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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Johanna Drucker In our image-saturated culture, can works of imaginative art have any impact? If so, then what is the critical concept within which their effect can be understood? This article makes use of a systems-theory approach in relation to a longer history of modernist criticism, proposing...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 389–403.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., an opportunity for queuers to be monetized. The intellectual origins of these queuing systems in cybernetics theory are considered here, and the economics of queue-jumping are addressed. A case study examines Stansted Airport in London, designed by the well-known architectural firm Foster Associates...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 47–72.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the promise that everyone will win, uses losses to reconfirm the necessity of strengthening the system so that everyone will win, and perpetually displaces the thieves of enjoyment throughout the system as warnings, exceptions, and contingencies. In addition to relying on the fantasy of free trade, neoliberal...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Weltkapital. Globalisierung und innere Schranken des modernen warenproduzierenden Systems . Berlin : Tiamat . Postone M. 1993 . Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Re interpretation of Marx's Critical Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 3. It is clear from other...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 303–314.
Published: 01 November 2019
...: The Politics of Change . New York : Atheneum . Wallerstein Immanuel . 1989 . “ 1968, Revolution in the World-System .” Theory and Society 18 , no. 4 : 431 – 49 . Wallerstein Immanuel . 1995 . “ What Are We Bounding, and Whom, When We Bound Social Resarch .” Social Research 62...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 2012
... a rhetorical figure than a function. recursivity rhetoric media theory Niklas Luhmann systems theory Theodor W. Adorno Homer The Odyssey music anti-Americanism Stanley Kubrick orality mathematics functionalism © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 “In the Wake of the Odyssey...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 March 2012
... ideas of Buckminster Fuller, and a cybernetics rooted in the formulations of Norbert Wiener and reinterpreted through Gregory Bateson's systems-theory ecological approach. Despite its influence, this philosophy has been almost entirely written out of mainstream media theory textbooks. Its most...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 307–326.
Published: 01 November 2007
... recent work, I’ve set about integrating psychoanalysis, the history of ideas and images, systems theory, sociology, urbanism, etc. into a metaparadigm I call General Immunology or, alternatively, Sphere Theory. If one takes the new definition of life (of a life) given by the immunologists...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 November 2022
... practice of treating 3D models as secondary to drawings: “We even dramatically water down the usefulness of the model by producing 2-D blueprints for the factory floor.” 3. The single source of truth (SSOT) is an information systems theory that seeks not existential truths but a pragmatic creation...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
... an autobiographically inflected attempt to short-circuit Jimi Hendrix and Friedrich Hölderlin. If the autopoietic systems theory engineered by Niklas Luhmann (b. 1927) is the last great aria of the so-called skeptical generation that came of age in Germany in the 1950s, the triptych made up of the Musik und Mathematik...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... And this, Kittler would argue, is not just ignorance, it is hypocrisy, because everything from cybernetics to systems theory, from signals analysis to communications theory, is bred and suffused by war. The inexhaustible capacity of the German language to form composite nouns has yielded some strange hybrids...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to Jean-François Lyotard's concept of the differend and the relationship between the observer and the observed in systems theory. Turning to a third screen, we see a digital rendering of Chatonsky as a small child. He speaks of a utopian future, one in which machines communicate seamlessly with plant...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 275–306.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., economics, media theory, systems theory, and cybernetics. In other words, its nonacademic “hybris” (2004: 865) has more in common with Deleuze and Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia than with the Critique of Pure Reason , Being and Time , or Being and Event . Still, his discourse remains...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 237–264.
Published: 01 July 2009
... itself up toward a geopolitical (i.e. historical) reengagement of cybernetics as well as chaos and systems theory – an endeavor beyond the scope of this essay. 5. Interestingly, in Foucault's definition we find the adversarial stance sought by Mouffe: “In effect, between a relationship of power...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 409–430.
Published: 01 November 2011
... represent by means of direct material representations; others by greater abstractions such as symbolic and logical means; or analogically based on a theory where there is no “real” system (inexistent or undiscovered) to represent at all. Models may be simulated by means of computer programs...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... a different story and is an important contribution to the development of theory, both conceptualization and deployment of these concepts. It seems highly significant that the concept of fetishism can be found in his first major studies of consumer society – The Object System (of 1968) (whereas...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 351–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to bring world literature into conversation with world-systems theory: she notes that “although literary studies have an established line of interdisciplinarity with sociology, engagements with world-systems analysis, the field within sociology where questions related to the globalization of capitalism...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens; Willem Schinkel Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals. Für eine Philosophische Theorie der Globalisierung , Sloterdijk Peter , Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp , 2005 , 415 pages, 25.50€ , HB ISBN 3–518–41676–6 © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 Im...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Ryan Bishop Remote sensing using nanosensors continue a long trajectory of multisensory teletechnologies devised by the military for surveillance and weapons verification at a distance. These remote-sensing systems form the basis of current military and corporate plans to monitor all elements...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 November 2012
... its roots in the cybernetic logic of operations research, game theory, cellular automata, and system dynamics, where informatic capture, sampling, optimization, statistical modeling, and simulation promise (or threaten) to map the brain and nervous system, social life, economics, and global war...
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