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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of communication” as “media” but otherwise adopt the same approach. In these primal scenes, media theory was—and remains—primarily about identifying paradigms that can offer “enthralling vistas” onto the techniques, systems, and infrastructures of civilization. Figure 1 Innis in a canoe on the Peace River...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as extensions of material media theory and addresses how they can complement already existing ideas in the field. The section is concluded by Rosi Braidotti’s important overview of how the issues addressed in this section can be contextualized as part of the discussion of posthumanities. Braidotti elaborates...
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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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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that urban spaces will be littered with thousands of new antennas, invisibly hidden in all sorts of housings such as street lamps, advertising pillars, and neon signs. This development is not stopping at the countryside either. This essay uses media theory and examples from art and technology to speculate...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... cultural techniques Friedrich Kittler media theory Bernhard Siegert Words strain and crack, the poet laments; they slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place. What poets deplore, theorists have come to exploit. Indeed, what has inspired the last five decades of theorizing more...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Scott Wark References Geoghegan Bernard Dionysius . 2013 . “ After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory .” Theory, Culture, and Society 30 ( 6 ): 66 – 82 . Horn Eva . 2007 . “ Editor’s Introduction: ‘There Are No Media .’” Grey Room...
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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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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... politics is actually just another form of the liberalism of Habermas and Rawls that she positions her theory against. The article then explores the potential digital media hold for making affirmative, affective, hyperpolitical interventions in specific contents and singular situations. In particular...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 July 2023
... reach into a variety of subjects. But it comes at a cost. Given the capaciousness of “mediation,” it sometimes becomes difficult to understand what exactly the author is problematizing. The historical narrative is at times overshadowed by sophisticated, yet overwhelming, inquiries into media theory...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the horror of contemporary media culture. Finally, the article reflects on Virilio’s work on technodesertification and disappearance and Stiegler’s theory of the destruction of the delay of desire in the immediacy of drive through attention capture to show how screen culture annihilates the thickness...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the present, archive the past, and organize the future. This is, then, a work of media theory, but one that emphatically rejects the Anglo-American field’s tendency to privilege narrative and spectacle at the expense of the operational. The book makes a valuable contribution to an emergent logistical...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 275–280.
Published: 01 July 2018
... with seeming comfort across cultural studies, post-colonial theory, media arts, and film studies. This kind of disciplinary curiosity is also on display in Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies , a book that as much as anything is an exercise in transdisciplinary experimentation...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 255–278.
Published: 01 November 2021
... percent of Republicans believe that the QAnon conspiracy theory is mostly true, while another 23 percent say that some parts of the QAnon theory are true (Civiqs 2020 ). Despite the historical and media-technical specificity of the QAnon phenomenon, in many ways it figures as a palimpsest of right...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., and perhaps some higher animal, structural regeneration. In dwelling on aesthetic and political theories derived from the political events of the 1930s and 1940s, along with the then new development, spread, and application of photographic media, Slavick appears distracted from the vital issues of our own...
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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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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 58–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... , anticipate the contemporary public recalibration of ideas of intimacy as associated with social media, tally with contested ideas of the sexualization of female empowerment as associated with contested elements of third wave feminism, and can be read as a contemporary phase of Antonio Negri’s theory of art...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... beyond all human thresholds. Kittler argues that the resulting ability to subvert and simulate human perception is the very definition of technical media. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 digital media early film Fourier transform media theory sound analysis time axis manipulation...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 487–489.
Published: 01 November 2022
... are structuring the experience and ordering of time as well as how media infrastructures establish certain temporal milieus or regimes following their logics. In this way, the volume speaks to several tendencies characteristic of current media theory as well as social science and humanities more generally...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
...://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/01/17/whoever-leads-in-artificial-intelligence-in-2030-will-rule-the-world-until-2100/ . Groo Katherine . 2021 . “ At the Gates of Hell: Indexical Pasts, Black Hole Futures .” Paper presented at “Media Theory Colloquium,” Humboldt University Berlin...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... aspects I contextualize his claim of abundance in political economy, anthropology, media theory, and ontology. Then I return to aesthetics and politics. I specify in my own terms his media-theoretical underpinning of anthropology. In order to rephrase his critique of the indifference and mediocrity...
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