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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 331–338.
Published: 01 November 2005
...John Armitage Virilio's City of Panic consequently denotes something of a decisive moment in how the metropolis may be perceived, and it is probable that it will have numerous effects in a diversity of fields. Over and above being a contribution to the mounting realization that is enlightening...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Toby Miller This essay examines risk society and moral panic as tools for analyzing the irrationality of the contemporary US, and applies them to the construction of young people as a social problem. Although today’s risk society and moral panic are closely tied to the current economic crisis, I...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Paul Virilio © BERG 2005 PRINTED IN THE UK 2005 It seems that the period of the Cold War, with its sinister threats of the annihilation of cities, has given way to a time of cold panic at a mass terrorism that may well inflict disasters similar to those that occurred in the old forms...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 353–364.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Nigel Thrift This article is a synoptic review of the recent work of Paul Virilio, conducted through the book, City of Panic . I point to the problems with the increasingly apocalyptic content and tone of Virilio's work on modernity by referring to recent social science research on the city...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 November 2005
... citizens by spreading fear and panic. The etymology of the word “panic,” from the Greek god Pan, suggests a fear that disquiets people's minds and prevents them from thinking clearly. This panic and synchronization of emotions, Virilio shows in his third essay, “Kriegstrasse,” in fact replaces war...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... values and finishes on a disturbing note: “the state of fear,” in collusion with our co-opted individual consciences, increases and strengthens its grip in a culture predicated on collective panic, the politics of unfreedom, and the desire for safety. In our understanding and that of our contributors...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... reality has hijacked democracy in a mediatized, claustrophobic world in which we all see the same images at the same time on the screens that have become our ubiquitous horizon and accordingly feel the same emotions – instantly, and with panic dominant among them. With close to 300,000 dead...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to feed on complacency and disinformation as panic ensued, lives were lost, and the economy wrecked? How did an inanimate, spectral sequence of genetic code become the most powerful agent (so far) of global, cultural, and political disaster in the twenty-first century? Unable to understand the nature...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... there are a lot of bikers around here dying in speeding accidents…no one talks about it for fear of inciting panic, so as not to turn it into an attraction. Well, people rush to see it anyway. It's become a metaphor, a symbol, a monument. SG: The finitude of the world, the foreclosed world, is slamming up...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... Clint Eastwood, 1997) might serve as a less intense but no less material example). The prospect of Blizzard, the production studio that makes World of Warcraft , leaving Irvine, California, lacks the geo-cultural circumstances that helped give rise to the panic around the removal of The Hobbit from...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 July 2019
... . Virilio Paul . 2003a . Art and Fear . London : Continuum . Virilio Paul . 2003b . Unknown Quantity . London : Thames and Hudson . Virilio Paul . 2005a . City of Panic . Oxford : Berg . Virilio Paul . 2005b . “ Democracy of Emotion .” Cultural Politics 1...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 413–415.
Published: 01 November 2018
... is divided into seven chapters, bookended by an introduction that situates the project and outlines the book’s aim to “explore how experiences of austerity become interpreted through long-held prejudices, resentments, moral panics, cultural memories and received ideas which have such a strong cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2005
... abuse imagery. Indeed, for him, the latter is an even worse symbolic dishonor than 9/11 since the US wreaked this ignominy on itself in the form of “shame and bad conscience.” Alternatively, in “Cold Panic,” Paul Virilio contends that the Cold War threat to obliterate the modern metropolis has been...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to soon disappear and that he had it under total control—both false, as medical authorities and informed media commentators reported daily. As deaths and panic from the virus expanded in the United States by March 2020, Trump renamed the COVID-19 virus “the China virus...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and entered the sick role, now there is active pressure on the individual to make lifestyle changes, since we are all more or less at risk (while, as Ventura points out, the cultural environment produced by corporations acts in the opposite direction, as in the case of the obesity moral panic—to turn us...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
...: the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and various financial panics and meltdowns. Indeed, one of Virilio's (1995) consistent messages across the last two decades has been that financial, rather than nuclear, meltdown now fuels our fears: “Watch out...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and relatively safe has paradoxically never been more an object of phobia and panic. According to food-fear historian Madeleine Ferrières (2006) , anxiety over the food supply in previous centuries concerned its abundance or quantity, not its quality. The disproportion of concern for sanitary precautions...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that threatened to destroy it altogether. The case attracted worldwide attention, not surprisingly as it brought together celebrity culture and a moral panic. In the demonology of the popular press, the “pedophile” has been one of the most prominent and consistently present folk devils. 5 The label “pedophile...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 156–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
...” ( Murray 2015 : 490). These arguments challenge the “moral panic” about smartphone photography and social media, in which the selfie is a gendered phenomenon that reflects a reductive form of narcissism (though narcissism here means little more than self-absorption). We agree that the moral panic...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 March 2007
...). As I suggested earlier, it is important to know that there is a detailed Australian context for all this which includes the post-9/11 “War on Terror,” the Bali bombings, the 2001 so-called refugee crisis, 3 as well as earlier moral panics over urban law-and-order issues involving migrant communities...
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