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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 331–338.
Published: 01 November 2005
... mentioning. Paul Virilio, “The Accident in Time,” City of Panic: Elsewhere Begins Here (2005) ALPHA-60 (A disembodied supercomputer): Your name is written “Ivan Johnson,” but it is pronounced “Lemmy Caution,” Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville...
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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
... 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 of international conflict. Between the battlefield of the military campaigns of yesteryear and the anti-city strategy of the present age, postmodern war has...
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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
... the menace of “WMDs,” Virilio declares that “weapons of mass communication” (p. 43) or “WMC” are far more dangerous than “weapons of mass destruction.” The media in the service of those in power manipulate ordinary citizens by spreading fear and panic. The etymology of the word “panic,” from the Greek god...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ), who developed ideas of social and cultural contagion and approaches to understanding the unreason of collective behavior. Quite apart from leaving the minority of people it infects struggling to breathe, the coronavirus, as Levy tells us, is a highly contagious “panic virus” that we must come to terms...
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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
... War Z .” US Naval War College , Newport, RI , December 7 . www.youtube.com/watch?v = -nGG5E04cog . Brooks Max . 2020a . “ ‘All of This Panic Could Have Been Prevented’: Author Max Brooks on COVID-19 .” Interview by Gross Terry . Fresh Air , March 24 . www.npr.org/2020/03/24...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... you are occupied, you experience a phenomenon that psychologists and psychoanalysts call “derealization,” a kind of panic event. There is a panic of occupation, a kind of fear comparable to anguish. Not solely physical fear, but anguished fear. And today, reality occupies us and preoccupies us by its...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... was called, whereupon Warner Bros. and, notably, Peter Jackson threatened to pull production out of the country. This sent the conservative New Zealand government into a panic; New Zealand's tourist industry is tightly tied to its relation to the film version of LOTR and the Middle-earth brand. Street...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 July 2019
... ) is an extreme sense of loss and negativity; of catastrophe, deception, and dread; of living at a forbiddingly pivotal time for the future of a humanity beset on all sides by the unknown, by panic, by accidents, and by disasters ( Featherstone 2015 ; McCaffrey 2015 ). This sense developed originally out...
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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 (2024) 20 (2): 370–372.
Published: 01 July 2024
... . Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety, and Moral Panic in South Africa . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Nuttall Sarah , and Mbembe Achille , eds. 2008 . Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . van Staden Cobus . 2020 . “ We Are All...
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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
...-19 in the schools, followed by quarantines and widespread panic and anxiety as individuals and regions were forced to decide how to protect their children as the president ranted until the end about opening the schools, leading to the slaughter of innocents and leaving the Biden administration...
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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
... running at hyperspeed. Virilio argues that financial panics have replaced the nuclear-fueled panics of yesteryear. He suggests that of all the risks that assail us—terrorist attack, environmental ruin, and so forth—we are particularly threatened by “a tyrannical political economics” ( 2012c: 62 ). While...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... forms of intoxication , food poisoning and “brainwashing”? A food supply that has never been more closely tracked, strictly regulated, and relatively safe has paradoxically never been more an object of phobia and panic. According to food-fear historian Madeleine Ferrières (2006) , anxiety over...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . Campbell C. (ed.) 1997 . International Media Liability: Civil Liability in the Information Age . Chichester : John Wiley and Sons . Cohen S. 1971 . Folk Devils and Moral Panics . London : Paladin . Cohen S. Young J. (eds.) 1973 . The Manufacture of News: Deviance...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 156–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
... both figures of narcissism discussed above, the intertwined pairing of openness and numbness. Numbness is not always a mindless or vapid form of escapism or self-centeredness that should be the cause of moral panic. It can reveal nuanced and subtle ways of attending to a political aesthetics...
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