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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the thing itself in favor of flat images. In conclusion, the article explains that this is the future of new media culture—the twenty-first-century dystopia of the negative abyss. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 negative abyss absolute surface squared/negative horizon media culture selfie...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... fundamentalism” (47) is set against a negative comparison with Saddam Hussein’s “mystical” (religious) fundamentalism. Technology by implication has become the new tyranny. Second, Virilio alludes to the extended reach of the “squared horizon” in his discussion of its divine properties. Far from a positive...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
...-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time, and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the “squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and negative liberty. Central to this position is recognition of the synergy between current liberal and poststructuralist principles and the “mutual protection and cross-fertilization between these two discourses . . . in the sense that there are significant presuppositional affinities between classical...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2020
... horizons. In a context in which perspectives cast as the most “critical” are also precisely those that are most vulnerable to populism’s nationalist “rush backwards,” it is vital to ensure that a critique of critique does not naturalize its own exclusions by presenting this approach as the necessary...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Deng’s new China and who remembers the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989, when the famous Tank Man faced off against the Chinese state. Although these events were presented in the West as being about the struggle of the Chinese people to oppose a totalitarian state, Old Chen’s memory connects them...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... on Terror, but it is hardly locked there. From New York or London, The-Rest-of-the-World may look like a chess grid, but even in so distant and seemingly squarish a square as this one, as Chua reminds us, other games get played. For Singapore's government (and presumably others as well), he suggests...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
... . Virilio Paul . 2000b . Strategy of Deception . Translated by Turner Chris . London : Verso . Virilio Paul . 2002 . Unknown Quantity . London : Thames and Hudson . Virilio Paul . 2005 . Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy . Translated by Degener Michael...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 260–274.
Published: 01 July 2015
... as it has been traditionally conceptualized (14). In this situation what we traditionally mean by the world has become desubstantialized and “flattened”—enframed in the increasingly “squared horizon” of the vision machine (41). In the standard view this “squared horizon” implies the end of history...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
...-ranging as those of military technology, aesthetics, philosophy, science, and psychology. These discourses tell the same story from different angles. The horizon has either already disappeared into the absolute distance or a spectral remnant of it remains as the target for an action that would reduce...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 307–326.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to the slightest movement picked out against a stable horizon. We might speak here of the origin of difference by the irruption of an unexpected presence or development against a flat horizon. But how are we to orient ourselves in a world where that horizon has begun to shift? How are we to think in a world where...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to critique the fetishism of the Communist Party, and the “cult of personality” in communist states ( Žižek 1996 ). 2 While much of this writing continued the negative reading of the fetish within a social ontology of reified capitalist cultural formations, Adorno in particular attempted to give fetishism...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... fortifications from the history that has produced them but rather to identify something in bunkers that resists assimilation. For Sebald, the bunker itself generates its own dehistoricizing effect as a kind of negative monument that commemorates an absence and a forgotten context. In the face of its concrete...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
... ). In characteristic fashion, Bauman (1997: 120) squares the circle by positing that “the scores of the real and the fictional worlds in the game of certainty are inversely related,” such that “the deeper the uncertainty that rankles the real world, the higher the certainty value of fiction” – as in Eco's...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... But periodization can also be seen at work in the very materiality of events themselves, in sedimented and shifting social forms and imaginaries that give shape to horizons of action and expectation, and make interference possible between what might otherwise be demarcated as unrelated “fields” or “spheres.” Indeed...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
... paper, only when the meaning is void can it be affectingly full. Highlighting the central role of nonsense in Yang's art piece and the performative protests, this article seeks to illuminate the crossroads of politics, performance, resistance, and resilience. Nonsense is not the negative of sense...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and make meaningful the inherent nullity of the world. Not surprisingly, this project is rendered problematic under capitalism, wherein the relentless pursuit of individual profit can only result in a “negative dialectic” tending toward the cul-de-sac of nihilism, or existential boredom by another name...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the stage, the crowd went wild and the eyes of the world were watching the spectacle of Barack Obama becoming president of the United States. Television networks showed the spectacle of people celebrating from Times Square to Atlanta—and even throughout the world. There were special celebrations...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 327–356.
Published: 01 November 2007
... and Engels’s dogma that all history is the history of class struggles; it is also far more in keeping with the empirical evidence. Its generality extends further insofar as it encompasses both natural and human (“labor power”) energies; it squares better with the facts in that it rejects the bad historicism...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
... algae in Yangcheng Lake, the home of mitten crabs. Yangcheng Lake, located in Suzhou, serves as the source of drinking water for the residents of the lower Yangtze River region. Aquaculture in this area mostly deploys offshore cultivation methods, involving floating net cages that are roughly one square...
