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Based on a True Story
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 381–390.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Stephen Andrews © BERG 2005 PRINTED IN THE UK 2006 In the days following the bombings on the London Underground in 2005, I was astounded by the telling and retelling, and then the amending and re-amending, of that “story”: the killing of a Brazilian man, Jean de Menezes. What...
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in Collective Crafting in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Journey with Ruangrupa from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts to Documenta Fifteen in Kassel
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 11 Ruangrupa, “THE KUDA: The Untold Story of Indonesian Underground Music in the 70s,” rock music festival, Jakarta, 2012.
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Tree Stories: The Embodied History of Trees and Environmental Ethics
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 128–147.
Published: 01 March 2023
... uninhabitable. Trees also populate our imagination. Many of us first become interested in trees through legends and traditional stories. Forests loom large in European folklore, whether as dark and fearful places, magical wonderlands, or safe havens. They are almost always figured as sites of human...
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Surviving the Ordinary: Telling Stories of Endurance under Capitalism Detached from Neoliberal Narrativity
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 July 2023
...; a working-class man tells his story to an educated, middle-class woman. Passionate about exposing the violence embedded in Ah Hock's ordinary life and his struggles to make ends meet, rather than the visceral, “eventful” act of violence he commits, Su-Min publishes a narrative nonfiction book based on her...
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Planetary Stories Before and After Geoengineering
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... offered by most opponents). Design Earth has done something very valuable by producing stories “before geoengineering” that provoke such thoughts—five stories that might be told “after geoengineering,” by distant-future beings we can only faintly imagine, about the crucial choices made by humanity...
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Reproductive Exile in Global Dubai: South Asian Stories
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of “high-tech” services. In this article, reproductive exile to global Dubai will be explored, along with three South Asian stories highlighting infertile couples' dreams of making a test-tube baby. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 assisted reproductive technologies fertility tourism...
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Changing Palestine–Israel Ecologies: Narratives of Water, Land, Conflict, and Political Economy, Then and Now, and Life to Come
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
... beyond zero-sum games; urban public goods and infrastructures; medical services and distributed care; animals and biodiversity and the need to pay attention to feedback that signals our inability to achieve perfect control and hence dependence on one another; (2) perspectival topoi: single-eyed stories...
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in Pale Face, Red Mask: Racial Ambiguity and the Imitation of “American Indian” Facial Expressions
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Published: 01 November 2006
Figure 1 Grey Owl, portrait by Karsh. Source : Dickson, L. 1976 Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of Grey Owl London, Sphere Books
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The Vanishing Native: Torture and Settler Colonialism in Transnational French Cinema
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Imed Ben Labidi The thematic foci of the Franco-Algerian war films of decolonization have shifted in the last few decades from evoking triumphalist discourses and redemptive fictional narratives to producing powerful transnational antiwar stories. While being critical of the violent history...
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Detective Fiction and “The Original Crime”: Baudrillard, Calle, Poe
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 445–464.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Bran Nicol Baudrillard appeared uninterested in the detective story and his work barely features in studies of the genre. This essay argues, however, that analyzing detective fiction from a Baudrillardian perspective – concentrating in particular on how the genre is structured around a tension...
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Media Poll-Itics in Canadian Elections: A Report on Accelerated Public Opinion
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2007
... that politicians get elected not just because of what they say, or how they say it, but when they say it. Within the accelerated serial mix of public opinion, stories, commentary, and events, political support and momentum were articulated with the politicization of affect to shape the outcome. While preelection...
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Among the Blind
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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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News, Celebrity, and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Michael Jackson Verdict
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of circulation and feedback of information have increased dramatically. These tendencies have given rise to an effect I term vortextuality, whereby major news stories have the power to dominate the news media to such an extent that all attention appears, temporarily, to be directed towards them. Editorials...
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A Forest, a Maze, a Garden, a City: Psychiatry's Architectural Turn
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
... program of the early twentieth century, set out in Garden Cities of To-Morrow , is taken as exemplary here. The article ends with a reading of Clive Barker's 1985 short story “The Forbidden” and of the film Candyman , which it gave rise to, whose shared sense of horror at the visceral consequences...
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Why Look at Toy Animals?: Play, Protopolitics, and the Postnatural
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... The child's toy and media environment is playfully zoomorphic, populated with artificial animals, from toys and stories to virtual pets and video-game characters, a new simulacral and postnatural trajectory in the descendance of the artificial animal and its playful and play-like behaviors. References...
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All In: Derivative and Financialization in Sports Betting
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2024
... sports and management-based video games mirrored financial markets in transforming athletes and leagues into derivatives, that is, disaggregated units that could be reassembled in new digital permutations. Each story helps position contemporary online sports betting within a longer historical arc...
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Žižek's Pandemic: On Utopian Realism and the Spirit of Communism
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Mark Featherstone Abstract In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical story of the resurrection...
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“The Conspiracy of Imbeciles,” Reloaded: Baudrillard and the DSK Affair
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... The DSK affair is doubly contextualized in relation to its reception on both sides of the Atlantic: in (academic) North American feminists’ critique of French cultural exceptionalism and in French (real-time) resolutely nonhermeneutic coverage of “the already told story.” Both readings of the affair...
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Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and the Broadcast Boundaries of Racialized Heteronationalism, according to the FBI
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 202–216.
Published: 01 July 2016
... on the racial transgressions of jazz pleasures. In telling this story, I further develop contemporary scholarship on the concept of racialized heteronationalism as nascent in surveillance and the state, as well as demonstrate the long history of US enforcement agencies’ reliance upon race and sexuality...
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The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Gilbert Simondon Human progress cannot be measured by what people produce but by the stages of production. The shift from the development of language in the classical period to religion in the medieval and technical progress after the Renaissance does not tell the whole story. Each of these domains...
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