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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
..., and radical breaks from numerous canonical art tenets. Within the emergence of the American political and artistic Left, Spero’s political radicalism became the foundation of her artistic content and studio practice. From this foundation, as an early feminist artist, Spero produced a wide-ranging figurative...
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System, Totality, Representation: “Utopian Globalist” Gestures of Dissent in Late Cold War Visual Arts and Culture
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Jonathan Harris This essay highlights post-1945 intertwined aesthetic and political radicalisms in the visual arts, drawing on key examples from the United States and Western Europe in the decades from the end of World War II to the present. It seeks to explore the complex relations between...
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A Return to the Concept: The Structuralism of the Cahiers pour l’Analyse
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 244–262.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who was not at that point noted for his political radicalism, and the troubled Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, found one of its earliest embodiments in the pages of Les Cahiers pour l’Analyse ( CPA ), a journal produced in 1966–69 by the student “Epistemology Circle...
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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
...Sarah Hamblin This essay argues that the conditions of contemporary finance capitalism have exhausted the revolutionary potential of political modernist aesthetics. The global ’68 conjuncture generated many of the fundamental concepts that continue to underscore how contemporary radical film...
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“WIKIVISM”: FROM COMMUNICATIVE CAPITALISM TO ORGANIZED NETWORKS
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... politics. I also utilize Ned Rossiter’s concept of “organized networks” and show how these social-technical forms can provide a more radical proposition for thinking about the political possibilities of wikis. I proceed to translate wikis as specific kinds of organized networks that take us beyond a purely...
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The Dialectic of Sex , after the Post-1960s
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Madeline Lane-McKinley A key artifact of the political contradictions and utopian problematics of women’s liberation and the tradition of radical feminism at the end of the 1960s, Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex remains a site of controversies, misinterpretations, and unmet challenges...
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Interest and Excess of Modern Man’s Radical Medio crity: Rescaling Sloterdijk’s Grandiose Aesthetic Strategy
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in his own media as “radical mediocrity” and argue that this has become our first nature. But then, what is the political potential of Sloterdijk’s merger of aesthetics with politics as based on the Bataillan principle of excess rather than lack and scarcity? Should we not differentiate between...
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The Long ’68: African Anticolonialism and the Emergence of a World University System
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 303–314.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in the consciousness of political activists” during the 1960s and served as the “new measure of political radicalism” (see also Christiansen and Scarlett 2013a : 1). While student protests during May ’68 were largely urban affairs, the strategies, symbols, rhetoric, and imaginaries of anticolonial movements...
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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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“Say Rawr!”: Lyotard, Deleuze/Guattari, and the Refrains of Wesley Willis
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... imperative. Music's essential building block, according to Deleuze and Guattari, is the nonmusical refrain. However, whereas Deleuze and Guattari diagnosed music's radical becoming as an expressive deterritorialization, Lyotard considered music as a political act by virtue of its nonexpressive...
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Herbert Marcuse and the Promesse Du Bonheur : Politics and Literature in Dark Times
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... political change is unlikely to occur. The article revisits Marcuse’s 1945 essay and his reading of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Eluard. It begins by relating Marcuse’s interest in love poetry to the work of other critical theorists who see a radical role for aesthetics and the pursuit...
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The Uses of Financial Literacy: Financialization, the Radical Imagination, and the Unpayable Debts of Settler Colonialism
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 348–369.
Published: 01 November 2017
... decolonization of that education might imply. It ends with a celebration of settler-colonial bankruptcy as a moral and political-economic opening for a radical way forward. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 financialization financial literacy and education settler colonialism race and racism...
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On the Freedom to Be Opaque Monsters: Communist Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and the Sublime
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... suggest a new alignment between radical politics and aesthetics of the sublime via the Communist Party. Importantly, we find in the work of Jean-François Lyotard the point of intersection between communist pedagogy and sublime aesthetics. In closing, we read this aesthetic communist pedagogy through...
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Che and the Pre-Eminence of Culture in Revolutionary Cuba: The Pursuit of a Spontaneous, Inseparable Integrity
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 189–218.
Published: 01 July 2011
... in Cuban cultural theory and practices in the national, popular, and expressive arts domains. This process strikingly sustains the revolution's goals to bring about an equal and unified national community, a radical anti-imperialist, internationalist political ethos, and a deeply rooted universal arts...
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Wikination: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Gary Hall This article begins by analyzing critically the usefulness of the recent political philosophy of Chantal Mouffe for reconceptualizing ideas of peace and conflict. It takes as its focus for doing so the situation of the Middle East. It proceeds to show how Mouffe’s radical democratic...
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American Conservatism Unmoored: The Dissident Right's Adoption of Leftist Agitational Strategies
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2022
... seemingly abrupt adoption of three species of agitational practice: Alinsky-styled radicalism, identity politics, and accelerationism. It concludes by discussing the implications of this shift, in terms of what it means both for the future of conservative discourse and for leftist groups who must now take...
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Cyber-Libertarianism 2.0: A Discourse Theory/Critical Political Economy Examination
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... : Verso . Laclau E. 2005 . On Populist Reason . London : Verso . Laclau E. and Mouffe C. 2001 . Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics , 2 nd edn. London : Verso . Leary T. 1994 . Chaos and Cyberculture . Berkeley, CA : Ronin...
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What Happened in the Twentieth Century? En Route to A Critique of Extremist Reason: Inaugural Lecture, Emmanuel Levinas Chair, Strasbourg, March 4, 2005
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the first instance merely as the symptom of a concern for conservation, not as an adherence to any particular political standpoint. You may judge how justified these thoughts may be from a remark by Alain Badiou, one of the last keepers of the treasure of lost radicalism at the beginning of the twenty...
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The Future of Torture
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 150–155.
Published: 01 July 2017
... dependency. Physical torture aims to arouse intense fear. Psychological torture is the torture of the future, not only because it is “no marks” torture but also because its aim is different from physical torture and more radical. The victim is not simply reduced to impotence, helplessness, but to a state...
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In Defense of Decolonial Philistinism: Jameson, Adorno, and the Redemption of the Hatred of Art
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of such radical cultural politics in terms of philistinism. For this purpose, it articulates a more positive, critical, and dialectical notion of philistinism and the destruction and hatred of art. It does so by looking into essential work done by Fredric Jameson in the early 1990s regarding the crucial presence...
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