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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., in which Jesus says to Mary Magdalene “noli me tangere” (“touch me not”), in order to imagine the emergence of a community of spirit from the social, political, and economic ruin caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrasting this community of spirit to the Chinese Communist Party's Foucauldian response...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . “ Žižek's Pandemic: On Utopian Realism and the Spirit of Communism .” Cultural Politics 17 , no. 1 : 124 – 34 . Goh Irving . 2021 . “ Virus Is Other People .” Cultural Politics 17 , no. 1 : 145 – 49 . Gray Chris Hables . 2021 . “ Virus Is a Language: COVID-19 and the New...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
...John Armitage; Joanne Roberts The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest historical and etymological origins...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... In contrast, some communities in Bajo Atrato express other kinds of concerns as they manifest their intention not to return to these lands because they are now haunted by the spirits of those who suffered a violent death and whose bodies were never buried. Discussions around the effects of war...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the colonization of the lifeworld by system, but, on the contrary, at the problem of the persistence of practices grounded in tradition, charisma, and the substantive rationality of community in a modern administrative system. For better or worse, the Leprechaun/trickster-politician embodies the “spirit” of Irish...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of volunteering time is often required by those who have violated the rules of the social order (“community service” is a sentence given to those who commit a crime) or those who aspire to join a social order (“philanthropy” is required by many social clubs, especially sororities in the United States...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 263–273.
Published: 01 July 2018
... two months to study the Dogon of Sanga, six weeks to study the Kirdi of northwestern Cameroon, and five months to study zar spirit possession in Gondar in Abyssinia. Ethnographers were enjoined to keep a daily journal in the field; Leiris was to do this for the expedition. He transcribed...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of 1968, but we have little understanding of their often subterranean influence on the shape of cultural politics since the 1970s. This essay examines the historical case, and then tries to chart the path of Mao’s influence on educational reform, cultural and community activism, and legislative change...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joff P. N. Bradley Abstract Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation ( Bildung ) and the possibility...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
... about the text. Most notably, this concerns the mobilization of social media, such as Weibo and WeChat, as a basis for social communication and the dissemination of information within and beyond the city. The resultant text is not a diary in the conventional sense but, rather, a vast montage of diverse...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
... or Schlieffen. To begin with, the soldiers of Wotan's furious host are ghosts ( Gespenster ), that is to say, spirits ( Geister ). Wotan, in turn, is in straightforward etymological terms fury ( Wut ). “ Wotan, id est furor,” noted the pious Adam of Bremen around 1100 in his Deeds of Bishops...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
... representation, the “ideological state apparatuses” identified by Louis Althusser (1971) . Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs” was not simply political rhetoric but a real declaration of violence against a specific demographic, namely, the black community, an attack tantamount to a reversal of the ground gained...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., computerization, and models. This is followed by a contribution by Gary Genosko who, through a discussion of Baudrillard's critique of models as forms of self-referential simulation, is attentive to the way in which, for Baudrillard, models of communication foreclose on symbolic exchange by, on the one hand...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
...-fidelity loudspeakers (1950s), the first interactive video game, “Spacewar” (1961), the first television image transmitted by communications satellite—the letters “MIT” (1962), sound synchronization for portable video cameras (1970s), the alcove hologram (1986). The spirit of improvisation and urgency...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., culture, and society. Caught in this period of interval, when the dominant ideas seem bankrupt and new ideas concerning social organization have yet to emerge, thinkers such as Alain Badiou (2012a) and Slavoj Žižek (2010) have championed a return to communism. While Badiou argues that what we need...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... At the “Conquest of Istanbul Special Concert” that was organized for the occasion, state representatives exulted in what the state's Directorate of Communications ( 2020 ) projected as the “joy of conquest.” Of course, the recent, and controversial, reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque has given a new force...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of Gilbert Simondon” is broadly organized to elucidate distinctions that also inform Stiegler’s critical engagement between a reactionary version of community, “which puts individuals in relation, but without founding itself on that which remains pre-individual in the subjects,” and a “real” collective...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 73–78.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of failing totally to grasp his inimitable spirit. In the few short pages of that introduction, we see him driven, from his very first texts onward, by a genuine telos—his aim: to “make intelligible…the proliferation of communications through the media” ( Poster 1988: 1 ). He is the heir to the Adornian...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
... forms an internally consistent system involving people as both agents and subjects of development, and each system tends towards a stifling completeness at its height. Each successive system represents a more primitive need: to communicate, to be at one with the world, to sustain life. As such, each...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 144–157.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the heterogeneity of its object and submitting it to a code. Discourse, Figure (1971) discusses the tension between two regimes of presentation: while the figural designates the visual density of signs, discourse designates the regularity of any coding system that is readable and so abides by the communicative...
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