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Programmed Violence: On the Object of Media Studies
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the positioning of subjects toward, as well as by, the media and the epistemological question of what the object of media studies is. 13. For further on the rediscovery of formal versus efficient causality, see McLuhan 1962: 18 . 12. This passage has been back-translated from the German translation...
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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
... representational systems. I have focused more on structured regularities and less on difference. Because the effect is neither regular nor predictable, choosing a case study is difficult. The Michael Jackson trial attracted media attention around the world; it was not hard to predict that the verdict would...
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Deep Times of Planetary Trouble
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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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Phenomenology for the Selfie
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 156–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
... that defines a figure as distinct from a background. In the process, this produces whatever can be thought to be a “self,” with the background receding from awareness. In using phenomenology to examine the selfie, this essay makes a larger methodological claim for the study of digital media, one that refuses...
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Understanding Our Own “Death by Amusement”: The Hijacking of a Western Cultural Theory in China
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 194–205.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tao Dongfeng This essay provides an introduction to the ways in which Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman has been applied to Chinese cultural studies, and especially to media studies. It argues that the emerging phenomenon of “amusing ourselves to death” in China is fundamentally different...
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The Cold Model of Structure: Friedrich Kittler Interviewed by Christoph Weinberger
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 375–384.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler media studies structuralism Germany Christoph Weinberger: Does your orientation toward music, mathematics, and the alphabet in ancient Greece present a continuation or a departure from your work of the 1980s? Is there a “turning” in Friedrich...
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The Critical Posthumanities; Or, Is Medianatures to Naturecultures as Zoe Is to Bios ?
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Rosi Braidotti This article situates the geological turn in media theory within the critical posthumanities, defining them in both quantitative and qualitative terms. They can be assessed quantitatively by reviewing the proliferation of interdisciplinary “studies” areas—such as media and gender...
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Innis’s Infrastructure: Dirt, Beavers, and Documents in Material Media Theory
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Liam Cole Young The work of Harold Adams Innis offers important contributions to the recent “infrastructural” turn in media, communication, and cultural studies. While Innis’s late communication studies texts are widely read, few outside Canada engage with his earlier economic histories...
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Thermocultures of Geological Media
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and the demand for homogeneity across elements and media objects—organize temperature management. The thermocultures of media inflect its composition, movements, and temporalities and embed it within existing regimes of capitalism, gender, race, and sexuality. The study of thermocultures offers an alternative...
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Distribution and Media Flows
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Sean Cubitt While production, text and audience have been extensively covered by media and cultural studies scholars, the study of distribution is in its infancy. This essay argues that the distributive moment of the media cycle – incorporating delivery to audiences, business-to-business...
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“To Believe in an Image (Again)”: The Politics of the Index, André Bazin's Ontology of Sense, and the Antidote to Digital Skepticism
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Corey P. Cribb Abstract In screen studies and photography studies, the name of the acclaimed film theorist and critic André Bazin is frequently invoked by scholars seeking to defend the import of analogue media on ontological grounds by citing photography's privileged connection to the real...
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Godard in Sarajevo: Media Control in Deleuze and Virilio
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 333–353.
Published: 01 November 2014
... on media and warfare. This critique is organized around a study of the recent films of Jean-Luc Godard, which focus on the recurrence of the images of the mainstream culture industry and their transformation in wartime Sarajevo. It argues that Godard’s work is concerned with a cinema of cliché, following...
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The Dark Side of the Spectacle: Terror in Norway and the UK Riots
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Douglas Kellner In studies of the spectacle of terror in Norway and the UK riots in summer 2011, I highlight the roles of media spectacle and crises of masculinity in these eruptions of social violence, although I suggest multicausal explanation and do not wish to offer reductive analyses...
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Media after the “Medial a Priori”
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Press 2017 Sybille Krämer’s ostensible aim in her recently translated book, Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy , is to rehabilitate the out-of-fashion concept of “transmission” in media studies. By doing so, this book attempts to develop an avowedly metaphysical...
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The Lab as Cultural Technique and Medium
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Anke Finger [email protected] The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies , by Darren Wershler , Lori Emerson , and Jussi Parikka , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2022 , 328 pages, $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0217-9 ; $30.00 (paper), ISBN...
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Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres at Risk Ally with Public Spheres Yet to Be Achieved?
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Michael M.J Fischer Twelve cartoons, published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, nine cartoons published in the Tehran newspaper Iran in May 2006, and 282 cartoons curated in Tehran in September 2006 provide a useful case study in the experimentation with new and old media...
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Why Look at Toy Animals?: Play, Protopolitics, and the Postnatural
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and developmental studies of play, the toy itself is rarely addressed as a distinct symbolic or technical artifact. In recent years, studies of digital games, media, and transmedia have begun to explore ontological questions of play and toys such as dolls and LEGO as they move between the actual and the virtual...
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Cultural Infrastructure
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... or infrastructural media studies, where scholars of quite different methodological investments agree on the urgent need to interrogate the procedural form of media. For Young, it is only by examining the longer history of the list that we can begin to apprehend the material circumstances of the digital...
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A Time to Gather Stones: Nomadism After War in Susanne Slavick's Out of Rubble
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that are insidiously imposed from without, internationally. Although largely unintentional, Slavick's essay and selection of art combined present the scholar and critic of theory and ideology with a fascinating study of the ongoing tension between the current predilection for commentary and analysis of conflict...
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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
... prize. While at the same time media-generated conventional wisdom has tended to portray prize juries as acting either corruptly or irrationally. This article challenges such views, and argues that the prize jury needs to be understood as a form of political institution, in which decision rules, power...
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