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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of globalization. This view is elaborated and modified by an interpretation based on a philosophy of history as recurrence or “metempsychosis...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of technology and its implications on information societies, the article frames the enquiry within the parameters of Martin Heidegger's and Gilles Deleuze's deliberations on the ways in which technology is brought to bear on the biopolitical imaginary of a population. The technological rationality...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., not on theology, but rather on philosophical anthropology and idealist epistemology. Hegel’s approach to history as the result of human actions that are never irrational but in principle always rational helps us to understand the historical process. This theory is specifically useful in understanding the series...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 July 2006
...McKenzie Wark If game theory was objective, rational, abstract; gamer theory is subjective, intuitive, particular. If game theory starts with the self-contained agent, like a prisoner in a cell, looking out at the world; gamer theory wonders how the agency of the gamer comes into being as something...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 July 2013
... but in terms of the foundation of sense experience in the given. He opposes Karl-Otto Apel's attempt to resolve the crisis through a metapragmatics that would ground reason according to the rules of argumentation of a community of rational agents. The crisis of foundations, he argues, is rather one...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 150–155.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of ever-greater dependency on his or her torturer. We have to distinguish between informed and deliberate conversion of a detainee’s political convictions, through a kind of hard bargaining that appeals to the detainee’s rationality; inducing a detainee to betray his or her convictions and his or her...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 78–89.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as it is found in Friedrich Schiller. If an autonomous subject possesses something exaggeratedly, superfluously, or irrationally elaborate, and if that subject further experiences ownership as liberation from the forceful demands of goal-oriented rationality and utilitarian thinking, then that something...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
... rationality. Third, I show how such practices of market commensuration depend on a range of evaluative devices that create environments of equivalence and hierarchical difference, explicating how these devices have come to play an increasingly important role in contemporary digital culture. I then discuss...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of commodity exchange. They reveal the exclusions, notably of noise, that enable rational communication, and the underpinning dependence of ostensibly unique items in semantic chains on their mutual indifference. Glitches are symbols whose nonhuman labor reveals the limits of humanism. With thanks...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-rational barbarians. Starting with the work of Friedrich Schiller, Wiesing explains that there are moments when humans become acutely aware of their own humanity. He explains that Schiller links these moments of self-consciousness to play, which fuses the sensuality of the beast and the rationality...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... with or within the dimension of rational argumentation, which both presupposes it and tends to conceal or repress it. So, to use one of Lyotard's constant references throughout this period, Kant's elaboration of the conditions of possibility of objective knowledge (in the form of the determinative judgment...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... ought to resist any urge to streamline its semiotic excess into the realm of critical rational discourse if we are to understand the potential of its use as resistance—its persistence is to illuminate the irrational. It is such an argument that one must assemble from bits and pieces laid out over...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 293–295.
Published: 01 November 2017
... from intellectuals as legislators (of universal truth, values, and rationality) to intellectuals as interpreters (of cultural meanings, political and historical events, social change, and the like). The shift in the fate of intellectuals is correlated to an alteration between two historical eras...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of theology and politics, the crucial example for Schmitt is that “the exception in politics is analogous to the miracle in theology” (2006: 36). That modern political and legal principles are secular rational reformulations of what were originally religious ideas is not exclusively Schmitt's insight...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... was made popular by Carl Schmitt back in 1922. Political religions such as Soviet communism, Nazism, but also more recent forms of political Islam rose in the age of scientific rationalism. Their revolutionary messianism projected a secular eschatology, either predicting a realm of thousand years...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 July 2005
... an enlightened rationality – they make a judgement, and their deliberations establish a short list of the best and a worthy winner. One Whitbread judge explained his role: “I think Harry Potter is derivative, dull and boring. That may make me a pompous prat but so be it. That's my judgment and that was what I...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 212–227.
Published: 01 July 2021
... not want to rationalize or legitimate the renunciation of thinking an alternative. Though he acknowledges the empirical dimension of consciousness, it is by no means reducible to the empirical (Stiegler 2011b : 165), meaning that consciousness still has the faculty to transcend the material field. Hence...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288–292.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Contemporary Sociology: A Critical Analysis (2017). Rattansi gathers together all the main critiques: Bauman misunderstands Weber; he uses the notion of bureaucracy out of its Weberian context; the Nazi bureaucracy in any case ceased to be a pure one because it was politicized and its instrumental rationality...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 389–403.
Published: 01 November 2014
... legibility, rationalizing building services, and deploying materials to aid way-finding—Foster Associates’ original design for Stansted might be located squarely in the same intellectual project as queuing tape, in a systems thinking that seeks to maintain a technical, efficient, and predictable world...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to make the market form itself the regulative principle underlying the state. Second, neoliberalism relies on a different notion of the individual or subject. For classic liberals, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the free, rational, individual is the very foundation of the state, that which grounds...
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