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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 luxury inequality social fatalism structural violence sacrifice “Unless we know why people need luxuries and how they use them we are nowhere near taking the problems of inequality seriously.” —Mary Douglas, In the Active Voice...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... prove redundant, the critical points in Singapore's social infrastructure are thereby revealed. Every community that relies on the logic of sacrifice (of the vulnerable) eventually sacrifices itself: the specter of death haunts the gesture of sacrifice not just because sacrifice always initiates...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of resistance has led to the death of some prisoners. Their sacrifices are engraved in Palestinian collective memory. The first Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli jails took place in 1968 in Nablus, where the prisoners went on a three-day hunger strike to protest the Israeli beatings and humiliation. Since...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
...), and partly psychotheological (Bourguiba may have found in Abraham’s averted sacrifice of his son a legitimization of serial filicide rather than a commandment against human sacrifice). Throughout the 1990s, Bouzid collaborated with some of Tunisian cinema’s most influential fellow filmmakers, including Férid...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and religious foundations of the empire. On the one hand, Christians did not openly defy the emperor but refused to sacrifice. On the other hand, their courage and renouncement on inner-worldly pleasure attracted disciples and imitators thus producing numerous converts to the new faith. The Emperor...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 42–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in regarding as an axiom the proposition: luxury is enervating . They were not less right in adding: and it corrupts . It destroys the manly energy of the mind by cultivating a taste for mere enjoyment, and a pride in mere frivolity. It kills the spirit of self-sacrifice, without which no society can...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... reading, learning sacrifices impotentiality (ability not to be) so that potentiality can pass seamlessly into actualization—one can “realize one’s full potential.” The goal is to produce evidence of one’s worth in relation to market variables. Simultaneously the student is also defined in terms of debt...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of “sacrifice,” a justifiable cost averaged out in the greater commercial context ( Armstrong 2004 : 173). More than this, the 10 percent figure provided a way to incorporate and internalize a degree of risk into the space of Atlantic capital. Certain spaces such as the West Indies or Africa were profitable...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... does not want his family to suffer in a continuous cycle of violence and offers himself to the justice of the French court where he will be sentenced to death and later executed. Mohamed sees this as his only hope to stop a blood feud that might engulf his entire family and thus sacrifices himself...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2015
... an acceleration of the process, accelerationists, Noys argues, are in fact advocating a kind of masochism. In the time of austerity, when politicians demand that the people “tighten their belts” and make present sacrifices for future generations to pay back the public debt that helped fuel the bonuses...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., that is as the sacrifice or expenditure of “too much.” The one who fails to enjoy fails because he has overdone something; there is something excessive in his relation to the market. A company expanded too fast; it tried to do too much too quickly. Perhaps it failed because it overpaid its workers, overproduced...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of our collective power. . . . against fascists against cops against judges against the state against poverty against repression against prison against the family against school against sacrifices against boredom. ( Balestrini 2011 : 173) The key here is that “matter” in Leopardi...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2014
... weeps for victims of the war regardless of their ethnicity or religion. Equally sympathetic, though for different reasons, is Godard’s portrayal of Olga, a Jewish-Russian-French “suicide bomber,” who sacrifices herself to sniper fire rather than kill innocents. Her bag, we are told, was full...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
... continued to get richer, the middle classes were pumped up on credit, and the rest were excluded in a form of society organized around the principle of sacrifice. In global terms, the West consumed on the basis of the production of the rest, who were pushed ever further into poverty and misery. The latter...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., but it is soluble if we sacrifice just the eight richest people, freeing up enough to go around (Hardoon 2017 ). Of course the kleptocrat class can corrupt enough people to defend themselves, just as the richest nations build walls around their territories and persuade their poorest citizens that it is they who...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... as the world in his final film, The Sacrifice , can only be saved as it is lost – “saved” in this case from a threatened or imagined nuclear Armageddon by an act which the world interprets as a retreat into madness (the film thus confronts the logic of MAD, mutually assured destruction, with a gesture...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 327–343.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to accept code and sacrifice. Like Faust, Sloterdijk’s bastards still submit and sacrifice, to future and to creation. The Luciferians, with aspirations of absolute sovereignty burning in the void of their vacant soul, are no longer willing to accept this. They reserve the right to refuse all code...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 163–181.
Published: 01 July 2014
... freedoms have been undermined and may be abrogated at any moment” ( 2007 : 9). As the American-led War on Terror wore on, taking the fight to terrorists in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, it seemed that Americans at home were also prepared to make sacrifices. Ceding their own democratic rights...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the elaborate ceremonies for the recently departed. People from nearby islands attend the four-to ten-day gathering for rituals, animal sacrifices, feasts, chants, and dances. Lingis and friend are then led by a local guide to the forests where large Tarra trees take on a special function. When the Toraja have...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 130–150.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Friedrich . 1967 . The Communist Manifesto . Translated by Moore Samuel . London : Penguin . Moore Gerald . 2012 . “ Pharmaka from the Gods: Sacrifice and the ‘Art of Politics .’” Lecture given at the Pharmakon.fr Summer Academy, Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, France. https://www.academia.edu...
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