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The Politics of Transcendence
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Harald Wydra Modern politics dogmatically separates politics from religion, the state from promises of salvation. This article makes a case for the fundamentally political nature of transcendence. It argues that the changing relationships between authority and salvation depend on culturally crafted...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 296–312.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Robert E. D'Souza The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the most recent global art biennale, was launched in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India, in 2012. This essay considers the “biennale effect,” locating it within India's recent history of radical political modernization and in the context of the state's...
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Exhausted Montage: Radical Cinema Post ’68
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Matthew . 2016 . “ The Modern Political Cinema: From Third Cinema to Contemporary Networked Biopolitics .” Film-Philosophy , no. 20 : 303 – 23 . Jameson Fredric . 1992 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jameson...
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A People of Seers: The Political Aesthetics of Postwar Cinema Revisited
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Julian Reid What are the politics of Gilles Deleuze's study of cinematic modernity? In film studies, the discipline that formally assumes cinema as its object, Deleuze's concepts have been used to explore the processes by which national identities have been historically constructed...
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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of globalization. This view is elaborated and modified by an interpretation based on a philosophy of history as recurrence or “metempsychosis...
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Changing Palestine–Israel Ecologies: Narratives of Water, Land, Conflict, and Political Economy, Then and Now, and Life to Come
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Michael M.J. Fischer Three forms of narrative heuristics are identified and explored in the search for political inclusiveness, robustness, and legitimacy: (1) environmental topics: toxics and the need for second-order or reflexive institutions of modernization; water and the need for getting...
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“ALL PROPAGATED WITH THE BEST Intentions”: Greene, THE Us, AND INDOCHINA 1951–1955
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2008
... a political imperative of the absolute deniability of covert actions. It thereby ushered in a specifically modern form of innocence. Greene’s novel is about an early version of that innocence. Modern innocence conceals the “principle of implosion” according to which ferocious opposites reverse into one...
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Political Spirituality: The Devils , Possession, and Truth-Telling
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... By the same token, it becomes possible to distinguish religion and faith. Not all faith is religion and not all religion is faithful. The article draws on Foucault, discussing the possibility of a “political spirituality” outside the religious domain, as a profane, modern political gesture that cannot...
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Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s Jovial Modernity
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Sjoerd Van Tuinen This essay serves as an introduction both to this special issue and to the works of Peter Sloterdijk. It starts out from the opposition between the critical and the affirmative projects in modern philosophy. It is my intent to demonstrate how Sloterdijk displaces this opposition...
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After Englobement: Carl Schmitt, Peter Sloterdijk, and the Rediscovery of the Uncompressible
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 303–321.
Published: 01 November 2020
... amounts to terminal spaceless nihilism on a global scale is not mere conservative (or mere conservative-revolutionary) nostalgia over the loss of meaning for the nation-state. Although the formal crisis of modern mass societies is seen chiefly by some, especially those on the political right, in terms...
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“Even the Rats Don't Come Here”: The Eastern European Roma in Contemporary Paris
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... argue that Sarkozy's neoliberal utopia, which is reflected in attempts to modernize, regenerate, and marketize lost areas of the city, represents a form of posthumanism that we must resist through identification with miserable others, such as the Romanian Roma. In the final section of the article, I...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and stability of its environs. It divides humanity and nature. Ultimately, as critics of political economy from Marx ( 1981 ) to Karl Polanyi ( 2001 ) have demonstrated, in its pursuit of endless accumulation, capitalist modernization threatens to exhaust the land and labor that are the basis of its own...
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Memory Capture from “De-communization” to “Decolonization”: Tarik Cyril Amar on the Russia-Ukraine War, in Conversation with Tania Roy
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 442–456.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Section: Cultural Politics: The Next Twenty Years: Memor y Wars MEMORY CAPTURE from DE-COMMUNIZATION to DECOLONIZATION Tarik Cyril Amar on the Russia-Ukraine War, in Conversation with Tania Roy Tarik Cyril Amar and Tania Roy Abstract German historian of modern Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar positions...
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Search and Destroy: Nancy Spero’s War Series , 1966–70
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 111–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-for-inclusion-at-the-museum-of-modern-art/ . Feigen Richard . 1969 . Dubuffet and Anti-culture . Exhibition catalog . New York : Richard L. Feigen . Frascina Francis . 1999 . Art, Politics, and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America . Manchester, UK : Manchester...
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Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology, and Plastics
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Sy Taffel From the inception of modern, petrochemical-derived synthetic plastics to the contemporary situation in which over 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year, media assemblages and plastics constitute a range of intra-actions that contribute to our understanding of contemporary...
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Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
... work simplifies complex modern society and ends up in an unmediated politics of education. The article expounds thereby the Janus-faced nature of Stiegler's engagements: an excellent philosophical reflection on contemporary technology, on the one hand, a technologically determinist (and rather...
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The History of the Black Box: The Clash of a Thing and Its Concept
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Philipp Von Hilgers The “black box” has become a common term for diverse kinds of opacities of modern society often at odds with values of enlightenment and transparency. Investigating the history of the black box one discovers that at a time when cybernetics was seen as the leading science...
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Farewell to Revolution
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine of 2004); but the work remains political in other ways, as I shall try to explain through several tangential references. The work’s third context, then, is art-historical: the politics of modern art — modernism—and its tangential (or ambivalent) relation to radical social...
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Traveling Spies and Liminal Texts: Cold War Culture in Asian Spy Films
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
... the Cold War now implies that theories used to critique Anglo-American Cold War texts cannot be readily used in relation to their Asian counterparts. Subsequently, Asian spy films cannot be understood so simply. On the one hand, colonial legacies, modern-day political alignments between noncommunist Asia...
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Playgrounds and Bombsites: Postwar Britain's Ruined Landscapes
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
Published: 01 November 2013
... ( Edensor 2005 ; Farley and Roberts 2011 ; Hatherley 2011 ; Wright 2009 ; and, with a different purview, Woodward 2002 ). The longer history of ruination and modernization would have to include two of the most often quoted passages of leftist cultural and political analysis. Karl Marx and Frederick...
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