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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 92–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Marcelo Svirsky In Giorgio Agamben’s call to profane the sacred in the most desacralized forms, the specific mechanics through which the sacred and the profane connect and become indistinctive remains undertheorized. This article, then, aims at adding a further layer of practical articulation...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., making, and tasting that constitute the movement, he finds the lineament of a strategic materialism that aims to make visible and is open toward the agency of the nonhuman matter, and which does so by addressing simultaneously wine’s terroir and taste, by means of profanating their taken-for-granted...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of Benjamin's work. In this respect I seek to follow Žižek's own strategy of philosophical buggery to redeem the profane materialism, or real, of Benjamin's thought from those who would seek to relate his work to current liberal theories of delay and deferral. When we enter the symbolic order we are always...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of “popular music” would serve the concepts under discussion with more efficacy. Specifically, the music of Wesley Willis executes such a political/musical act through deterritorializing refrains that are expressed directly through the profane repetitions of musical technology. Lyotard was swift to cite...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... for contemporary capitalism resides in its ability to reveal the true logic of luxury, which is that it is not really concerned with the profane world of things but is constantly seeking to move beyond the material sphere into theological or atheological space. Simply put, this means that the contemporary...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and economic Darwinism of neoliberal capitalism. If the spirit of communism is concerned with a recognition of vulnerability and the sacrifice of the self in the name of the other, then there is no such ethic of civilization and raising up of the profane body about the nihilism of the virus or the spirit...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... aside at the next encounter, or who have experienced the labyrinthine allusiveness of that ‘law of good neighbors’ whereby Warburg arranged his library, know that not only can study have no rightful end, but does not even desire one” (1995: 64). Such an image of the perpetual studier is a profanation...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 284–287.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the broader sense of European intellectual history, where the writer or thinker was never confined to a particular professional discipline that defined what could and could not be said. Against this limiting profane professionalism, the intellectual had a kind of ethical, political, and historical mission...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., as nature became conceived as natura pura (pure nature) ( Dupré 1993 ). Nature as a consequence became a “dark mysterious unknown” that can only be known by means of other more profane forms of illumination, especially the illumination of modern technics . Thus key questions for early modern theology...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 263–273.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to nothing short of a massacre” (634). What Leiris called the “altar board” is the tabot , a replica of the Arc of the Covenant, the most sacred object in an Abyssinian Christian Orthodox Church. Leiris was exalted by the sense of sacrilege, profanation. “I admire the squat, round little animal...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that underpins normative quests. Eric Voegelin's political anthropology held that, beyond the profane nature of society's institutional and material bases, people participate in political community with all the traits of their being, from the physical to the spiritual and the religious ( Voegelin 2007: 63...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 222–230.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., sandpaper, decorative paper on canvas. 102 × 78 inches, 2006. I’ve manipulated loaded words and images to subvert the individual given meanings of the source materials: film publicity and production stills combined with profanities and curses. This juxtaposition represents a language of defiance...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
... ability to bring sensuousness, mysticism, and contemplation into daily life. In this short film, the main character carries out a self-sacrificing miracle that becomes his first and last action, his first time living beyond the profane realm of labor and a suicidal gesture. Like many workers today...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of separating interior and exterior spaces, and differentiating the values of the sacred from the profane. The effect of cultural mobility and transnational circuits is to link different cultures and past memories together in many different and competing ways. European public culture emerges as a result...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 118–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
... states and an eerie free-for-all movement. The duality of frontal and profile may also mark a congruity between good and evil, sacred and profane, active and passive. These paradoxes multiply within the axes of the Maypole itself, which ostensibly marks the anticipation of celebration, community...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
...; and a profane technoscience of viral spheres and particles, surfaces, and projections that coexist with the contemporary modernization of the world of perception, our views on machination, our liberation, our attempted conquest of the world of the virus, and the supremacy of reason as vital...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
... relationships. We can only speculate as to the salience of its religious and moral frame, but surely children spun too their own profane animal worlds and dramas from the little wooden figures and their boat-home. If the injection-molded farm, zoo, and dinosaur sets (like the soldiers next to them...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of consumer uses of Mao’s image; on objects like cigarette lighters, watch faces and key chains. Some of them were openly parodic. This immersal of his icon into the profane marketplace of kitsch helped to dissolve his charismatic appeal among the general population. Mao was now “off the altar,” as a popular...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and the signs of absence, Keiller’s spatial fictions return space to its potentiality, thus consigning it to its own tenderness, an exactitude beyond measure. The potential for transformation can be occasioned not in the gathering of crowds but in the solitude of a profane illumination. The overlook...
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