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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the surrounding factories and contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material, including thorium and uranium, used to process the seventeen most sought after minerals in the world, which are known as rare earths. China produces over 95 percent of the world’s rare earths...
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Figure 3 Baotou, China, 2014: a rare-earth refinery with centrifuges concentrates rare-earth ore into industrial application before it is force dried into powder form. China produces 76 percent of the world’s rare-earth magnets.
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Figure 4 Baotou, China, 2014: film still from Rare Earthenware (2014) showing Unknown Fields collecting radioactive mud from the tailings lake at the outflow of Baogang Iron and Steel Corporation. The mud was used to craft the set of three ceramic vessels.
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 370–390.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Patricia Mooney Nickel With novel charitable and philanthropic opportunities emerging at an astonishing rate, it is rarely necessary today to draw the reader’s attention to the cultural politics of philanthropy; the word philanthropy is associated with nearly every celebrity personality, as well...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the general intellect along these lines by drawing on two theorists who are rarely thought together: Paolo Virno and Jean-François Lyotard. The article begins by introducing the general intellect and Virno’s reconceptualization of it as the general or generic intellect. It then introduces a relationship...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 2 The finished vases are sized in relation to the amount of waste created in the production of three items of technology that use rare earth: a smartphone, a featherweight laptop, and the cell of a smart-car battery.
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Figure 1 Bayan Obo, China, December 21, 2010: inside the highly restricted Bayan Obo rare earth mine. The treasure mountain deposit is the world’s largest and, as of 2005, is responsible for 45 percent of global rare earth metal production. Photographer Toby Smith gained access in 2010 by waiting
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2017
... circulate gives us insight into its communicative effect. Pepe is a rare meme—rare as a productive force of cultural appeal for those who can deftly communicate the grammar and syntax of the meme, but also in its function as a mode of visual communication. In a 2015 Buzzfeed article titled “We Asked...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 1 Bayan Obo, China, December 21, 2010: inside the highly restricted Bayan Obo rare earth mine. The treasure mountain deposit is the world’s largest and, as of 2005, is responsible for 45 percent of global rare earth metal production. Photographer Toby Smith gained access in 2010 by waiting...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 265–268.
Published: 01 July 2007
... policies in Cuba are rare due to the tendency of writers on Cuban matters to come down on one side or other of the political divide (pro- or anti-Castro). His stated aim is to evaluate fairly the impact of cultural policies in Cuba post-1959 with a view to opening up an informed debate on the subject...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 459–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... technical media. The screen of a phone is similarly polished, buffed smooth to the molecular level using the rare-earth element Cerium. But the refined metals contained in my slices of manufactured future fossil are too opaque and reflective to be identified by optical mineralogy. For those working...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2018
... antithetical to true desire, since they rarely complement the fragrance of the skin, in most cases combine with it unpleasantly, and always distract and divert the male’s olfactory imagination. The male gradually loses his powerful sense for female flesh and replaces it with an irresolute, entirely artificial...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 73–78.
Published: 01 March 2012
... participants or with young North American fans, the rare French speakers among them acting as intermediaries. DJ Spooky, a Deleuzian rising star on the turntable scene, even approaches Jean B. (the “Chance” crowds use the English pronunciation) to ask whether the combinatory practices of the DJ belong...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 355–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of moving toward a circular model of production even though downcycled materials can rarely be recycled again ( McDonough and Braungart 2010) . Since artisanal plastics recycling is generally conducted with no respiratory equipment, workers ingest the dioxins and furans released through the melting process...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
... —have previously been translated in their entirety, and they are republished by Leuven University Press in their original translations. However, the book on Duchamp is difficult to obtain, and while the book on Sam Francis is not quite so rare, it is for the first time published in French, having...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., but only after the technological object has been produced. Man is very rarely, as man, that on which the tech no logical operation is carried out. Most often, it is only in rare, serious and dangerous or destructive cases that man is the direct object of technical operations, as in surgery, war...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and others where women could not cut their hair or wear pants. The churches were rarely located in traditional church buildings; I found them in strip malls or metal-sided warehouses. Despite my wide-ranging search, I never regained the urgency of faith I experienced on the day of my baptism. The hapless...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2007
... musicians, interviewed by McKay himself, and illustrated throughout with rare photographs, often drawn from their private collections. McKay has necessarily, and wisely, avoided an attempt to write a history of jazz in Britain. He begins his Preface: “This is not really (only) a book about music, about...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
...) , Postcolonial Paris is a timely intervention into a growing corpus that reads French colonial and postcolonial cultural histories as intersecting phenomena. While the banlieues in and of themselves have produced a wealth of sociological and cultural analysis, rarely do discussions of Paris seek to bridge...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
...: On the Government of the Living (1979–80), Subjectivity and Truth (1980–81), The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981–82), The Government of the Self and Others (1982–83), and The Courage of Truth: The Government of the Self and Others II (1983–84). These lectures rarely, after the 1979–80 lectures, return...
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