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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
..., suspended acrylic ring. Installation view, Object Gallery, Sydney. Photograph by Keith Saunders. 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...
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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
... tailings, and an ethnocidal death rate for the Native American tribes on whose land the uranium mines were mostly sited and who provided the cheap expendable labor, with little need for costly health protection. The boom was satirized by Hollywood in films like Uranium Boom (1956) (billed as the “inside...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., and unassailable leaders, Joyce built his own machine to generate ambiguity and polysemy: “a vico-clycometer, collideoscope, prototeifoem graph, polyhedron of scripture, meanderthale, a work of doublecrossing twofold truths and devising tail-words” (Joyce, in Eco 1989: 66 ). Joyce was building his machine from...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Archaeology 2007). A figure of a bird, again tiny at less than two centimeters in length, carved from burnt bone and carefully designed with an overlarge tail to balance it, and among the oldest Chinese artifacts, was found and dated to over thirteen thousand years ago. Animal-shaped artifacts—as toys...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 445–464.
Published: 01 November 2011
... 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 in Calle's body of work, The Shadow (1981). Here Calle...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and analytical paper on the find (Kunej and Turk 2001 ) in a collection (Wallin, Merker, and Brown 2001 ), half of which is devoted to “Vocal Communication in Animals.” Communication is only one possible purpose for sound. There is every reason to believe that rattling tail feathers and tail slaps on open...
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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
..., tailings, and discards. The recovery of valuable metals from obsolete media repeats this process, separating complex compounds into two parts, the smaller of which can be folded back into the technosphere's metabolism, the larger of which remains: economically inert but ecologically volatile. In 2021...
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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 (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., 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 threw capitalism into a profound state of crisis...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2006
... 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 by the high-tech system. However, its efficacy was to be tested again months after the military...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2017
... it is matter. Analog video glitches are preeminently artifacts of the machinery of recording and editing. They are evidence of the handling of the tape, of its physical passage through moments of history, and in the case of some glitches (comet tails from tube cameras, horizontal marks traversing the image...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 263–279.
Published: 01 November 2013
... . “ Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State .” Text and Performance Quarterly 25 , no. 2 : 136 – 55 . Carrigan Ana 2001 . Afterword to Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings, by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos . Edited by Ponce de León Juana , London : Serpent's Tail...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and Body Heat .” International Journal of Communication 8 : 2518 – 21 . Purdy Kevin L. 1988 . “ Laboratory Production of High Purity Quartz from Spruce Pine Mica/Clay Tailings and Other Spruce Pine Area Samples .” Minerals Research Laboratory (MRL) Report No. 88-12-P , North Carolina State...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 261–287.
Published: 01 July 2023
... founding vision and its mandate to develop a national collection made it a house of modernism and a literal by-product of the Cold War. The museum embodies the confluence of Taiwan's aesthetic aspiration to modernism at the tail of the martial law era and a Cold War military and industrial complex...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
... is this best expressed than in the philosophy of the gigantic Australian wine producer Yellow 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...
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