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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
...; they prefer to “luxuriate” rather than indulge in luxury goods. However, this perception of luxury is connected to hierarchical inequality and a sense of social fatalism that has been reinvigorated through new experiences with competitive inequality, neoliberal pollution, and the false promises of meritocracy...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sean Cubitt Abstract COVID-19 is now part of the resources out of which any future must be made. The temptation is to curl back into private misery and fatalism. The opportunity is to further the design of neonationalist, neoliberal returns to pre-1917 norms of extreme wealth, extreme poverty...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of this twenty-first-century cosmo(s)politan world, the “socially responsible” citizen who seeks international peace and security, on which the universal dissemination and perpetuation of democracy has been henceforth predicated as determined by the American state war machine, for all states and men...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Baudrillard developed the notion of fetishism to great critical effect, he did not theorize it or apply it systematically. © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 fetishism sign object symbolic exchange 9/11 fatal theory If it was possible, in the past, to speak of the fetishism of the commodity...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
...) . Baudrillard J. 2007 . In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or The End of the Social , 2nd edition . New York : Semiotext(e) . Baudrillard J. 2009 [2007] . Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? Calcutta : Seagull Books . Baudrillard J. 2010a [2008] . Carnival...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... )? Or would it end more poetically, that is, fatally. In this version, DSK’s “laughable” replacement, François Hollande, is elected president of France and inaugurates a government of “parity.” Would it not be preferable to read a happy ending into the displacement from perversion of both Sarkozy and DSK...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... to redemption, the knot that produces revolutionary action. In the mourning plays of Benjamin's work on tragedy, revolutionary action occurs when the indecision (or inability to discover meaning) of the Baroque tyrant leads to the collapse of the social order. Thus, the production of a new symbolic matrix...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
...” that takes us from the local accident – of the kind involved in the Challenger space shuttle or the Concorde supersonic – to the global accident involving ecology – of the Chernobyl kind. And this merely portends the fatal confusion between “terrorist attack” and “accident” – of the kind involved...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., our Virilian analysis of RoboCop also suggests that the RoboCop/ Murphy solution is not one that Virilio could embrace in either of its mythic forms. As a solution to the displacement of humans, the colonized body of RoboCop/Murphy, fatally flawed by its own original accidents, would be as false...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Mike Gane Neoliberalism involves significant state interventions in the economic, social, and cultural spheres—but not in the way embraced by classic liberals and socialists (external planning and administration); neoliberalism instead bases its legitimation on the myth that institutions...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288–292.
Published: 01 November 2017
... correlates of the pattern of resistance. The lesson is that there is something presocial to the deeper humanity revealed in the “animal pity” of resistance. Morality is a social invention imposed on something preexisting and innate in the individual and is not, as Émile Durkheim suggested, constructed...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
... the rehearsed racial parataxis of American politics—white and black, West and rest—to the very fiction it is, but he observes with near fatalism how illusory such a return might be. “The counter-cultural voice of black Atlantic popular music has faded out,” he says. “If any oppositional spirit endures...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to the various deaths (physical, political, and social) experienced at the border. These dynamics between inside and outside, bios and zoe , life and death, are conjoined in the topology of the border, warranting extraordinary and often fatal distinctions concerned with the disposability of life. In fact...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and is unsurprisingly present in revivals of nationalist and racist movements. What all of these examples point to, nevertheless, is the resurgence of interest in “the new” (even if the radically new means a return to the radically old, or a utopian golden age). Soviet socialism’s ostensible collapse might well...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the discourse of automobility, they also are shaped by other cultural dynamics, most notably contemporary discourses of landscape, affect, and necropolitics. W. J. T. Mitchell argues that understanding landscape means thinking of landscape as “a dynamic medium”—“as a process by which social and subjective...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in the contemporary world, where motivated social change no longer seems possible, or is at least remote. Capital’s overwhelming imperative to consume renders hope of radical or wide-scale social, economic, and political change seemingly impossible, so that the legacy of Francis Fukuyama’s (1992) end of history...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 203–222.
Published: 01 July 2007
... could be loosely labeled as “Canon-Mocking Literature” (Da Hua Wen Xue), which is in turn part of the new “Canon-Mocking Culture.” 4 In this essay, I will first outline the social, historical, and cultural background of the rise of Canon-Mocking Literature, with special focus on the changing cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 175–202.
Published: 01 July 2007
... end up with. There is some debate about whether these parties exist anywhere apart from this book. How much social reality and literature overlap seems to be central to the fascination with this book in the American media. The question of young adult books dealing with explicit oral sexuality seems...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 255–278.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on a communicative strategy of encoding and decoding that bears strong resemblance to an esoteric hermeneutic, but one played out across social media. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 conspiracism fan studies esotericism produsage QAnon Hillary Clinton and Katy Perry drink the blood...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 73–78.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of Henri Lefebvre or the early Tel Quel group into the field of social semiology, an atypical Habermasian or a “fatalistic” postmodernist, successor in the field of commercial signs to the projects of Derrida or the Nouvelle Critique on the “self-referentiality of language,” and by turns prime target...
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