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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Enda McCaffrey This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Peter W. Milne I am indebted to my fellow organizers of the “Rewriting Lyotard” conference, Heidi Bickis, Rob Shields, and Kent Still, both for their collegiality and enthusiasm in putting that meeting together and for the work they did on the initial proposal to Cultural Politics out of which...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... perfunctory language – whether as “information-rich data banks” or else animating the “fantasy of abundance” – and allow us to see them in a decidedly “political” way, as necessarily “incomplete” and thus eminently “rewritable” formations. This essay then concludes by examining the wider implications...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 203–222.
Published: 01 July 2007
... Dynasty is re-presented as a Chinese Communist Party member who receives a “Certificate of Excellent Deeds,” a government reward presented to outstanding workers during the times of the control economy. All of these parodies, rewritings, and reshapings of canonic works that emerged in the late 1990s...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 183–187.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in what Lyotard will call anamnesis. Joyce rewrites the Odyssey as if it had never been written, as if Ulysses had never been its protagonist, as if the biographical past of the book's characters—the death of Stephen Dedalus's mother and Leopold Bloom's son—were as inappropriable as the possibility...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
...” of modern screen existence. Finally, in “Rewriting Modernity: Topographical and Topological Variations in Paul Virilio’s Le futurisme de l’instant ” McCaffrey rereads Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 484–486.
Published: 01 November 2022
... shaped itself out of the polytheistic, polymorphic entity once acknowledged as Hinduism. Manipulating ancient texts, rereading scriptures, rewriting histories—all work toward building this new entity that is created to usher in the new deeply polarized nationhood of India. This book...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 394–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ). Nevertheless, Ascher’s approach differs from those of other contributions to this literature. Rather than drawing on Marx’s own writings on finance as but one theoretical resource ( Lazzarato 2012 , 2015 ), Portfolio Society is an appropriative rewriting of Marx’s Capital . It uses a series...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of misery, but it is disastrous because it forces history and the rewriting of the future into a War in Heaven. However, political Islam is capable of renouncing jihad and producing gradualist, nonviolent forms of democratic inclusion. In addition to understanding the hybrid nature of political Islam...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... What Žižek suggests is an updating, a complete rewrite of this story, a “brutal” transposition into today's world. Imagine, he says, a Parsifal taking place in a modern megalopolis, with Klingsor as an impotent pimp running a whorehouse; he uses Kundry to seduce members of the “Grail” circle...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 177–199.
Published: 01 July 2023
... ) argue in their book Geostories , a repertoire of drawing techniques can be used to model polyscalar worlds, building on natural history from Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin but also rewriting or, even more literally, redrawing natural history for other purposes. Axonometry is one of the examples...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to Adorno’s ( 2002 : 341) claim that “the elucidated and concrete dissolution of conventional aesthetic categories is the only remaining form that aesthetics can take.” Metzger’s art thus attempts to situate itself anew, to write and rewrite its being within barbarism in the sense of (i), while it seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... obvious thought is that what Lyotard diagnoses at the end of his piece as a disruption affecting the interplay of the faculties affects the very definition of anything like “faculties” in the first place. Even rewritten, as Lyotard likes to rewrite them, in terms of language games, we might suspect...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... systems” (Villarreal 2004 : 103). They can be symbiotic as well. Viruses as vectors play a major role in genetic engineering, allowing us to rewrite ourselves. As symbionts they play a key role in the carbon cycle of the oceans and the life cycle of parasitic wasps. They are also a driver...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2011
... itself, obliterating the very events depicted by superseding and replacing them, first in the public imagination and later in the writing and rewriting of official histories. JA: How has your pursuit of the apocalyptic sublime developed beyond your early nuclear landscapes? JG: Since the late...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 472–484.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of genre via modernist or postmodernist defamiliarization, rewriting and reworking the genres in which they are composed. Both of these novels break or deconstruct their genre-based conventions, their experimental form offering political critique. Finally, and most effectively, a small group of novels...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 July 2019
... .” Cultural Politics 1 , no. 2 : 165 – 92 . McCaffrey Enda . 2015 . “ Rewriting Modernity: Topographical and Topological Variations in Paul Virilio’s Le futurism de l’instant .” Cultural Politics 11 , no. 2 : 275 – 91 . Merleau-Ponty Maurice . 2013 . Phenomenology of Perception...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
... results can never be corroborated by experience. Indeed, to wait for these models’ calculations to be verified—for their accuracy to be proven—is to give up on the future by rewriting political problems as ones that science can (dis-)solve. How can we conceive of the relation between models...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
...” (February 24), “going to disappear” (February 28), “going to go away” (March 12), and “opened up and just raring to go by Easter” (March 25)—a series of rewrites followed, ranging from ad hoc denial to the ultimate power in politics, all-out war (McCarthy 2020 ). President Emmanuel Macron of France fired...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... intimate mother/child-relationship were now inscribed into the nation as a whole. Heinrich von Kleist’s Battle of Hermann —a play that reads like a Quentin Tarantino rewrite of Wilhelm Tell —goes a step further by adding the discursive creation of total enmity. The occupation of ancient Germania...
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