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French Theology for the Philosopher of Technology
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2015
... classic texts. This sort of appreciation will open those interested in the philosophy of technology to the importance of dialectical theology in the work of Ellul and in the work of thinkers like Michel Henry, Paul Virilio, and others who also have a profound theological sensitivity grounded...
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Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Richard Beardsworth This paper considers Bernard Stiegler's contribution to contemporary critical theory. Stiegler's singular understanding of technology widens critical debate on the specificity of contemporary society and prolongs, in a novel manner, remaining commitments of recent French...
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Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Josef Nguyen This analysis of Make , a US parenting magazine, focuses on how the periodical attempts to democratize science and technology through do-it-yourself (DIY) politics by rendering it a problem of child-rearing. Positioning the magazine within a broader context of contemporary interest...
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Narcissism in the Age of Technology
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
...-policing. But a polity cannot possibly depend on good citizens with nothing to hide. There needs to be a space for dissent in which citizens' thoughts and actions cannot be monitored. Our expectations from technology, the loneliness we experience when connected, and the intrusion of our privacy can...
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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
... colleges and universities specifically geared to housing, while “hundreds of others” dealt with the subject. Howe, Manning, and Almy Papers, MIT Archives, box 19, folder 855. 16. Christian Science Monitor , Dec. 17, 1942: 4. 17. Anonymous, “Decentralization by Bombing”, Technology Review...
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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
...John Beck; Ryan Bishop In North America, there are over one hundred programs and labs committed to collaborative experimentation in art and technology. This article examines the current prominence of art and technology labs in the context of the resurgence of collaborative practice in the arts...
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Power, Secrecy, Paranoia: Technologies of Governance and the Structure of Rule
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... with a discussion on how technology mediates between power and secrecy, forming a key nexus in the exploration of politics and paranoia. © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2010 11. Engemann (2009) shows this ambiguity when he explains how digital technologies do not, in themselves, make subjects more legible...
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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
...Cathy Hannabach In this article I analyze the gender, racial, sexual, and national ideologies at play in the incarceration and forced sterilization of HIV-positive Haitian refugees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in the 1990s. Focusing on legal and medical technologies—specifically asylum law...
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Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Sean Cubitt Technology has in general been seen as opposed to humanity: its object, even its enemy. The Grundrisse suggests, however, that technology can be understood as the actualized form of accumulated social knowledge. This actual form can then be understood from the standpoint of a dialectic...
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Technologies of Visibility: The History of Skin Lighteners in South Africa
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 267–270.
Published: 01 July 2022
... so pervasive and persistent throughout time, thus unraveling the dynamic historical layers “beneath the surface” of skin lightening. Beneath the Surface specifically understands skin lightening as a “technology of visibility” by which consumers “render[ed] themselves legible” in a world...
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The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of contradictory binaries: body versus soul and body versus mind. The article shows that the hunger strike not only is a political strategy for liberation; it also moves into a spiritualization of the struggle. It uses and problematizes Foucault's “technologies of the self” to theorize the specific formation...
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Circuit Breakers and Biopolitical Strategies
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the lines of continuity between containment strategies, contact-tracing technology, and circulations and networks. The uptake of mobile application surveillance by government entities to trace the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has seamlessly supplemented containment measures. Singapore's deployment of TraceTogether...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chris Hables Gray; Ángel J. Gordo There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low...
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Dromospheric Generation: The Things That We Have Learned Are No Longer Enough
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Felicity J. Colman Paul Virilio’s work on dromology provides a model of a political economy. Called the “dromoeconomic” system, it incorporates aspects of temporality, consumption, and technology, arguably three of the core factors for consideration of the future organization of human societies...
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“I Want a Baby; Don't Stop Me from Being a Mother”: An Ethnographic Study on Fertility Tourism and Egg Trade
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 327–344.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., such as the view of the body as an object of utility and value. This article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround different forms of assisted reproductive technology (ART), fertility tourism, and the egg trade. It further calls for an understanding of how the local, culturally embedded...
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Activism, Acceleration, and the Humanist Aporia: Indymedia Intensified in the Age of Neoliberalism
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Ingrid M. Hoofd This article suggests that the humanist aporia, which is productively at work in the Indymedia project, has become a main ingredient of technological acceleration under neoliberalism. The article draws out Indymedia's response and relation to what it will call “speed-elitism...
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Inner Screens and Cybernetic Battlefields: Paul Virilio and RoboCop
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
... technology, its true failure is in sustaining the progressivist myth of technology perfectly under human control. Padilha’s RoboCop comes at a cultural moment when the human has been not only theoretically deconstructed but also technologically displaced. Virilio (2005 : 98) comments specifically...
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De Nostalgia
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
... you are trying to defend. Gravity’s Rainbow , in turn, decodes the Second World War as a massive exercise in technology transfer. It effectively presents a deconstruction of heimat in an age in which the imperative to merge technologies supersedes all national agendas. © 1987 Ferdinand Schoningh...
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Bernard Stiegler and the Time of Technics
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 207–228.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Ian James This paper examines Bernard Stiegler's thinking about technics as developed in the first two volumes of his Technics and Time trilogy. It does so against the backdrop of Francis Fukuyama's highly influential thinking about technologically driven historical progress in The End of History...
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Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Jodi Dean What is the political impact of networked communications technologies? I argue that as communicative capitalism they are profoundly depoliticizing. The argument, first, conceptualizes the current political-economic formation as one of communicative capitalism. It then moves to emphasize...
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