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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 November 2014
... enactment where the end augurs the beginning. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 more-than-human oceanic affective habitus practices of sustainable consumption Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jonathan Faiers Disruptive luxury is a recent addition to the lexicon of luxury. Understood as both a practical and philosophical antidote to luxury’s entrenched patterns of production and consumption, the term disruptive is proving to be as indeterminate as the word luxury itself, with its complex...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of climate change may force changes in the consumption of luxury. Exploring the case for the re-moralization of luxury, Berry (2016) argues that it is the impact on the environment and sustainability that is likely, in time, to provide the strongest case for a return to a morally prohibitive view of luxury...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... on the one hand, and the collapse of pension funds and increases in layoffs and unemployment on the other. How they conceptualize consumption, in other words, has less to do with actual practices than it does with a specific image of the consumer. Moreover, even as they criticize the consumption...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 253–256.
Published: 01 July 2008
... to the production of cosmopolitanism – a term she uses to refer not to a deterritorialized force that is universalizing “the place of no place,” but to particular “ways of ‘worlding’ China, of placing China in a re-imagined world” (p. 112). If consumption is a practice of embodying new identities, Rofel finds...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... , and that the chances of a civilized exit from capitalism depend primarily on our capacity to discern the trends and practices that herald its possibility. Capitalism owes its expansion and domination to the power it has assumed, within the space of a century, over both production and consumption. By first...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
... or Museums of Production? Quality Food Initiatives in Practice .” Journal of Rural Studies 27 , no. 1 : 73 – 82 . Bowen Sarah Zapata Ana Valenzuela . 2009 . “ Geographical Indications, Terroir, and Socioeconomic and Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Tequila .” Journal of Rural...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of interval , defined by desperate attempts to reboot the global economy and to transform the neoliberal ideological landscape by seeking to blame the masses for their exorbitant consumption while excusing the social irresponsibility of a model of government organized around individualism and the production...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and communal association in favor of industrial prerogatives for sustaining increases in production (and profit) through regulating consumption. These traditionally territorial grounds were ordered via the artifactual forms of spatial and temporal situating that Stiegler names “calendarity” and “cardinality...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 413–431.
Published: 01 November 2024
... change in society are owned by giant industries that only propose products destined for immediate consumption, Stiegler claims that it is politically crucial for individuals to intervene. This must be in developing a working knowledge of their technical environment in order to become again the active...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Like much cultural critique, they see digital technologies only as perceived from the point of consumption in the overdeveloped, technologized, nominally “industrial” world. But the industries that fabricate and dispose of such technologies are not sited in the global North. The purity of Jonathan...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Ann Brooks; Lionel Wee In this article, we identify two models of consumer culture: the more familiar appeasement model where the “customer is king,” as well as a less established and recently emergent achievement model where the consumer’s efforts in consummating the act of consumption are lauded...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., rendered urgent by the efficiency with which simulacral images and rhetoric serve to produce and sustain a political administration whose terrifying power is effected through visual regimes (i.e. established patterns of production, distribution, and consumption). The workings of simulacral culture...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... been directed at the representational practices of the super-rich. These are also marked by continuities and changes over time. If the conspicuous consumption and performances of affluence identified by Veblen ([1899] 1994) have transformed in an era of informationalization when “even billionaires...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the necessary complements to the deprivations of work. Their practices of unwork can be the means for imagining, instead, the modes of labor that could sustain a materialist and feminist public sphere for and of the general intellect. 1. What I call here “cognitive labor” has been referred...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 135–154.
Published: 01 July 2016
... positioning. The ethical implications and efficacy of the latter are not necessarily more advanced or clearer than those of the former. As thick social fabrics are torn asunder or coaxed into more individualistic pursuits of consumption and well-being, there are no clear visions or practices for how residents...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and productively been associated with key concepts like conspicuous consumption, status rivalry, distinction, sumptuary goods, and specialized markets that all concern the complex relations of social classes, of elites to nonelites, within nation-states, or transnationally. Here I am concerned, rather, with one...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 271–273.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the only identified way to sustain a normal way of life. Alphin's book aims to make visible those ubiquitous practices which involve burnout in this sense. Ultimately, it would seem, burnout has become a mythology in the Barthesian sense: being accepted as a natural consequence of our contemporary...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-hop: Paul Gilroy's 2011 Darker than Blue , which sees in the genre empty posturing and codes of conspicuous consumption; the 2012 edition of Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal's anthology That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader , which with a wide array of essays and interviews seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
... once luxury products are rehabilitated as philanthropic products, while these secondhand products construct their opposite—“haute philanthropy” ( Nickel 2015b) . In the thrift store, as Mike Featherstone (1991 : 90) observed of the production of symbols in consumption practices on a broader scale...
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