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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1 Unknown Fields at work in the London Sculpture Workshop. The mud taken from a radioactive tailings lake in Inner Mongolia contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material.
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Figure 4 Baotou, China, 2014: film still from Rare Earthenware (2014) showing Unknown Fields collecting radioactive mud from the tailings lake at the outflow of Baogang Iron and Steel Corporation. The mud was used to craft the set of three ceramic vessels.
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 1 Unknown Fields at work in the London Sculpture Workshop. The mud taken from a radioactive tailings lake in Inner Mongolia contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material. ...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of their teeth. By Oberon there have been two more and almost a dozen roos. Some we stop at, others you can just tell it's far too late; or there's a truck on your tail, or the road's so narrow there's no space to pull over, let alone any place to run. Near the turnoff to Jenolan, dusk coming...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 489–494.
Published: 01 November 2012
...; its tail flows into the cavity like a river of blood. In another work, Headlong ( Figure 4 ), I combine digitally collaged and hand-painted warriors based on an illustration in Firdawsī's Shãhnãmeh , or Book of Kings . This poetic epic of nearly sixty thousand verses tells the mythical...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... discovery, the uranium rush had not yet turned into a boom, but retained the mystique and kudos of the Manhattan Project. After 1952, the boom got seriously underway, with massive investment in mines, terrible ecological consequences from the radioactive tailings, and an ethnocidal death rate for the Native...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
... into a pursuit for knowledge. Socrates, Nietzsche says, takes one “in contact with those extreme points … where he stares into the unfathomable. When to his dismay he here sees how logic coils around itself at these limits and finally bites its own tail” ( Nietzsche 1995: 54 ). Socrates, for Nietzsche...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 445–464.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... Baudrillard is uninterested in placing Suite vénitienne in any kind of cultural or generic context, yet it clearly deploys the kind of tracking/tailing motifs that are a centerpiece of “private-eye” fiction. Its implicit parallel with the detective genre is brought out more clearly by its counterpart...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 March 2012
... be talking about YourTube and not YouTube. References Alexa. 2010a. “Google.com.” www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com . Accessed October 10, 2010 . Alexa 2010b. “YouTube.com.” www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youtube.com . Accessed October 10, 2010 . Anderson Chris . 2006 . The Long Tail: How...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 459–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... into functionality, accelerating processing speeds or aiding miniaturization. But often the larger volume is the collateral of unstable and toxic leftovers, tailings, and discards. The recovery of valuable metals from obsolete media repeats this process, separating complex compounds into two parts, the smaller...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of production and extensive use of time-and-motion studies, so that the relation between socially necessary labor time and value could be gauged precisely and quantitatively. However, at the tail end of the Fordist era, between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, the burgeoning power and militancy of workers...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2008
... . Trans. Wirth Louis Shils Edward . London : Routledge . Marcos Subcomandante de Leon J.P. (eds). 2000 . Our Word is our Weapon . London : Serpent’s Tail . Notes from Nowhere Collective (eds). 2003 . We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 263–279.
Published: 01 November 2013
... . Afterword to Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings, by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos . Edited by Ponce de León Juana , London : Serpent's Tail . Castells Manuel 2007 . “ Communication, Power, and Counter Power in the Networked Society .” International Journal of Communication 1...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2006
... agency with branches in all the residential estates throughout the island. It would appear that the IT system was in place at the tail end of the epidemic ( Chua 2004: 196 ), and it remains unclear how many of the nearly 6,000 quarantined during the three-month period of the epidemic were contact-traced...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of history, and in the case of some glitches (comet tails from tube cameras, horizontal marks traversing the image) marks of moments of recording and of playback. Disintegration of the image is evidence of the integrity of the tape itself as inhabitant of history. The deliberate production of glitches...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Pine Mica/Clay Tailings and Other Spruce Pine Area Samples .” Minerals Research Laboratory (MRL) Report No. 88-12-P , North Carolina State University , mrl.ies.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/88-12-P_Lab_Prod_HP_Qtz.pdf . Reid T. R. 1984 . The Chip: How Two Americans...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Tail, where, Tyler Colman (2010 : 105) writes, “to maintain the consistency of the brand, the winery also had to intervene in the winemaking process to override the influence of terroir. ” What better example of the systematic erasure of the nonhuman agency of wine’s materiality, within the implicit...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 162–183.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., as part of an ideological superstructure, nor at the tail end of it, as a commodity terminating in (unproductive) individual consumption. Rather, music by this account is situated squarely within production, as a means of production. More precisely, such an interpretation construes music as an instrument...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 58–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... (in Inferno ). For Terryworld , this classical connection becomes explicit: an open door, seemingly within a derelict building, and “Enter Hell” messily graffitied above an arrow pointing in (and the next image: a naked Richardson as a devil, red-eyed from the flash, the hanging tail perpendicular to his...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that the politics of agitation is for hippies and Jacobins but not the work of genuine, good faith participatory democracy. This is not to deny, however, their use of what Kenneth Burke ([1937] 1984 : 260–62) describes as the “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” tactic when seeking to defend the rare instance...
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