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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 158–169.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Five Car Stud , suggesting that attention to this aspect of Lyotard's writings might allow us to avoid some of the impasses created by the emphasis upon the sublime aspect of aesthetic experience. Reading Pacific Wall in terms of the problems set out in Lyotard's Libidinal Economy , I contend that one...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... In particular, we return to Immanuel Kant and his theory of the beautiful and the sublime to make a case that connections between capitalism and democracy rest on an unexamined aesthetic of the beautiful. To sever this link, and thus to push democratic struggles for equality toward a communist horizon, we...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Gallery, New York. Shot with infrared Kodak Aerochrome film, Mosse’s Enclave became a locus for debates about contemporary aesthetic strategies, especially within photography, and the ethics of deploying the shock of the sublime to elicit both empathy and questioning, exposing the viewer/participant...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 July 2012
... poetics and politics of converting the writing subject into a medium of worlded multicultural otherness and/or the consolidation of selfhood and cultural-political belief in such settings. In Cold War contexts threatened with the allure and bad faith of orientalism and the romantic sublime, the stylistic...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the retreat of the forms of space and time. Rather than a crisis of reason or cognitive discourse pure and simple, Lyotard situates the crisis in terms of Kantian aesthetics, as the loss of the immediate community of feeling in the beautiful and the advent of an “anaesthetics” of formlessness in the sublime...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of vulnerability, an expression of pain. The art of Mohau Modisakeng likewise pulls the politics of cool into the gallery and creates new possibilities for the sublimation of righteous anger. Through iterations of cool, Black masculine subjectivities are discussed as in tension with the dream of decolonization...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... at the Bibliothèque Doucet contain lecture notes from courses Lyotard gave on the sublime almost without interruption from 1980 to 1991, the first at Vincennes, the last at the Collège International de Philosophie. See Lyotard 1980–89 . 3. This book has just been reissued (with the first-ever English...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
... , while the two last chapters shift to his later concern with the sublime and with affect. Bamford structures his reading of these “periods” in Lyotard's thought with reference to an exhibition, Les immatériaux ( The Immaterials ), of which the philosopher was appointed curator, instead of the expected...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2011
...John Armitage © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 Joy Garnett is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. Garnett's work is associated with what she calls the “apocalyptic sublime,” a metaphysical condition of combined astonishment and terror in the presence of huge natural...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
...–65) read Kant's Critique of Judgment , being drawn to its project of disengaging sensible experience from the exigencies of signification. Of particular interest here would be Cage's relationship to the Kantian sublime. Cage never broached the topic in so many words. Correspondingly, only a few...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 212–218.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the Sublime,” that the feeling of the sublime is precisely the one given by the “without form.” “He” then proposes to call this mode of presence matter . “You” couldn't care less about that, obviously.…In the “Anamnesis” chapter, the question is explicitly related to that of Discourse, Figure . It is once...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 July 2013
... aesthetics” (2009: 27), as a way of paying tribute to the work of art. It is here that it is necessary to situate Lyotard's concern with the sublime, with the sublime sentiment called forth by certain paintings—a concern that runs throughout his later writings on art from the 1980s onward (see...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
... in the rate of profit, and short-term profit-motivation, cognitive capitalism so captures the energy of the consumer that it blocks the sublimating processes of energy that constitute, for depth psychology, the condition of work, art, family, love, and the social bond in general. Hence the importance of Freud...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764), genius, the sublime, and duty toward duty are attached to masculinity, while sympathy, the beautiful, and duty toward being an aesthetic object are the ends of femininity. As Observations has it: “The fair sex has as much understanding as the male, but it is a beautiful...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the Kantian sublime. 8 The sublime, in Lyotard's hands, puts the entire aesthetic realm in touch with a radically nondialectizable negativity that, in his view, is what calls for thought by keeping events coming, always in a sense “out of nowhere.” This radically negative resource, with respect to which I...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... And this has to be done in a context where what I call the cultural industries – which attempt to harness attention and in fact destroy that attention – use these technologies in a way that produces a lot of stupidity, much lowering of the level of intelligence, of the level of sublimation, of the level...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and the Postmodern Sublime . Oxford : Peter Lang . Sloterdijk Peter . 1998 . Blasen . Vol. 1 of Sphären . Frankfurt : Suhrkamp . Sloterdijk Peter . 1999 . Globen . Vol. 2 of Sphären . Frankfurt : Suhrkamp . Sloterdijk Peter . 2004 . Schäume . Vol. 3 of Sphären . Frankfurt...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 219–226.
Published: 01 July 2013
...—Francis's work is characterized by large, loose areas of color and thin applications of paint, Appel's by sculptural paint massing and defined shapes—for both, color and gesture are important. In Karel Appel: A Gesture of Colour , Lyotard outlines his concerns about the sublime, chromatic intensity...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... impasse that I am naming the “struggle for epokhē ” (struggle for a path to sublimation) that is simultaneously a crisis of spirit and crisis of the savoirs— the crisis of knowledge as such. I think that today education is destroyed not only in the university or in the school, but in the family...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on the altar are also returned to the days spent weaving these silks and embroidering them with flowers in gold and silver threads. The churches of Cajamarca are theaters for ceremonies and processions, theaters of sensuality and of the sublime. Figure 2 The room of the Inca’s ransom Figure 2...
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