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“Trump”—What Does the Name Signify? or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture

Matthew Flisfeder
Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4312844
Published: 01 March 2018
... from previous right-wing ideologies. More generally, the three contradictions presented here are proposed as explanations for understanding the mainstreaming of the alt-right in contemporary politics and culture. References Anderson Perry . 1998 . The Origins of Postmodernity . New York...
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Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis

Jean-François Lyotard
Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2146066
Published: 01 July 2013
... though, as I have said, little is made of this in his argument on account of its Hegelian taint. The difference between Kantian reflexivity and that advanced by Apel lies in the occasion for it. The term “occasion” is Kantian: it is on the occasion of the presentation of an object to the productive...
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Figures 14–16 Television Confessions, presented initially at the LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) in 2018, is an ongoing project that engages with the spectacle of public confessions made by political detainees in Singapore from the 1960s to the 1980s through reenactment videos using transcripts of these televised events found in newspaper archives. The videos in this series include Students’ Confessions, The Playwright's Confession, and Student Reconstruction. Courtesy of the artist.

Television Confessions , presented initially at the LASALLE College of the ...

in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 14–16 Television Confessions , presented initially at the LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) in 2018, is an ongoing project that engages with the spectacle of public confessions made by political detainees in Singapore from the 1960s to the 1980s through reenactment videos using More
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The Erotic and Pragmatic Senses of Hospitality: Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler's Conversation on Christianity, Politics, and the Ends of Philosophy

Donovan Stewart
Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 64–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-11557633
Published: 01 March 2025
...Donovan Stewart Abstract This article discusses three aspects of hospitality. The author first presents hospitality as a way to think the shared, responsive structure of existence. From this ontological sense of hospitality as originary response, the author presents two political inflections...
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Rewriting Modernity: Topographical and Topological Variations in Paul Virilio’s Le futurisme de l’instant

Enda McCaffrey
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895831
Published: 01 July 2015
...-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time, and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the “squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor...
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De Nostalgia

Friedrich Kittler, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3342008
Published: 01 November 2015
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell , Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann , and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow . Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian...
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The “Public Inquisitor” As Media Celebrity

Michael Higgins
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 93–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174310X12549254318863
Published: 01 March 2010
...Michael Higgins This article looks at the development and utility of celebrity among high-profile political interviewers. Offering the revised description “public inquisitor,” the article presents an overview of the rise of the political interviewer as a celebrity form of the “tribune of the people...
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The Exit from Capitalism Has Already Begun

André Gorz
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174310X12549254318629
Published: 01 March 2010
... and economic criticism to the Marx of the Grundrisse, a book to which Jean-Marie Vincent introduced him in 1959. 1 In the words of Finn Bowring, his works of the 1980s and 1990s present “an understanding of capitalism as a system of hetero-regulation which aggressively de-civilized human beings, undermining...
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On the Struggle for Epokhē and the Crisis of the Savoirs : Stiegler contra Will Self / Will Self contra Stiegler

Joff P. N. Bradley
Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-9964829
Published: 01 November 2022
... Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020). Both thinkers, albeit in different ways and with different emphases—one literary, one more philosophical—address the psychical and traumatogenic consequences of epokhē . We can understand this as a suspension of disbelief in the present as we live through an “epoch without...
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Corrupt and Honorable, Gangster and Nobleman: Naval′nyi, Zolotov, and the Conflicting Moral Cultures in Russian Politics

Jardar Østbø
Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233378
Published: 01 July 2020
... presents the readers with a case study of General Viktor Zolotov’s challenge of the leader of the liberal opposition Aleksei Naval′nyi to a duel in September 2018. Seen through an analytical lens, this seemingly absurd speech act and its reception reveal the extremes in the spectrum spanning from the ideal...
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Cultural Politics and Conquest Culture: Report from Istanbul

Asu Aksoy, Kevin Robins
Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 279–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-9305363
Published: 01 November 2021
..., there is a locally distinctive aspect that merits attention. Istanbul is a city that was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, and the discourse of conquest has remained significant within the urban imaginary. And at the present time, it is being mobilized by the state and its cultural ministry, in the cause...
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Figure 5. Mannahatta VR (work in progress), November 2016, screenshot of virtual reality experience in the HTC Vive headset. This is a virtual reality experience created with Highway 101, ETC, to bring together the past and present of one block of Broadway, developed through consultation with Lenape peoples, ecologists, educators, and technologists. We ask ourselves: How can we expand knowledge of indigenous Manhattan? What does a sustainable indigenous future look like?

Mannahatta VR (work in progress), November 2016, screenshot of virtual rea...

in Circulating Undercurrents > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 July 2017
Figure 5 Mannahatta VR (work in progress), November 2016, screenshot of virtual reality experience in the HTC Vive headset. This is a virtual reality experience created with Highway 101, ETC, to bring together the past and present of one block of Broadway, developed through consultation More
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Figures 11–13 Malayan Exchange, first exhibited at The Arts House (Singapore) as a complete series and later shown at Valentine Willie Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) in 2011, is a project that seeks to examine the construction of national narratives through reimagining sets of alternative currency notes by featuring images of forgotten activists and politicians. The latest iteration (Study of a Circulated Note) was presented in 2019 as part of the group exhibition Stealing Public Space curated by Iola Lenzi at The Substation (Singapore). Courtesy of the artist.

Malayan Exchange , first exhibited at The Arts House (Singapore) as a compl...

in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
notes by featuring images of forgotten activists and politicians. The latest iteration ( Study of a Circulated Note ) was presented in 2019 as part of the group exhibition Stealing Public Space curated by Iola Lenzi at The Substation (Singapore). Courtesy of the artist. More
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Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang (figures 3 and 4).

“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...

in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore More
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Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang (figures 3 and 4).

“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...

in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore More
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Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore) in 2021. Works in this series examine the public assemblies and protests in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s by investigating the history, performative function and significance of public assemblies in relation to the ideas of power and freedom. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Marvin Tang (figures 3 and 4).

“Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project...

in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng > Cultural Politics
Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 1–4 “Public Assembly” (right and previous pages) is an ongoing research project first conceptualized in 2020 as part of a residency program at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) and presented in the group exhibition RECAST curated by Berny Tan at Starch Gallery (Singapore More
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Europe and Its Complexity: What Would Like to Be Said

Kevin Robins
Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 262–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2795657
Published: 01 November 2014
... intellectual and imaginative resources for the present conjuncture. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 cosmopolitanism European culture complexity cultural diversity More than ever before, there are things in the world that would like to be said. —Elias Canetti, The Human Province...
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Inner Screens and Cybernetic Battlefields: Paul Virilio and RoboCop

Brian Sudlow
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895795
Published: 01 July 2015
...Brian Sudlow José Padilha’s new RoboCop (2014) film can be read in the light of Paul Virilio’s theoretical work, notably Desert Screen . RoboCop serves as the city’s warrior but also as a munition in the hands of global media forces. Still, even if the film presents the fallibility of robotic...
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The Studious University: A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Groundwork

David I. Backer, Tyson E. Lewis
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 329–345.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3341936
Published: 01 November 2015
... that the university is undergoing a major identity crisis. What many of these analyses fail to recognize is the underlying educational logic at work in higher education—a logic that informs both conservative and progressive analyses of the university. Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, we present a critical...
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Unsolicited Submission

David Levine
Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 85–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174310X12549254318827
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Levine “Hopeful” is part of David Levine's larger project about unsolicited submissions. As presented in 2009 at Galerie Feinkost in Berlin and Cabinet in new York, it comprises the first phase of a multidisciplinary and multi-year project of gathering, analyzing, and archiving unsolicited...
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