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The Negative Abyss: Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Mark Featherstone This article explores what one might call the dystopia of contemporary screen-based culture through a discussion of the work of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler. Centrally, it explains that the screen might be seen as a negative abyss, where absolute surface creates the effect...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and ethical concern in our technoscientific societies, in particular the function of the image and the screen in cultures of surveillance and “mug shot” profiling, in the manipulation and control of public taste and opinion, in the collapse of subjectivity face-to-face with the “negative abyss” of the screen...
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Remembering Paul Virilio
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 July 2019
... . Featherstone Mark . 2015 . “ The Negative Abyss: Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler .” Cultural Politics 11 , no. 2 : 210 – 21 . Federici Silvia Caffentzis George . 1987 . “ A Review Play on Paul Virilio/Sylvere Lotringer, Pure War .” Social Text , no. 17 : 97 – 105...
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The Melancholic Genius without Melancholia of Jean-Luc Nancy; or, Toward a Reparative Genius
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 104–114.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., and love as its horizon. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 melancholy genius reparative Epimetheus Witz fragment This short essay is a reflection on the seeming absence of negative affects, particularly melancholy, in Jean-Luc Nancy...
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Opening Up
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... fulfillments by a void or an abyss he most famously develops via analysis of the Kantian sublime. 8 The sublime, in Lyotard's hands, puts the entire aesthetic realm in touch with a radically nondialectizable negativity that, in his view, is what calls for thought by keeping events coming, always in a sense...
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The Utopianism of Luxury
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
... sculpture, this moment is a moment of struggle that represents the condition of life itself balanced over the abyss of nothingness. Wiesing explains that it is possible to find similar moments of clarity, in which the human becomes aware of their own humanity, in Martin Heidegger (anxiety, dread) and Ernst...
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“Even the Rats Don't Come Here”: The Eastern European Roma in Contemporary Paris
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... conditioned by proximity, the inability of humans to swallow the horror of existence in Cioran's city is exacerbated by a pathology of space, which turns off the impossibility of ever escaping the abyss of the self in the image of the other who is always too close. Although the existentialists Sartre...
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Introduction to Bernard Stiegler, “The National Front and Ultraliberalism” (Extract from Pharmacologie du Front National , 2013)
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 119–129.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the conjunction of desire and knowledge, and the irreducibility of the tendency for these to be undermined by what he will call the negative pharmacological side of technics. In Pharmacologie du Front national , he draws attention to a third dimension of the pharmakon : its tendency to lead to the designation...
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The Unbroken Spell: Some Comments on Ontology
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., its existence as techne¯ . It incurs the tiny expenditure of a few grams, opening a place, spacing an exposition. This exposition isn't the opposite of foundation, but rather it constitutes its corporeal truth. The “absence of foundation” shouldn't be understood as a gulf or abyss but as a local...
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Herbert Marcuse and the Promesse Du Bonheur : Politics and Literature in Dark Times
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., “The nightmare is that [the Nazis] have shown . . . what man is capable of” ( [1945] 2007 : 91). She reiterates this in a review of Hermann Broch’s collection of poems The Death Vigil (1945). Broch’s writing, she says, in a style resembling a Homeric hymn, spans the abyss between “the no longer and the not yet...
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Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s Jovial Modernity
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and German idealism (mainly Schelling and Hufeland), Sloterdijk describes transitive relations between selves, rather than reflexive relations of the self. Under the banner of a “negative gynecology” he deals with the metaphysical, mystical, psychoanalytic, and messianic-evangelistic ways of thinking...
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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
... followers to be led into the abyss ( Kavanagh and O'Leary 2004 ). However, despite our fears we know that the world is always changing and we also know that precluding the possibility of change suggests an equally unacceptable utopian stasis. For the journey to the abyss is also choreographed...
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The Hurt Locker : Cinematic Addiction, “Critique,” And the War on Terror
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
... to passive nihilism (soma). Thus, on the one hand, the film seems to lament the loss of passion and courage, passing a negative judgment on the passive nihilism of contemporary culture. Yet, on the other hand, it elevates James's radical nihilism to the level of an alternative. In other words, the logic...
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Objective Breathing: Peter Sloterdijk's Atmospheric Mediation
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and terrestrial globalization from its second volume. The final section of this paper will apply Sloterdijk's nobjective theory of “negative gynecology” from Bubbles , to argue that questioning objective logic may allow us to think, in the airborne era, the difference inherent to General Immunology, a difference...
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A Predictably Obedient Riot: Postpolitics, Consumer Culture, and the English Riots of 2011
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of culture and politics at the end of history. Consumer culture's libidinal drive is activated as a reaction to the primal fear of staring down this dark abyss of total negativity: no past, no future, no narrative, the lack of everything that has been cancelled by the omnipotent ideological power of postwar...
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“There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Capitalizes on Democracy , Ithaca & London : Cornell University Press . Derrida J. 1987 . “ How to Avoid Speaking: Denials .” Trans. Friden K. . In Budick S. Iser W. (eds.), Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory . Stanford...
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Playgrounds and Bombsites: Postwar Britain's Ruined Landscapes
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
Published: 01 November 2013
...: “We shall all go down and down into catastrophe and the abyss. We must snatch what good we can on the way” (1958: 70; see Wiener 1954 : 40). Violence and aggression may well be part of nature: our most cherished institutions of civilization might crumble into dust and be replaced by a rapacious crop...
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The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... each other across a real-time physical abyss. My focus is the recently emerged ritual of the so-called suicide show, or tiaolou xiu 跳楼秀, in which aggrieved precarious workers, mostly employed in the construction industry, threaten to jump from a high-rise building—sometimes one they have built...
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Going West: Migration and the Post-Communist World in Recent European Film
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
... .” The Guardian , 8 July. Žižek Slavoj . 1989 . The Sublime Object of Ideology . London : Verso . —— 1993 . Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology . Durham : Duke University Press . —— 1997 . The Plague of Fantasies . London : Verso . —— 2001a . Enjoy...
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Organized Autonomous Networks
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 269–286.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., they unload the negative externalities on to the weak points of the network, while managing at the same time to accumulate even greater power. One has only to think of the control systems that are being developed thanks to credit/debit cards, smartphones, GPS terminals, etc. With any advanced portable...
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