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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 March 2005
... but also, most importantly, human society, with the obvious dangers not merely of politicide ( Kimmerling 2003 ) but of genuine genocide . In a fateful sign of the panic thus engendered, in the USA we are currently seeing an institutional conflict in which the Department of State, marginalized...
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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 (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
... arrangements that we introduce the concept of viral culture to summarize what is occurring. But if we can refer to Tarde and Le Bon to understand the contagious nature of the corona-panic-virus, Levy turns to the work of Jacques Lacan ( 2007 ) to explain how the virus has wrecked our sense of “normality...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... landscapes to end in a limbo of mud that answers perfectly to the kind of “expressionism” Virilio describes here. Such images were relayed on a loop, a panic replay, reminiscent of the WTC sequence that has never stopped popping up since that terrorist attack – though with much greater restraint...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the COVID-19 disease) with zombies. For a start, both zombies and virus are the living dead, in the sense that they acquire vitality only after they find and infect a host (Villarreal 2008 ). First encounters are marked by denial and complacency, which can rapidly escalate into panic and fear of the other...
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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
... : Verso . Virilio Paul . 2002 . Ground Zero . London : Verso . 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...
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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
...Nicky Falkof References Falkof Nicky . 2022 . 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...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2005
... 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 substituted by fright in the face of a mass terror campaign that can produce tragedies resembling previous forms...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... 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” and used the crisis to deflect blame on China...
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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
... 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 the food supply in previous centuries concerned its abundance or quantity, not its...
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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
..., for instance, if one asks the people taking them, selfies are characterized “as a radical act of political empowerment” ( 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...
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