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A Return to the Concept: The Structuralism of the Cahiers pour l’Analyse
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 244–262.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in Althusser’s political and intellectual strategy a year after the publication of For Marx and Reading Capital . Cahiers pour l’Analyse represents, then, the most complete example of the politicization of structuralism on the eve of May 1968. Yet it also had a focus on political philosophers...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and representations; mechanisms and structures; experiences and identities. The empirical and conceptual insights of the contents are then highlighted, with regard to the significance of discourses of legitimacy, namely, those of meritocracy, civility, and luxury; the intersections of race and class that underpin...
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Power, Secrecy, Paranoia: Technologies of Governance and the Structure of Rule
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of state power. Paranoia remains a political phenomenon that calls for analysis at the level of the structure of rule. The essay explores one approach to paranoia as a political category through an ideal-typical model drawn from Elias Canetti's classic 1960 text Crowds and Power . It concludes...
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The Cold Model of Structure: Friedrich Kittler Interviewed by Christoph Weinberger
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 375–384.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler media studies structuralism Germany Christoph Weinberger: Does your orientation toward music, mathematics, and the alphabet in ancient Greece present a continuation or a departure from your work of the 1980s? Is there a “turning” in Friedrich...
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Fragment of blanket 8, “Top Manta Creative Struggles,” a brand and a busine...
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in Following the Fish: An Exhibition, a Collection of Conversations, a Call to Action
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 13 Fragment of blanket 8, “Top Manta Creative Struggles,” a brand and a business structure based on the nonexploitation of people and natural resources. Courtesy of Flavio Coddou / IRL.
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Prefigurative Politics at Bread and Puppet Theater
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as a site of tension in prefigurative political theory, between creative world building and alternative decision-making structures. B&P fosters a powerful lived experience of prefigurative politics. The political process of envisioning alternative realities took place through performance, puppets...
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Fatalist Luxuries: Of Inequality, Wasting, and the Antiwork Ethic in India
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the limelight. In the process, questions of production, inequality, and reproduction of social structures have been overshadowed. Critical reappraisal of luxury in anthropological theory can paradoxically show us a way out of this identity trap, since luxury, unlike other consumer goods, demands that we think...
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The Fat Imaginary in Trump's America: Matter, Metaphor, and Animality
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Christopher E. Forth Materially as well as metaphorically, fat is seemingly ubiquitous in Donald Trump’s America. Rather than simply a rude comment to make about someone’s appearance or capacity for self-control, the word refers to a form of matter and style of metaphor that helps structure...
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Get Unstuck!: Pandemic Positivity Imperatives and Self-Care for Women
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of a global pandemic that has affected women disproportionally, and when structural injustices and inequalities have been made ever more visible, positivity and individualized self-care interpellations to women flourish, anger is muted, and critiques of structural inequality are largely silenced. Thus...
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Force and Vulnerability in Philosophy and Science: Husserl, Derrida, Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that acknowledges Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl, Theodor Adorno, and Martin Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler’s attempt to mobilize the structure of the trace in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida results in a profound challenge to a technics that can be regarded as a powerful complement to biological evolutionary...
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Baudrillard's Radicalization of Fetishism
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and object-fetishism. These are both steps in the radicalization of Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, drawing on freud's idea of fetishism as a perverse structure. The article notes that Baudrillard provided inventories of fetishism at regular intervals in his writings, and that these remained curiously...
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Revealing Power: Masked Protest and the Blank Figure
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 263–279.
Published: 01 November 2013
... dynamics that have traditionally structured public space. It analyzes the different ways in which masks create transformative in-between spaces that signify the presence of a deliberately unspecified absence and therefore facilitate the possibility of thinking differently. It concludes that this strategic...
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in Not / A: Fragments of History, Memories, and (Geo)Politics in the Works of Green Zeng
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figures 5–7 Mirrors within Mirrors (left) is a video installation first exhibited at Chan + Hori Contemporary (Singapore) in 2018. It is the first stage of a larger work in progress and is inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. It employs a multiple-narrative structure that provides
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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
...Dalia Nassar; Margaret Barbour Abstract This article develops the notion of the “embodied history of trees” and articulates its conceptual and ethical implications. It demonstrates how trees literally embody their environment in their very structure and argues that trees express their environments...
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A Roundtable on Collectivism: Building Popular Power from within and across Geopolitical Souths
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 392–408.
Published: 01 November 2023
... political “Souths.” One of the central questions that this article raises is how to create diverse and heterogeneous strategies for the sustainability and creation of the collective spirit during the conjunctural and structural crises of the Global South and the exhaustion that it produces among those...
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Mysticism and the Postanarchist Symbolic
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 242–259.
Published: 01 July 2024
... insurrection of the self and project of structural renewal. More specifically, it draws from Meister Eckhart's conceptualization of the Godhead to argue that the positioning of the Godhead as the primary master signifier for the political community can contribute toward the production of an alternative...
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The Uses of Financial Literacy: Financialization, the Radical Imagination, and the Unpayable Debts of Settler Colonialism
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 348–369.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Max Haiven This article is a contribution to critiques of the mainstream trends in financial literacy education and argues that they typically produce a profound financial illiteracy by obfuscating the systemic and structural dimensions of debt, financial hardship, and the patterns...
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“There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... secret,” a structuring secrecy beyond the logic of revelation – this article questions transparency's link with democracy and its cultural place today as a force of good. Through Derrida's work we must face the proposition that although the choice between secrecy and transparency is presented as one...
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Concrete Ambivalence: Inside the Bunker Complex
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... but to the secrecy and passive aggression of the Cold War. As such, the bunker as a site of power in much of the work discussed is approached not merely as an historical artifact but as a deeply ambivalent structure that speaks to contemporary anxieties regarding the location and accountability of the systems...
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In Defense of Decolonial Philistinism: Jameson, Adorno, and the Redemption of the Hatred of Art
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2017
... incomprehensible, illegitimate, or self-defeating but manifest a certain truth—albeit a partial one—regarding the structural guilt, complicity, and inconsequentiality of art and culture in a racially divided society such as South Africa. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Key to such work of contextual...
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