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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2022
... subjects intentionally deploy failure as a productive and playful means of self-articulating while opening up reductive and essentialist notions about gender, intersectionality, representation, and belonging. 1. There have been and continue to be transmasculine, transfeminine, gender-nonconforming...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... culture, a project that demands openness to cross-disciplinary perspectives and a willingness to look beyond our usual focus on the representation of human bodies. 1 After all, in Trump’s America fat is not simply a rude comment to make about someone’s appearance or capacity for self-control...
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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 (2005) 1 (3): 317–328.
Published: 01 November 2005
... references Figure 1 , Figure 2 , Figure 3 . Stuart Hall proposes a theorization of identity as “a form of representation which is able to constitute us as new kinds of subjects, and thereby enable us to discover places from which to speak” (Hall cited in Ang 1999: 544 ). The politics of self...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and even required to “perform” their exclusion? What possibilities are there for what Michael Welch (2011) has called “reversing the optics,” for tactics of counterveillance, alternative forms of representation and self-representation? And to what extent have such possibilities already been recuperated...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . 2019 . How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance . London : Hachette UK . Thompson Krista . 2015 . Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Thumim Nancy . 2012 . Self-Representation...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 359–384.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of modernity and apprehensions of a shared past was particularly fraught within the discourse of decolonization. This vexed question – of the place of “tradition” within novel modes of self-representation – served as the historical ground of artistic modernism in India. It has been argued for some time now...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
... he excluded as by what he included in his rational self-representation. History shows that this humanist vision of the subject also justified violent and belligerent exclusions of the sexualized, racialized, and naturalized “others”—women and LBGT+, indigenous people, animals and earth others...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
... for the decentralization of identity in virtual communities, Turkle appears to be skeptical about our overreliance on technology for care, communication, and self-representation. Turkle implicitly attempts to recontextualize Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 78–89.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of an aesthetic self-experience , and pomp is a product of symbolic self-representation . This is one of the important differences in talking about luxury. Adorno, too, works with this difference. Luxury is blind to a special sort of experience, which is always possible in a private world, without showing...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... mystical spirituality of Thomas Müntzer – in his self-representation as the “new Daniel” in 1524 – exemplifies a political theology dominated by the thrust to purge godless leaders and false teachers ( Kirwan 2007: 79–80 ). Luther saved his reformation of Christianity from Müntzer's social revolution...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 237–264.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of politics, is arguably not even the key transformation that makes visible the crisis of representation. This critique of the weakness of traditional institutional forms and methods of organization is not new. It has often been observed that the neoliberal injunction to self-actualize (intensified...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 March 2005
... – a development that I find both fascinating and worrying. What the critical and searching commentaries in the wake of his expose offer is a valuable discussion of the ecology and limits of conventional anthropological representation (and its self-presentations) in highly charged places like Guatemala...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 121–137.
Published: 01 March 2012
... riche class, and generally low culture). Yet it can also refer to intentional self-exoticization as a marker of imagined Balkan temperament and mentality, whose spontaneity, passion, and emotion stand in contrast to the anemic and lifeless West. It is precisely this representational and conceptual...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the twenty-first century, namely, the debate over the world of the virus or the development and meaning of the cultural world of the self and the causes and diseases in mammals and birds of the coronavirus, particularly since 2019. In exploring philosopher Martin Heidegger's ( 1968 , 2002 , 2012a , 2012b...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of representation and anti-representation are taken on board” (1993b: 16). There is an extent to which Baudrillard’s proclamations intersect with feminist critiques of makeover culture, which identify the all-encompassing reach of self-improvement rhetoric. Baudrillard (1993b : 15) goes even further, however...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
... managing oneself.” However, as happiness is constructed as a mandatory “individual engineering project,” more recently, female influencers have emerged who go against standards of beauty taken as oppressive. They embrace other physiques as forms of self-expression and finding joy, mostly the “big” body...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... Through the constructions of elites as “just like us,” as “self-made,” or as benevolent and “kind parents,” the very machinations of capitalism and power on which their status and wealth is drawn become hidden from view. And, as Littler notes, these representations become particularly pronounced when...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 465–476.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and representation turns into presentation. His answer is twofold: power takes over, since every decision appears to point towards a self-evident answer, embedded in the very necessity of the system of integral reality; and the subject is turned into a stupid zombie that continues to live as if it were free even...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., I examined how these themes reverberated in the representations in relation to two frames: Vulgarity (lacking decorum, refinement, self- control and otherwise morally or aesthetically illegitimate vis- à- vis conventions of the Western bourgeois cultural canon) Civility (demonstrating...
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