Art Sensation was launched in 2015 in the United Kingdom, in London’s Fitzrovia, alongside a number of advertising billboards that questioned the connections between luxury branding, artist...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jonathan Faiers Disruptive luxury is a recent addition to the lexicon of luxury. Understood as both a practical and philosophical antidote to luxury’s entrenched patterns of production and consumption, the term disruptive is proving to be as indeterminate as the word luxury itself, with its complex...
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Figure 3 Eminent Luxury Fashion Photograph , 2015. Original photo print under acrylic glass, limited edition of 3, 120 ×180 cm
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Figure 4 Miss Clair Luxury Fashion Photograph , 2015. Original photo print under acrylic glass, limited edition of 3, 120 ×180 cm
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 March 2018
...George E. Marcus Personal design of one’s emplacement in the world has been a luxury of elite as well as achieved middle-class privilege and wealth. Such enclosure leaks especially on its visual horizons and is explored by mimetic relation to difference, defining eccentricities and contradictions...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Tereza Kuldova This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Mehita Iqani Abstract This article explores the ways in which patina is deployed in gendered celebrity culture, specifically through forms of visual communication in relation to luxury. The article is framed by literature on race and gender from apartheid to postapartheid, and texture in visual...
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