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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., the environment in which we are immersed and which pervades us will always be an electric field flowing through us. Like any other radio network, 5G is invisible and abstract, and no one can see the artificially generated high-frequency radiation. At the same time, almost all of us have a sensor in our pocket...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Humbert is read through the lens of Cold War anxieties about radiation, missile attack through the DEW Line and a “mapping” of America by subversive aliens. Lolita herself is the Uranium Girl, radiant child of nuclear America under threat from the death ray of the bomb’s fallout. © BERG 2008 PRINTED...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 303–314.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Isaac Kamola The decade-long revolution known as May ’68 is commonly framed as a political protest radiating out from European and North American universities. However, much is gained by instead viewing May ’68 within the context of both anticolonial struggle and the emergence of what Wallerstein...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., the work of spotlighting presence, legitimacy, and excellence as a role model for a broader feminine community. Glow is linked to a narrative of feminine enlightenment and inner peace, in which beauty comes from within and radiates outward from the skin, and feminine aesthetic labor is harnessed...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 July 2006
... in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. 4 As an activist and survivor, he tries to provide a historical account of nuclear testing – not just on the Enewetak Atoll but also on the Bikini Atoll ( plate 7 ) and elsewhere – and the subsequent fallout and cancer clusters to anyone who will listen and who could...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 337–350.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of the narration, we should not be surprised to find it in Shadow on the Hearth : Merril’s story of the previous year, “That Only a Mother” (1976: 15–25), about a woman in denial of mutations engendered in her baby by radiation, had already hinged, as Roger Luckhurst points out, on a more conventional unreliable...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
...” vessels are the physical embodiment of a contemporary global supply network that displaces earth and weaves matter across the planet. They are presented as objects of desire, but their elevated radiation levels and toxicity make them objects we would not want to possess. They represent the undesirable...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Consider the Red Room ( Twin Peaks ), Club Silencio ( Mulholland Drive ), Treves’s unveiling of Merrick for the medical board’s consideration ( The Elephant Man ), the stage within the radiator ( Eraserhead ), and the club where Sailor sings an Elvis song with backing from a heavy metal band ( Wild...
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Published: 01 July 2006
and removing tens of thousands of corpses … About 100,000 people (95,000 of them civilians) were killed instantly. Another 100,000, most of these civilians as well, died long, drawn-out deaths from the effects of radiation” ( Lindqvist 2000 : 234). More
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
... as “electromagnetic” energy levels that can be tabulated by counting atoms and molecular structures, levels of energy of radiation, or kinetic energy. Biologists sometimes refer to energy as “light” ( Margulis et al. 2011 ). In screen-based technologies (film, television, radio, portable media-transmission forms...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 333–346.
Published: 01 November 2021
... celebrity as a gunslinging performer and occasional lawman. A certain rugged cowboy aura radiates out of the laconic drifter, whom the township views with fascination and Swearengen observes with dread. So much of Wild Bill's arc over the first four episodes of Deadwood suggests that he and his new...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
...,” in which corporate interests attempt to colonize and dominate the social. The “backdrop” in the Trump Tower photographs is less of a backdrop than a foreground. Its gold hues, from ceiling to floor, drip ostentatious wealth, besides which the men joyously position themselves. It radiates not only...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and products to spray or radiation” (28). And if technology is exposing the natural world to the risks of potential harm, it is doing likewise to humans. Here, Nancy cites the examples of “the cancer of cancers,” which is “the proliferation of varieties of cancer linked to all sorts of causes located...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... could as well occasionally have a destabilizing effect. Bernard Lovell, who was entrusted with a guiding role in the development of radar in England, mentions that decisive development progress could not be verified by the Radiation Laboratory at MIT, an outcome which strengthened efforts against...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... into useless expenditure, lavish consumption, and luxurious waste. Moreover, he explains that there is no moral issue in this turn to expenditure, because luxury is a kind of cosmic, planetary condition, which originates in the way that the sun expends itself in its tendency toward radiation. However...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 119–134.
Published: 01 March 2005
... volunteer as guinea pigs for the measurement and observation of radiation effects on living organisms – representing an early explicit bureaucratic merging of science (DOE) and the military (DOD). The next project “Rocket Science” also used military images as sources. It was a broader, more conceptually...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the granite mountain, a succession of rooms, cellars, tunnels, habitation cells, storage, and staircases radiated in a complex Piranesi network. Meant to host humans for months in case of nuclear winter, the bunker was now redesigned to accommodate IT consultants, fin tech investors, and computer engineers...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... meaningful action that would mitigate or prevent the radiation from arriving, and with nowhere to run, the general response is an attempt to continue to live as before, albeit with every conversation and every action marked by a shadow of anxiety and dread. In part this signals defiance in the face...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... into the Carpenter; and Ensslin herself was Fleece the cook, who spends his time preaching to the sharks. Ahab's name was, of course, reserved for Andreas Baader, the group's self-appointed domineering alpha phallus. Given the limited success of Ahab's whaling expedition, the choice of names does not radiate great...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to feel anything and records life impassively like a kind of “camcorder connected to a biological computer” (Dantec 2003: 577). By this stage, the novel's initial criminal investigation has foundered in impasse: Kernal discovers that his prime suspect died of radiation-induced bone cancer in 1994. Having...