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“The Target Is the People”: Representations of the Village in Modernization and U.s. National Security Doctrine
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
... zones – Lebanon (1982), Tripoli (1986), Manila (1989), Panama City (1989), Kuwait (1991), Los Angeles (1992), Mogadishu (1994) – although there was a trend, evident in the 1990s, to target specific neighborhoods as functionally, ethnographically, or politically distinct, a village within a city, e.g...
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Urban Studies and the Targeting of Cities
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2006
... exemplifying interconnections between war and modern urbanism, the second chapter details one key way in which we might consider cities – rather than national armies – as sites/sights of warfare. Conceptualizing the “city-as-target,” Ryan Bishop and Gregory Clancey highlight the role of war-like technologies...
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Just Targets
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that targeting, in several interrelated and specified senses, must be regarded as intrinsic to urban processes, and that with intensifications of these processes during the last 150 years or so, issues of targeting and questions of the just in relation to cities have become increasingly urgent. With growing...
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The “Politics of the Faceless”: Proliferated Drone's-Eye Views of Forced Migration
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 112–135.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., which require confrontation with histories of racialization and colonialism. It seeks to cultivate “aesthetic literacy” in drone journalism by addressing the way humanitarian events are being revisualized through remote technologies that are underpinned by histories of targeting and racialization...
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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
... materials targeting Indigenous people in Canada largely confirms this approach, it also gives us clues as to what another, better financial literacy might look like. The article concludes by asking what financial literacy education for the radical imagination might look like and what the further...
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The Return of the Art and Technology Lab
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... short-lived and the targets of considerable criticism, not least because of their connections with military and corporate clients, in the twenty-first century the legacies of CAVS and A&T have been unproblematically reclaimed. Contemporary art and tech projects, we argue, are in danger of succumbing...
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A Short History of the Searchlight
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 384–390.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on the ability of the searchlight to pinpoint objects, isolate them from their surroundings, and thus target them for destruction. © 1994 Wilhelm Fink GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG. All rights reserved by and controlled through Wilhelm Fink GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG, Paderbom 1994 Friedrich Kittler...
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Horsepower Hubris
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 489–494.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Susanne Slavick Horsepower Hubris presents hand-painted digital prints that examine vehicles as both weapons and targets of war. Painted motifs and passages borrowed primarily from Persian miniatures combine with contemporary media images of wartime destruction, exposing what has been lost...
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Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American de-Urbanization, 1930–1945
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Gregory Clancey This article is one step toward an urban history of the United States that foregrounds “emergency” as a clearing device. American cities were strategically targeted during the sustained mid-twentieth century depression and war by a complex of groups – the Federal government...
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Prolegomenon to a Right to Disappear
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... regulated. We are made as if citizens of it. The figure of the citizen today, less than being a figure of the future of the human or of future freedom of the human, is more a figure of citizen-as-target. How does one begin to assert “a right to disappear” against this subjectivity then? This article argues...
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Among the Blind
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
...-ranging as those of military technology, aesthetics, philosophy, science, and psychology. These discourses tell the same story from different angles. The horizon has either already disappeared into the absolute distance or a spectral remnant of it remains as the target for an action that would reduce...
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Protesting Cartography: Places the United States Has Bombed
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 July 2006
... is based on a rendering of a place, almost always viewed from the air, which has been targeted by US bombers. I choose to make these drawings by hand rather than to employ photographic or other mechanical means in the hope that people will take their time with them. This project is an attempt to provide...
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Technologies of Blood: Asylum, Medicine, and Biopolitics
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as a type of technology, which produces an image of the US population (reflecting particular norms) and an image of those bodies imagined to threaten it from both inside and outside. The HIV bar selectively targeted migrant populations, producing an image of the HIV-positive body as coming from elsewhere...
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Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
... for the integrated designs for systems operative in urban sensing, tracking, and targeting can be found in military plans for fighting in the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia: the response to guerrilla fighters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail known as Operation Igloo White. The operation included three separate...
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Seeding the Forest
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 November 2023
... campaigns through the forests, precisely targeting enemy hideouts. Considered to be the most expensive military operation to date, costing approximately over one billion US dollars in the mid-1960s, OIW spawned a host of infrastructural operations spanning the spectrum from remote sensing to sensor planes...
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Toward an Affective Political Ecology of Obesity: Mediating Biological and Social Aspects
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 346–366.
Published: 01 November 2020
... between obesity prevention campaigns that primarily target communities of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and the material realities of living in impoverished foodscapes. Drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic work, we interrogate links among public health rhetoric, obesity stigma, stress, and eating. We...
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Chronicles of the Surveillance State
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that possess a global reach, annihilating space between the military and its intended target. This new spatiality holds host to the United States’ new techniques of power: manhunting and aerial assassination. Consequently, US military control over the world is converted from boots on the ground to surveillance...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of an imaginative landscape become uncertain and paradoxical, just as radioactivity – arguably the dominant figure of the period – rendered matter unstable: a landscape in which desire might be deadly and secret, history poisoned, cities shadowed by their status as targets, and the legacy of the past rendered...
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Published: 01 July 2006
Plate 5: Afghanistan I , In August 1998 , the US announced “Infinite Reach,” antiterrorist missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan. According to William Blum, “from the 1970s to the 80s Afghanistan had a government committed to bringing the underdeveloped country
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... program to, among other tasks, acquire targeting intelligence for human–machine killer-drone teams. But, in practice, these “updated” militaries have not been able to renounce “force of fire” as the most important force multiplier and accept that, in contemporary conflicts, information (in the richest...
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