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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2020
... affection and entails embracing pain, risk, and vulnerability, amid overwhelming violence faced by humans and nonhumans alike. Here, in the chaos of annihilation, new social relations, such as becoming semiwild ourselves, emerge. Within this contingent interspecies nexus, Parreñas argues that present...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Toby Miller This essay examines risk society and moral panic as tools for analyzing the irrationality of the contemporary US, and applies them to the construction of young people as a social problem. Although today’s risk society and moral panic are closely tied to the current economic crisis, I...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of anything other than God. Indeed efforts to institute blanket prohibitions against pictures, or against depicting Muhammad, itself has a taint of shirk , of the heresy of thinking that Muhammad is God, and not his messenger. Of course, one may argue, as Sufis often do (at risk of their lives among...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 239–262.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Max Haiven Walmart is not only the world's single largest retailer and private employer, it is also a crystallization and an agent of a broader paradigm shift toward “securitization”: the convergence of financial and security-oriented logics of risk management. This paper examines the way Walmart...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in making and DIY practices, I argue that Make magazine deploys constructions of creative children to naturalize risk-taking as integral to future innovations, as a response to tensions between risks and responsibility underlying DIY modes of science and technology. Make magazine’s content performs what I...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and by writing a 10 percent buffer into slave-ship contracts they internalized contingency. This codification of risk pressured captains and established a logic for the violence enacted on the ship’s human “cargo.” The Black-Scholes formula of option pricing sought to codify the ocean of risk represented...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of “life politics” ( Giddens 1991 ) and “individualization” ( Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002 ). The article argues that the concept of lifestyle extends beyond the pursuit of leisure and consumption practices and that lifestyle politics involves the expression of individual rights, the management of risk...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2024
... technologies since the 1970s have enabled Las Vegas casino sportsbooks to overwhelm bettors with data abundance. Television and web-based play moved poker at the turn of the millennium away from surprise, chance, and reading people toward probability, risk, and reading data. Around the same time, fantasy...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... an interpandemic response to the novel coronavirus that cuts across borders and against the grain. The first is transnational , to identify from the parallax view of Sydney and Los Angeles emergent risks that defy single-state fixes. The second is transhistorical , to counter efforts by China and the United States...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 212–227.
Published: 01 July 2021
... or destructive, depending on how it is acted on. As the article concludes, Stiegler's pharmacology of cinema invites us to take part in our cinematic cultural becoming through the revival of the figure of the amateur. But it does so at the risk of cultural snobbery. While Stiegler does not condemn the cinematic...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that the future of the HE sector is local rather than global, experiential rather than informational, and that therefore a continued informational approach to the future of HE risks undermining the sector. References Attali Jacques . (1985) 2009 . Noise: The Political Economy of Music . Translated...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 November 2005
... what is a tendency for truth. Virilio's apocalyptic style refuses any kind of nuancing. He argues for general disaster under the impact of technologies. Thus, he does not bring out economic injustices, on the one hand, and, on the other, risks losing credibility by being seen as technophobic. Ville...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... An ecological address to the problems of making sonic culture at a historical turning point at or beyond terminal risk prompts a politics of the commons grounded in a general imagination (modeled on Marx's general intellect). Against earlier modernist claims for both rationality and its failure, sound cultures...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of identity, ownership, interest, and mastery; double-voiced stories of mutual recognition, sub-versions, and alternative realities; and triangulated stories of polyvocal, interactive, risk-taking experimentalism; (3) processual narratives of structural transformation: political economies (agrarian...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 394–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... life risks, and there are others who are able to speculate on our ability to successfully navigate these wagers. In other words, Ascher contends, class in portfolio society is rather like a day at the races: there are, of course, those of us whose lives are precarious and whose life risks implore us...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 359–380.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... Anxieties around identity triggered by Asian immigrants and GM organisms feed into discourses of risk that mark societies – settler societies in particular – being transformed by the forces of global capitalism. The article explores the ways in which the interplay of the forces of globalization...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 173–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... defined by the exhortation that each social subject must competitively manage risk (Martin 2008 ); it is also part of a system where, for the vast majority, the risks are practically unmanageable . As such, in this article we propose the “anxious university” as a site of inquiry, a term that at once...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 348–369.
Published: 01 November 2017
... understanding of financialization to the realm of shadowy elites. In reality, the same neoliberal policies that have hamstrung governments have, as Ulrich Beck (2009) , among others, has noted, also shifted the burden of social risk onto the individual as the social safety net and welfare state have been...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 88–104.
Published: 01 March 2019
... from risky innovations and long-term investments, instead orienting them toward maximizing low-risk profits. In effect, FTSE 100 CEOs had adopted a series of strategies designed to manage financier and super-rich capital investments to gain short-term returns without taking on longer-term risks...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
....” This shift from industrial to finance capitalism is characterized by a changing relationship to difference. While Fordist commodity production privileges standardization as the means of generating maximum profit, finance capitalism measures and commodifies risk, which is to say it requires the opposite...
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