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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ( Gelassenheit ) beyond biotechnoeconomic nihilism. The conclusion of the article, therefore, shows how Žižek imagines that the pandemic presents humanity with an existential choice about the way we organize social life. This choice is between the biopolitical domination of Chinese authoritarianism that seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
.... Following this discussion at the level of the narrative, we discuss the film in the context of what Deleuze conceptualized as “time-images.” Our point here is that with the The Hurt Locker we are within “the cinema of the seer,” within a nihilistic portrayal of nihilism from inside, on the basis of highly...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 March 2005
... raises the prospect not merely of a nihilism with regard to defense – as seen in some Nordic countries before the Second World War – but also a nihilism of public space with the city as its epicenter, it might be appropriate to analyze once again the historic development of armed forces that has...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... not believing in Christ or Abraham or Muhammad; it is not believing in anything that might concern the Great All. It's not even nihilism; it's sur-nihilism, as surrealism is to realism. And I think the relationship between celebrity and celebration is linked to this too. We cannot even believe in a genius...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 303–321.
Published: 01 November 2020
... nihilism on a global scale is not mere conservative (or mere conservative-revolutionary) nostalgia over the loss of meaning for the nation-state. Although the formal crisis of modern mass societies is seen chiefly by some, especially those on the political right, in terms of the erosion of territorially...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of climate change from “moving beyond a vague sense of loss” to concerted and sustained action (166). Alongside the protectionism of “aggressive nihilism” (164), Connolly diagnoses the subtler but more pervasive problem of “passive nihilism” (165) as stemming from residual attachment to “sociocentrism...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 203–222.
Published: 01 July 2007
... that acquires its status by normalizing disbelief in the historical and cultural tradition. Its total disbelief originates in a profound fatalism that the world cannot be changed in any way. The basic cultural position of cynicism, therefore, is to disbelieve all values (nihilism) and view the world with scorn...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... politics of revolutionary nihilism, which seek to destroy in order to re-create, and Richter's (2000) view that there is no stable subject in Benjamin's autobiographical texts, such as Moscow Diary (1986), but only ever a self permanently in the process of becoming through the microscopic/macroscopic...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... opposition to the electron microscope is mere material for its growth. There may be difficulties using a beam of accelerated electrons and problems with this source of illumination, but nothing is questionable about wavelengths and electrons (in this lies the sources of its nihilism) as what intangible...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2020
... .” European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie 43 , no. 2 : 190 – 216 . Woodward Ashley . 2009 . Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo . Aurora, CO : Davies Group . 10 These may be summed up as the schools of linguistic thought initiated...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... there is no horizon, it becomes impossible to think about the evolution of the present, and nihilism becomes all the rage. Enter the tyranny of a moment, a kind of funereal instant, where everything and nothing happens now , because there is no coherent sign system to order thought. Without a symbolic system, what...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
...), Sloterdijk adopts an affirmative approach (Nietzsche). He turned his back on reactive nihilism and its implied cynicism earlier in Critique of Cynical Reason (1987; first published in German: 1983). This shift from cynicism to “kynicism” rehabilitated the hero of antiphilosophy and cosmopolitism Diogenes...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
...) in The Birth of Tragedy , and around which all of his subsequent work circles and returns: the need to transform and to transcend the rationalism and nihilism of modern civilization by relocating the primordial, mythological, and political-anthropological substratum of a human will to power, the source...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 183–200.
Published: 01 July 2008
... act of nihilism. The objective to destroy the Western world is, by definition, irrational and nihilistic for the dominant order, which is based on the fostering and regulation of life and which holds peace to be its final aspiration ( Foucault 2003: 241–3 ; Reid 2004: 65 ). Several objections can...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in a premodern way (1987b: 59ff.). However, the unbridled exploration of the “pure Outside” (1999a: 932ff.) is unavoidably followed by a “total dizziness” and a withdrawing into “Ptolemaic disarmament.” This second moment of critique is expressed in a “tired” nihilism which has abandoned all faith...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
... its rosy rhetoric of presence and interpenetration, can Cage's indifference really be distinguished from the affirmation of Nietzsche's Übermensch (over-man), so often plagued by accusations of brutishness and “inhumanity”? Lyotard spoke of “the extreme nihilism lurking in Buddhism” ( 1976 [1973...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
...-horizon. As Land notes, “it grows only to grow . . . it appeals to nothing beyond itself.” It evolves. It exhausts. It mutates. We reject Land's mad descent into libertarian nihilism and his cold embrace of capitalism's auto-destructive feedback loops. However, he is correct in his observation...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... political action to address this situation. We should, however, also be attentive to the political nihilism called forth by geological durations, where mass extinction events are not full stops but produce the conditions for the next wave of evolutionary activity. In these terms, two centuries...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 173–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the affective spectrums of capitalist realism, Berardi explains that the seeming invincibility of financialized capitalism and its call to each economic actor to compete to embrace their potential within it induces a widespread though diversely manifested nihilism. For many, this nihilism takes the form...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
... position. Stiegler's late work focuses on the exhaustive potential in what I am calling objectivizing technologies, insofar as they proletarianize psychic individuation and potentially lead to what he calls the Entropocene—human extinction as unthinking, the “fulfilment of nihilism” (Stiegler 2018 : 81–84...
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