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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 458–471.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and racism that overshadowed documenta fifteen , which stands as the most international and racially diverse edition of the exhibition in its history. Darmawan articulates the necessity of an “alternative currency,” based on ruangrupa's adherence to the fundamental value of friendship, as a counter...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 202–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
... an examination of the cultural politics of current discussions of uninhabitability in the Anthropocene, this article argues against the logic of un/inhabitability—demonstrating its necessity to imagine itself against a subhuman other that was embodied, at least in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the medial willingness to perceive or “figure” the air becomes a critical, everyday necessity. When Sloterdijk attributes the spread of “affective epidemics” to mass-media technologies, he draws attention to how airborne transmission is a symptom of breathing the same air, which, by affecting and altering...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Taking issue with many official accounts, the essay traces the origins of the German autobahn back to the Battle of Verdun (1916). The military necessity to organize rigidly enforced, intersection-free two-way traffic becomes the model for the construction...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
... recent publishing and public activities proceed from his account of the necessity to invent a viable cultural program for inter-generational reengagement with the technical milieu beyond the widespread disenchantment with social and political processes. 2. Translator's note: In the English...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the promise that everyone will win, uses losses to reconfirm the necessity of strengthening the system so that everyone will win, and perpetually displaces the thieves of enjoyment throughout the system as warnings, exceptions, and contingencies. In addition to relying on the fantasy of free trade, neoliberal...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
... is an object, a commodity. In this respect, the luxurious enables us to experience our humanity and represents our existential freedom from the nightmare of necessity, through the extreme, excessive, and transgressive commodity form. There is no doubt that the first part of Wiesing’s book develops...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in the “phenomena” of the mystery of humanly experienced reality at the same time that they see the disturbing necessities of our technological situation. In sum, Van Vleet’s book has everything a good introductory exposition of Ellul needs—solid scholarship of the entire major corpus, clarity and accuracy...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... its dependence on ideas of need and necessity, which tends to confine luxury to an abstract space of excessive quantity, and instead to develop an understanding of the human or more precisely nonhuman quality of the luxurious. However, in order to reach this state and suggest a theory of the quality...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and geographically different creeds, “and just as many different religious books,” which “can therefore contain nothing but the vehicle of religion, what is contingent” (Kant 1996a: 336) . While religion is thus eternally inscribed in transcendental necessity, creeds are inscribed in spatiotemporally contingent...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and it raises awareness of historical links such as, to name but one, that between Phileas Fogg and US President George W. Bush. Where it leaves the reader wanting is in the realm of cultural politics. Sloterdijk assumes the necessities of inclusion and exclusion, but does not explain the cultural political...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that preserve the ascetics of author production in order to preserve the necessity of affiliation upon which the power of the relationship between institutions, knowledge, and governing depends ( Nickel 2011 ). This “affiliation function” further embeds Foucault's “author function” ( 1998 [1969...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to figure how a robot can be good for them. “Here, AIBO…offers an alternative, one that sidesteps the necessity of death.…With robot pets, children can give enough to feel attached, but then they can turn away” (60). Similarly, companionship and caretaking have been transmogrified by the use of robots...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 23–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and luxury. La Grande Révolution is an extreme form of fashion; terror, itself, submits to aesthetic dictates.—Trans. 4 Under these circumstances it becomes increasingly difficult to identify the exact boundary between nature and culture, necessity and artifice. Bertuch is on his way...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... immediate necessity (for example, education) are similarly worn out by laboring in a situation in which the apparent significance of their work has been undermined by the pandemic's destruction of a collective, social sense of the future. In this respect, education is a particularly good example, since...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 412–416.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to the prison-house of self-consuming silence or, in extreme cases, toss him or her into the abyss of suicidal melancholia (35). What is noteworthy here is that melancholia, even while it confronts the modernist subject with the necessity of suicide, embodies a kernel of resistance to societal monopoly...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to myself, Maybe so . But more accurate, I like to think, is that the Starbucks Experience—personal connection—is an affordable necessity. We are all hungry for community. —Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul In his book-length tribute to himself...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 July 2013
... to be envisaged (problematical judgment), as a truth (assertoric), or, lastly, as an inescapable necessity (apodictic judgment)? We are looking here at modalities that affect not the content of the judgment (the relation between the subject and the predicate of the proposition) but its illocutionary position...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 289–304.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., should) be conceptualized as “bound up” with the work of grief; the archival process was far more difficult for company members who had known her for much longer, who developed a stricter and quicker process of sorting the items through the necessity of completing the job at hand. Figure 7 Film...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the essay, I will offer an overview of the debate on post-work to contextualize the necessity of a move toward figuration, and then explore the specific import of the anti-work figures that I have invoked here for the construction of a materialist and feminist public sphere. The refusal of work...
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