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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that the absence of human subjects allows the filmmaker to articulate a broader discourse on space, so that the films can be described as “spatial fictions.” Keiller, by aligning his work with various strands of utopian thinking on space—from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre and the situationists—forces us...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 377–380.
Published: 01 November 2013
... (“Media Places”); 4. Marc Augé (“Non-Places”); 5. Paul Virilio (“Speed Space”); 6. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (“Space and Becoming”); 7. Bruno Latour (“Common Spaces”); and 8. Étienne Balibar (“Spatial Fictions” or “Fictional Spaces”: fortuitously, the contents and chapter heading don't quite...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 271–273.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of neoliberal policy that now mediate much of our social lives. If anything, this book shows us that our current world order appears to have eclipsed the fictional realties of cyberpunk. Alphin's interest in technology and how it has come to mold and modify human behavior toward models of neoliberal self...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 48–57.
Published: 01 March 2017
... interested in understanding both how we reconstruct the past in the present, and how we construct the present for the future, through shifting private and public narratives. Sometimes this research leads me to construct a fiction or reconstruct a speculative history around documents or fragments, physical...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the fictional Spector Street Estate to the very real Cabrini-Green complex. Cabrini-Green was originally a “slum clearance” project, a product of the spatial violence documented in Harvey Zorbaugh's The Gold Coast and the Slum ( 1929 ), one of the first Chicago urban ethnographies, indeed the product...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2014
... or less all happening at the same time —all over the planet! That idea induces a bit of awe, for me anyway,” he confessed (quoted in National Geographic 2013 ; italics mine). The concept of simultaneity—generally understood as the temporal coincidence of two or more spatially separated events—has...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... This article proposes instead another mode of constructing political narratives, that of figuration. It reclaims three specific figures to demonstrate how it might be possible to build a public sphere of “unwork.” The first is Bazlen, a fictional character of a writer who never wrote; the second...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Ryan Bishop; John Phillips In an attempt to rethink the boundaries that conventionally determine the Cold War period and its fiction, we examine theoretical, historical, and aesthetic spheres that both precede and exceed the Cold War years. We focus on works by H.G. Wells and Richard Powers...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 July 2019
... concludes with footage of the statue in its actual location in Athens, it is for the most part made up of fictionalized substories that cross both time and geographical locale. The first of these is of two farmers who, when plowing the fields, chance upon the buried statue and proceed to dig it out...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 194–207.
Published: 01 July 2022
... works, narrative casts disparate concepts of time—from the novelistic, the testimonial, or the historiographical—into spatial formations that are documented, remembered, or dreamed. Combining verticality with extensive elaborations of floor space, Biscotti's sculptural installations cohere around...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Maria Flood Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light , by Amine Laila , Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2018 , 256 pages, $44.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-299-31580-1 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., a series of images define the spatial and visual politics of the recent pandemic. The fast-paced montage moves through scientific imaging, medical facilities, quarantine sites, makeshift hospital tents, masked faces, and much more. The aim is to offer a visual angle to “entanglement, cooperation...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... not originally captured. The possibilities for rerendering the poor-quality, pixelated image are nevertheless mythologized in science fiction ( Blade Runner [1982]) and crime drama ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [2000–]) as key to identifying a criminal. The apotheosis of this mythologizing takes the form...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... nature of the identity of the banlieusard who wanders through this ill-defined space without any clear sense of who he is, where he is heading, or why he is heading there. Herein we find the perfect representation of the spatial situation and psychological condition of the Roma or contemporary nomad...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... The domain of art and in particular of visual art is becoming the preferred domain in which to reveal and shape these controversies in so far as it captures the pictorial, corporeal, and spatial dimensions of these conflicts. The public sphere, which is meant to provide through art, the sciences...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the spatial logic underwriting Europe’s necropolitical borderscape in order to renegotiate the meaning of community through notions of kinship. Such an effort challenges the erasure of migrant deaths and ultimately the borders that produce them, precisely because it reconsiders “where the line...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of a world —perhaps not the world as such, but the world as it is being made and unmade by the spatial, temporal, racial, linguistic, technological, and imperial drives of hypermodern capitalism, particularly its global, financialized, and algorithmic forms. Scholars of political economy have drawn attention...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 351–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... This has too often led it to take for granted an understanding of the world that can be reduced to mere spatial extension—a sort of “worldwideness” that at worst is indistinguishable from the world of globalization. This has led Ganguly and Cheah to attempt to enhance the theoretical rigor of the world...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of disciplinary perspectives, the collection of articles utilizes the super-rich as a lens to examine political, economic, and cultural shifts with regard to the aesthetic, spatial, and financial dimensions of wealth and power. Questioning the super-rich, we suggest, provides an avenue for the study of power...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... practice? Systems in opposition or systems in convergence, in the form of a state capitalism which increasingly dominates the world (not least in China, largely ignored in classic Cold War fiction)? The uncertainties embodied in these questions are reflected in the texts examined here. They share a sense...
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