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Why Look at Toy Animals?: Play, Protopolitics, and the Postnatural

Seth Giddings
Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-10969214
Published: 01 March 2024
.... The child's toy and media environment is playfully zoomorphic, populated with artificial animals, from toys and stories to virtual pets and video-game characters, a new simulacral and postnatural trajectory in the descendance of the artificial animal and its playful and play-like behaviors. References...
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Figure 6 Shafic Abboud, Enfantine (Child's Play) (1964). Oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm. Courtesy of Sursock Museum.

Shafic Abboud, Enfantine ( Child's Play ) (1964). Oil on canvas, 100 × 10...

in All National History Is Grotesquely Broken > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 6 Shafic Abboud, Enfantine ( Child's Play ) (1964). Oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm. Courtesy of Sursock Museum. More
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Between War and Play

James Ash
Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 495–497.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-1722181
Published: 01 November 2012
.... The book then moves on to examine the relationship between video game theory and practice, arguing that one should pay attention to the specific materialities involved in video game play. Chapter 3 examines how space is constructed as a form of logistics in flight simulators. Following this discussion...
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Figures 9 and 10. Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays out before an impassive audience.

Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays ou...

in The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 July 2020
Figures 9 and 10 Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays out before an impassive audience. More
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Figures 9 and 10. Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays out before an impassive audience.

Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays ou...

in The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 July 2020
Figures 9 and 10 Screenshots from a suicide show. The poignant power of the gesture plays out before an impassive audience. More
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Figure 2 Actress Hillary Swank playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce, 1999).

Actress Hillary Swank playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimbe...

in Trans Failure: Transformative Joy in Consumer Culture > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2 Actress Hillary Swank playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce, 1999). More
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Teh Internet Is Serious Business: On the Deep Vernacular Web and Its Discontents

Daniël de Zeeuw, Marc Tuters
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 214–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233406
Published: 01 July 2020
... for Sutton-Smith, play is fundamentally ambiguous. As he writes, “A playful nip is not only a bite, it is also not not a bite” (1), which is to say that play contains the capacity for radical dialectical hermeneutics as well as for the innate threat of violence. ...
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Dromospheric Generation: The Things That We Have Learned Are No Longer Enough

Felicity J. Colman
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895807
Published: 01 July 2015
... technologies, in particular focusing on the digital child (“digi-child”) as the model information worker whose operational skills of “transmission” through game play are producing the material grounds of the future by transmitting energy in the dromoeconomy. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...
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Militant Ethics: Daniel Schmid’s Film Adaptation of Fassbinder’s Garbage, the City, and Death

Angelos Koutsourakis
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8593494
Published: 01 November 2020
...Angelos Koutsourakis The publication of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod ( Garbage, the City, and Death ; 1976) constitutes one of the major scandals in German cultural history. The play was accused of being anti-Semitic, because one of its key characters, a real...
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Trans Failure: Transformative Joy in Consumer Culture

Ace Lehner
Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 95–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-9516968
Published: 01 March 2022
...Figure 2 Actress Hillary Swank playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce, 1999). ...
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Gam3r 7H30RY

McKenzie Wark
Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 213–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/174321906778054600
Published: 01 July 2006
... distinct in the first place. The rise of the computer game as an emergent cultural form calls for an approach to cultural theory that might emerge organically out of the experience of game play. In an era in which many aspects of everyday life seem increasingly game-like, one might well ask what relation...
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Childhood’s End (or, We Have Never Been Modern, Except in Minecraft)

Bart Simon, Darren Wershler
Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 289–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7093310
Published: 01 November 2018
...Bart Simon; Darren Wershler This article considers Minecraft , one of the most widely played and popular video games of all time, with over 100 million copies sold. Minecraft is an open-ended strategy game about material logistics, governance, and world building. It is also about a nostalgic...
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The Aesthetics of Exodus: Virno and Lyotard on Art, Timbre, and the General Intellect

Derek R. Ford
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233434
Published: 01 July 2020
...Derek R. Ford While the general intellect continues to provide a rich resource for understanding post-Fordism and for theorizing resistance, there remains a neglected aesthetic dimension to the general intellect and the role that art can play in resistance based on it. This article develops...
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Playgrounds and Bombsites: Postwar Britain's Ruined Landscapes

Ben Highmore
Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2347009
Published: 01 November 2013
.... The bombsite–demolition site as an accidental or purposeful playground for children added to the vacillating meanings of these ruined landscapes, as they signaled both the destructive power of modern industrial violence and the resilient and resourceful power of children and play to reconstitute and repair...
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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture

Kieran Keohane
Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/174321905778054728
Published: 01 November 2005
... of the ongoing Tribunal of Inquiry into Payments to Politicians in Ireland shows how tribunals are theaters in which the politician appears as a recurrence of a Trickster archetype adept at negotiating and playing this liminal and changing context. Tribunals struggle not so much to eradicate and replace...
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Luck, Power, Corruption, Democracy? Judging Arts Prizes

John Street
Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 215–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/174321905778054791
Published: 01 July 2005
... and other factors play their part. This conclusion is reached through the detailed study of three UK arts prizes. © BERG 2005 PRINTED IN THE UK 2005 Reporting on the dinner given for the winner of the UK's Booker Prize for literature, the journalist David Robson wrote: Of course, the whole thing...
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(THE War On) Terrorism: Destruction, Collapse, Mixture, Re-Enforcement, Construction

Leonie Ansems De Vries
Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 183–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174308X310893
Published: 01 July 2008
... – that prevent the death of either one – present a conflict that is of, against, within, and eluding the grasp of the dominant order in a continuous play of antagonism, destruction, mixture, tension, translation, and fissure. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 References Al-Azm Sadik, J. 2004a...
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“As Seen on Tv.” The Celebrity Expert: How Taste Is Shaped by Lifestyle Media

Helen Powell, Sylvie Prasad
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 111–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174310X12549254318908
Published: 01 March 2010
... not necessarily coincide. The social anxieties that arise as a con sequence sees the domination of the market as an economic and cultural space in which such anxieties are increasingly played out. This allows questions to be posed that consider the proliferation of the celebrity expert, their role as tastemakers...
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Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres at Risk Ally with Public Spheres Yet to Be Achieved?

Michael M.J Fischer
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174309X388464
Published: 01 March 2009
...: cultural politics ; cultural media histories ; the emotional excess ( jouissance, petit à ) of cultural politics; and the deep play mode of aesthetic judgement formed between the practical and ethical, between political economy and expressive art (including political drama), and between individual self...
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CONSIGNING BADIOU TO THE Past: THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA AND Philosophy’s GENDERED THOUGHT OF THE ENDLESS ARCHIVE

Sas Mays
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 73–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174309X388482
Published: 01 March 2009
...Sas Mays The overall remit of this article concerns a philosophical contextualization of Badiou’s antipathy toward the capitalist status quo, as it is played out in the denigration of the “encyclopaedia.” The article argues that this object marks an extension of the phonocentric idealism of Western...
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