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Program Text, Programming Style, Programmer Labor: Some Further Comments on Comments
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 372–394.
Published: 01 November 2018
... if one knows where to look. That feature is the comment: natural-language text within a computer program that is written exclusively for human readers of the program and is separated from executable code, though it stands alongside it. At their most interesting, in patterns of use to which a managerial...
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Virus Is a Language: COVID-19 and the New Abnormal
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... language. It is a language used across all the natural domains where cybernetics rule, from the not-alive/not-dead of biological beasties such as the fearsome SARS-CoV-2, to the bodies of the bats and humans it infects. It defines the techno-organic systems of high-tech medical research that fights COVID...
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Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Language, and Commodification as Culture
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2017
... oddly underdeveloped” (2010: 1). Any critical understanding of knowledge’s visual mediation consequently must confront its play between familiar binaries, image vs. text, visual representation vs. “logo-centric and empiricist (statistical) biases,” natural language vs. graphical description, and so...
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CAN A PLACE Think? ON ADAM Sharr’s HEIDEGGER’S HUT
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
... between thinking and the poetic, the nature of language, the earth, tradition, and the ethics and sociality of the thinker. However, its overall project could tentatively be summed up as a thinker’s attempt to disengage with modes of thought overdetermined by Western philosophical tradition, doing so...
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On Multitude and Beyond: An Interview with Paolo Virno
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 206–225.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Scotus, about the common nature that precedes and makes individuation possible, I think about the faculty of language. I think about the completely human capacity of being able to abstract, to imagine, to think through words. Thoughts as verbal thoughts, et cetera. A whole set of faculties...
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No More Models: Baudrillard's Critique of Communication
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 409–430.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Six factors and functions (after Jakobson). Figure 1. Six factors and functions (after Jakobson). Jakobson presents six constitutive features of a speech event to which correspond six functions of language. The components of the model of communication determine or direct the distribution...
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Do You Hear the People's Nonsense?: Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., clear objectives, or prominent spokespeople, it still elicited a swift response from the government, as the zero-COVID policy was lifted. The critical consensus on this intermedia video is that Yang ironically dissects the corrupted, meaningless, and non-sensical nature of political language...
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On Existence, Poetic Revealing, and the Work of Art: Interview with Mehdi Saadeti
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 November 2020
... art can reveal, limits related to the nature of being itself, Saadeti’s Heideggerian take on his own work and “great art” in general speaks to the role of art in enabling us to make sense and create meaning in a state that might otherwise seem wracked by the profound anxiety brought about...
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The Redemption of the Real
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... Like Heidegger (who spoke about the necessity of the return to Being), Schmitt (who wanted to create a political theology of decision-ism), and Jünger (who sought to demolish the everyday in favor of a natural or primal order), Benjamin's thesis revolved around the adoption of a Nietzschean thesis...
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Posthumous Sound and the General Imagination
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... reacting to the world into imagining a new world and the means to construct it: to make a future different from the past or present. It is in the nature of capital to enclose every commons, to transform it into resource, to control and exploit it. 5 Language is not immune: the capture of the word...
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Towards an Ontology of Fetishes: An Interview with Alphonso Lingis
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 March 2009
... articles on topics involving language and community, eroticism, and the emotions in scholarly journals, and as a global philosopher at large, Lingis’s works are currently influencing debates within the cultural politics of desire, the ethics of respect, and the moral philosophy of responsibility or our...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., one group of Austrian School economists associated with F. A. Hayek took a cultural turn. Performing their own critique of “economism,” they perceived human nature as rooted primarily in culture, adaptable over time through social learning and selective evolution. The other group of Austrian...
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Organized Autonomous Networks
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 269–286.
Published: 01 November 2010
... worlds, whose language is peppered with terms like “networking,” “decentralizing,” “horizontalizing,” “interconnecting,” “outsourcing,” and “crowdsourcing.” As though networking could itself provide synergies that were certain to increase profits and reduce costs. There is, however, a great...
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Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
... excludes from the circuit of communication any mediation between human, natural, and technological worlds. That nature has no spoken language doesn’t stop her screaming her messages to us, and does not absolve us from listening. Secondly, the description of language as the privileged instrument...
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Comparing the Cultural Meanings of Power
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 July 2007
... an admirable job in showing why methodological standardization deprives politics of the political. Rather than aiming to “discipline” the contentious and conflictual nature of politics by scientific methods, cultural analysis is presented as a more realistic research strategy because it is better attuned...
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The Kultur of Cultural Techniques: Conceptual Inertia and the Parasitic Materialities of Ontologization
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in pretypographic times was, somehow, a less technological, and thus more “natural,” affair. One of the lasting achievements of Kittler was to unravel the discursive, administrative, educational, and technical labor that went into “naturalizing” the processing of language in allegedly pretechnical times. Kittler...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Shigehiko Hasumi; Chris Turner RB: That’s clearly the case. I said so at the beginning. I said it briefly but firmly. There’s no claim to . . . SH: Your intention’s clear when you write of the dream: “to know a foreign (alien) language and yet not to understand it: to perceive...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
... speak Arabic, a Semitic language, like Hebrew, not Farsi, an Indo-European language. We are Shiite Muslims, as most Iranians (and Iraqis) are. The transition from Iran to London was infinitely more difficult than that from London to New York. The first migration from Iran still has aftershocks. Looking...
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The Aesthetics of Exodus: Virno and Lyotard on Art, Timbre, and the General Intellect
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Materialism 15 , no. 3 : 3 – 8 . Virno Paolo . 2015 . When the Word Becomes Flesh: Language and Human Nature . Translated by Mecchia Giuseppina . South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e) . Williams James . 2000 . Lyotard and the Political . New York : Routledge . © 2020...
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The Great City Is Fragile: Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
... is distinctive, it seems to me, is the nature and quality of what I would call Fang Fang's social disposition. Fang Fang is no social analyst. But her imagination and her spirit are profoundly social; she is a social documentarist, with a remarkable capacity for both openness and attentiveness. “I provide...
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