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Brainstorming Revisited: On Instrumental Creativity and Human Productivity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Claudia Mareis; Burke Barrett This article discusses a particular strand in the history of creativity in the mid-twentieth century shaped by an instrumental, production-oriented understanding of the term. When the field of creativity research emerged in the United States after World War II, debates...
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Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American de-Urbanization, 1930–1945
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Gregory Clancey This article is one step toward an urban history of the United States that foregrounds “emergency” as a clearing device. American cities were strategically targeted during the sustained mid-twentieth century depression and war by a complex of groups – the Federal government...
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“They Can Never Take it Away from You”: The Optimistic Cruelty of Student Loan Indebtedness
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Britain Hopkins Abstract This article uses the contradictions and complicity of conclusions to think through the United States’ collective student loan burden while grounding this burden at its historical roots in the mid-twentieth century. In particular, it is concerned with the impasse...
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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
... contributions. Integrating Innis into these debates allows us, the author argues, to move beyond the limits of his mid-twentieth-century work, and to expand the horizons of what John Durham Peters calls “infrastructuralism.” Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 infrastructure media theory media...
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The Digital Calculus of Racial Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 473–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., as it was conceived within the cybernetic sciences in the mid-twentieth century, mirrors capital's structural logic of value as it has been understood by Marxist thinkers including Moishe Postone and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. For the cyberneticians, digitality was the abstraction of an analogue reality into discrete...
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Jazz in Britain: Export Culture, Import Society
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Catherine Parsonage McKay states two aims for the book: first, to examine jazz as an “export culture” and the context of the “import society” of mid-twentieth-century Britain as a “case study in the operation of the process or problem of ‘Americanization’” and secondly, “to interrogate...
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Bauman’s Sociology of Hope
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 296–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
... are of discussions (in the late 1970s and early 1980s) about hope, which is a recurring—and fluctuating—theme in his work. 1 In his early arguments about utopia, which could be read in relation to mid-twentieth-century postwar interest catalyzed by Ernst Bloch and others in relation to the violence, destruction...
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“DO NOT LEAVE YOUR Homes”: CONTAINMENT CULTURE AND ITS FALLOUT IN JUDITH MERRIL’S SHADOW ON THE HEARTH
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 337–350.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to be saturated with the ideological and cultural constraints produced by the United States’ positioning of itself in the new geopolitical landscapes of the mid-twentieth century. It is not so much, therefore, that I disagree with most current readings of the novel – indeed, I am indebted to many of them and some...
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System, Totality, Representation: “Utopian Globalist” Gestures of Dissent in Late Cold War Visual Arts and Culture
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
... and “actually existing” communist variants. Radical political and imaginative thinking about futures in the West, as a result of the Cold War standoff, was rendered mostly impossible. Utopia , as Fredric Jameson and others have argued, by the mid-twentieth century had become an ideological equivalent...
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Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and technology risk social reproduction 6 This “urge to ‘hack’ politics by bringing governance down to a manageable local level” in the ethos of Silicon Valley extends back to countercultural beliefs of the mid-twentieth century ( Turner 2006 : 219). 7 As of 2012, the median annual income...
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Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 418–429.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as home from the mid-twentieth century onward. This idiosyncratic take comes out of a personal family history that feels both detached yet very much affected by these larger world affairs. Father's silence on his own past makes it a frustrating endeavor in piecing together a personal history...
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Running to Stand Still: Late Modernity's Acceleration Fixation
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... that experienced by those who lived during the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Throughout the essay we compare change from both subperiods and the totality of the years 1850–1950 with the present, often loosely rendered as the post-1950 period. When, on occasions, we take our most extreme liberties we...
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The Politics of Cultural Studies and Cool Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... culture and Mass Observation's anthropological research on everyday cultures in mid-twentieth century Britain (see, for instance, Stanton 1996 ). Williams (1989) himself attributed the emergence of Cultural Studies to the adult-education movement, university extension classes, and the Workers...
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Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On: History on Vivan Sundaram's Boat-Works
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 359–384.
Published: 01 November 2009
... “Place for People” (see Note 3), the second-generation advocated a return to figuration within an engagement with the urban Indian milieu. Instating the figure into a vernacular, syncretic urban modernity, this move was at once a response to the mid twentieth-century abstractions of the Progressives...
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The Return of the Art and Technology Lab
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... as the enemy of democracy than the lever of emancipation, and the oft-stated virtues of collaboration between art and technology had shaded into the more sinister implications of collaborationism. 2 Beyond their significance to the history of mid-twentieth-century American art, what makes these projects...
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“In a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . .”: C-3PO, Mink, and the Promise of Disruptive Luxury
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., as well as Iris van Herpen. Although extravagantly innovative in their material and computer-assisted generation, many of these 3-D shoe projects are nevertheless decidedly mid-twentieth century in their wedged or platformed vertiginousness. Perhaps Bitonti’s most celebrated project to date...
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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 it is long past the time when our old warhorses of aesthetic criticism should be put to rest—if for no other reason than to clear room for more viable and vital voices to take hold. Benjamin, Adorno, and Brecht will always have much to tell us about the art and developing culture of the mid-twentieth century...
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After the “Age of Wreckers and Exterminators?”: Confronting the Limits of Eradication and Entanglement Narratives
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
... he uses to characterize the widespread ethos of eradicating life deemed harmful to humans. This ethos, he suggests, permeated high-profile public health interventions throughout the mid-twentieth century. Initiatives underpinned by an ethics of eliminating particular life-forms included...
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Circuit Breakers and Biopolitical Strategies
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the problematics of this topological structure (Derrida 1992 , 1995 ; Baudrillard 2009 , 2012 ; Deleuze 1992 , 1995 ). An early use of the word network , in the sense delineated in this section, can be traced back to the mid-twentieth century. Describing the topographical features of transportation...
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Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... As Yuriko Furuhata ( 2022 : 138) argues, “Security cameras and networked computing became atmospheric and climatic in the sense of being pervasive, invisible, and environmentally diffuse. These discrete networks of climatic media quietly spread through urban space in the mid-twentieth century and have...
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