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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 340–345.
Published: 01 November 2020
... or disrupt those worlds. The articles presented here, then, not only build on and extend scholarship in cultural theory but also engage with current interdisciplinary debates around new materialisms, relationalities between the human and nonhuman, the intimacies of power and agency, and corporeal...
View articletitled, Corporeal Consumption: <span class="search-highlight">Materiality</span>, Agency, and Resistance in Body/World Encounters
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., making, and tasting that constitute the movement, he finds the lineament of a strategic materialism that aims to make visible and is open toward the agency of the nonhuman matter, and which does so by addressing simultaneously wine’s terroir and taste, by means of profanating their taken-for-granted...
View articletitled, Profanating Gastro-Normativity: Exploring the Nonhuman <span class="search-highlight">Materiality</span> of Making and Tasting Wine in the Natural Wine Movement
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 480–483.
Published: 01 November 2022
... really is? [email protected] [email protected] Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence , by Susan Schuppli , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2020 , 392 pages, $40 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-262-04357-1 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of vulnerability. Thinking with the ocean reveals how anthropogenic harms manifest and proliferate both materially and through the discursive networks of ocean governance. Though material vulnerability is a condition that brings us into being interconnectedly with other worlds, it also (unevenly) implicates us...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... Critical infrastructure studies participate in the broader material turn taken in the humanities over the last thirty years. This turn takes many forms in different geographic and intellectual contexts. Beyond a sometimes vague emphasis on materiality, it is difficult to find connective tissue between...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... an attack on reigning approaches to the left and right that neglected the means of communication in favor of the content and the social effect of the messages communicated. The so-called German and Canadian media theories responded by stressing the materialities rather than the hermeneutics of communication...
View articletitled, The Kultur of Cultural Techniques: Conceptual Inertia and the Parasitic <span class="search-highlight">Materialities</span> of Ontologization
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Published: 01 July 2014
Figure 3 More new-build suburbia; ultra was the code word for intelligence material from Bletchley Park. Photo: Gair Dunlop
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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 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Shannon Mattern For millennia, mud and its geologic analogues have bound together our media, urban, architectural, and environmental histories. Some of the first writing surfaces, clay and stone, were the same materials used to construct ancient city walls and buildings, whose facades also...
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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 (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Christopher E. Forth Materially as well as metaphorically, fat is seemingly ubiquitous in Donald Trump’s America. Rather than simply a rude comment to make about someone’s appearance or capacity for self-control, the word refers to a form of matter and style of metaphor that helps structure...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... condemnation of Benjamin's futuristic messianism by showing how the author of “On the Concept of History” was already materialistic prior to the Slovene's psychoanalytic correction. Apart from this critique of The Puppet and the Dwarf , I also rely on Žižek's thesis to uncover the revolutionary materialism...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., it cannot be examined from a social point of view. In my paper, I will first discuss the features indicating that concentration camp prisoners did indeed comprise societies, and will thereupon present in greater detail the evidence of such societies found in the empirical material. Through a detailed...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Eva Haifa Giraud Abstract This essay delineates the material and conceptual limitations of two prominent ways of figuring the relationship between humans and harmful beings: narratives of eradication and entanglement. Ecological concern about the legacies of twentieth-century attempts to eradicate...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to the project of transcending gross materialism while simultaneously using material cues to communicate that joyful transcendence. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 success celebrity wealth luxury race gender South Africa Visual expression, self...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
... means negotiating a material field created by the speeds of the global objects of communication. This article focuses on one aspect of the dromoeconomy, the users and producers of this system, the “dromospheric generation.” It explores the generation of the 2000s, users of screen-based digital...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicole Starosielski This article documents how thermal manipulation is critical to the transformation of the earth’s raw materials into media and to maintaining those materials as media. Through an examination of thermal practices, including mineral extraction, the use of air-conditioning in media...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 339–354.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Verena Andermatt Conley In ecological thinking, the term care is of shifting valence. In philosophical and literary history, care is inflected as worrisome, burdensome, while, at the same time, uplifting and given to life. It has functional virtue in material practices based on what can be called...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... material politics. This article explores a number of issues surrounding entanglements of media and plastics, including the formation of vast oceanic plastic garbage patches, the treatment of highly toxic electronics waste, the usage of thermal papers that disrupt the human endocrine system...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1 Unknown Fields at work in the London Sculpture Workshop. The mud taken from a radioactive tailings lake in Inner Mongolia contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material.
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