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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Mark Featherstone Abstract In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical story of the resurrection...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Rosalind Gill; Shani Orgad Abstract Examining women's magazines and lifestyle coaching, the article explores how positivity imperatives in contemporary culture call forth a happy, confident, hopeful, and vibrant subject during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows how these positivity...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2 “Have you thought how you would like to emerge from the pandemic?,” posted by Gosia Syta on LinkedIn. Photograph courtesy Carolyn Gindein IWOM001 Photography.
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and simulations. The article addresses the data diagrams that describe and predict, advise and control actions during the pandemic. The authors argue that these curves and simulations are also crucial epistemic and aesthetic occurrences that produce the long tale of the epidemic as it pertains to a variety...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Douglas Kellner Abstract This article engages the contemporary crises of health, the economy, and democracy in the United States during the era of Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic. The author begins with a discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump's chaotic and inept responses. The author...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Irving Goh Abstract While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Chris Hables Gray Abstract To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to subsume a human security crisis into the narrative of an eternal Cold War. The third is transmedial , to acquire new political and cultural perspectives on the pandemic through the zombie cinematic genre, including our documentary film, Project Z : The Final Global Event . A zombie inquiry can help us...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
...James Dutton Abstract This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the meaning of the coronavirus pandemic or to resolve our existential condition in the era of COVID-19. Second, our actions do not happen in a normless void. We are valuing beings, and any effort to elucidate cultural relationships and political processes entails evaluation. If this normative aspect...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Kevin Robins Abstract This article explores issues covered in Wuhan Diary , a day-by-day account by the Chinese author Fang Fang of her experiences during the height of the pandemic crisis in the city of Wuhan during the early months of 2020. It seeks to bring out what is distinctive and innovative...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... We do not know if COVID-19 will be or will have been, only that it is now part of the resources out of which any future must be made. The pandemic is an opportunity to imagine the postpandemic culture. It teaches us that imagination, a term largely lost from cultural politics, is potentially...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and purpose are played out. The waves of so-called beach shaming that occurred during the early months of the global coronavirus pandemic have located, yet again, the beach as a key battleground in contemporary cultural politics. The mixture of tortured passivity and muted acceptance among the characters...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
...David Morley Abstract This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the various factors that must be taken into account to explain the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on questions of how virtual and material geographies are enmeshed, paying...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . Means Alexander J. , and Slater Graham B. 2021 . “ Collective Disorientation in the Pandemic Conjuncture .” Cultural Studies 35 , nos. 2–3 : 514 – 22 . Means Alexander J. , Sojot Amy , Ida Yuko , and Sustarcic Manca . 2020 . “ Empire and Education...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
... . Braidotti Rosi . 2013 . The Posthuman . Cambridge : Polity . Brown Gordon . 2020 . Foreword to Tipping Point: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Threatens to Push the World's Poorest to the Brink of Survival , by Ajayi Tomilola , Macintyre James , Meeghan Claire , and Ware Joe...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 252–254.
Published: 01 July 2021
... pandemics, and biopolitics. Besides the author's painful description of his futile pursuit of and experimentation with differing AIDS drugs like AZT and Digitaline, or grim reflections on his perpetually shifting T4 count, it also shares an intimate portrait of his friend Michel Foucault's death from AIDS...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Consider the Get Well card. Sending a card like this to someone convalescing from an injury or, more likely in our pandemic present, a disease, on the face of it does very little for the afflicted party. It's just a gesture. One that says “Hey, I'm here...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that, coming from the outside, distracts the human being from being human” (Stiegler 2020b ). In the time and experience of confinement, the question of how to live after the pandemic has subsided has become a pressing issue. Stiegler asks what can emerge out of despair and “symbolic misery” (the dissociation...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... demonstrate in an analysis of positivity discourses in British media. In the context of a devastating pandemic, hurting to some degree everyone around the world, it is particularly telling that women are instructed to pull themselves up emotionally by their own bootstraps, despite the consistent failure...
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