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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 458–471.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to the recursive claims of identity and representation in large-scale international exhibitions. Hartono and Afisina comment on documenta 's partial narration of its own history of postwar internationalism, which fails to account for the historic Asian-African Conference at Bandung from the same year of its...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
... selected artists, practices, and products, and nascent spectacular global capitalism (including some of spectacle’s “technical means of production,” such as perspectival representations). Drawing on elements of the well-known critique of spectacle developed by Guy Debord, the essay posits a tradition...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2014
... examination of media and cinematic representations and their effects on politics and history. Brief clips of a Palestinian fighter, drawn from Godard’s 1970 footage of the intifada, and of a Hollywood Indian, as shown in figures 3–4, represent both the “hell” of the young fighter’s life being extinguished...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and representations; mechanisms and structures; experiences and identities. The empirical and conceptual insights of the contents are then highlighted, with regard to the significance of discourses of legitimacy, namely, those of meritocracy, civility, and luxury; the intersections of race and class that underpin...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... The author argues that these representations play a central role in the reproduction of the Western professional middle class, and in the cultural constitution of a global middle class — professional, affluent, urban, and affiliated by an aesthetic regime of civility that transcends national borders...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
... transformed into stages for enacting the spectacle of modernity. The ambiguity of the word “model” elided tensions inherent in the model village, for Etawah was to be, simultaneously, (1) a representation of a typical village, (2) a reproducible prototype, and (3) an exemplar. The emphasis on display...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... representation of contemporary Chinese utopianism organized and disseminated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the name of national security. Finally, and in order to extend this discussion of Chan’s representation of actual Chinese dystopianism, in the final section of the article I take up the metaphor...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2023
... engagement with the relationship between epistemological cultures and cultural ontologies on the one hand, and political institutions on the other, with a particular focus on different “species” of beings (human, nonhuman animal, plant, and so on). It also sets out the methodological and representational...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 241–260.
Published: 01 July 2023
... American “narco.” The juxtaposition of these two images is a denunciation of the similar conditions in Colombia and the United States that force people into the trade as well as a complicated and gory representation of the neoliberal ethos Escobar represents. The article concludes by registering how hip...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... The authors focus on the linguistic contours of graphical representation and display by providing a brief media archaeology of contemporary Internet language, upsetting its separation into generational stages, and therefore a linear progression of its history. At the same time, the authors argue...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... intime (2007) and David Oelhoffen’s Far from Men (2014) are among these transnational productions that accomplish both tasks. In the stories told by the two films, the plots show evidence of a fundamental thematic transformation in filmic representations that collapses the differences between colonizer...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 202–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., in the anti-Semitic representation of Jews—and proposes that the conceptual framework of in/hospitability can be substituted in a way that both maintains the logic of un/inhabitability’s beneficial aspects—its illumination of the inequitable distribution of environmental harms in the Anthropocene...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... They not only support the idea of a nature-culture continuum but also provide the philosophical grounding for technological mediation to be defined not as a form of representation but as the expression of “medianaturecultural” ethical relations and forces. 1 Donna Haraway (1990 , 2003 ) is a pioneer...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 July 2012
...; it is also at odds with China's attempted/failed/ongoing revolution and trajectory since 1949. I offer an interdisciplinary analysis of area studies and other representations of China, especially in regard to Tiananmen and the Cultural Revolution. I then contrast this with current intellectual debates...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Association—as they contest the imperative to produce cultural/knowledge representations on behalf of the present. Drawing on Michel Foucault's identification of the political practice of parrēsia and its relationship to ontologies of veridiction, I argue that the institutionalization of the author stabilizes...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 237–264.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Soenke Zehle; Ned Rossiter The return of political ontology and its critique of representation contributes to a retrieval of the antagonistic registers of “the political.” A corresponding interest in processes of collaborative constitution has explored alternative modalities of the (conflictual...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... figure on the world stage, as well as media representations of Trump as a devouring monster. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Donald Trump fat American animality materiality metaphor It’s hard to avoid fat in Donald Trump’s America. The president’s contempt for fat women, to begin...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of gender as we understand it today is sketched out. Then, issues around representations of trans constituencies are discussed as problematically informed by dominant conceptions of gender and perpetuated in mainstream consumer culture. Then two distinct contemporary projects that disrupt the space...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 148–158.
Published: 01 March 2023
... pause. Space for breath, for detours in modes of multispecies literary representation. If the line—working on the assembly line and writing a certain kind of poetic line—is an orientation that draws literature and the abattoir together, as Joseph Ponthus's autofictional poem essay On the Line: Notes...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... specific role and operation in relation to contemporary representations of incarceration. In particular, the article considers the figure of the incarcerated informant. The incarcerated criminal or informant plays a complex role as both subversive other and purveyor of truth and as such constitutes...
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