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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... economized and securitized world, than coming across a despotic imperative that blurs the distinction between law and unlaw. Thus populations seem to have adopted a habitual obedience to the dictates of the market and the state authorities. Ours is a world that can live with “strong” leaders, some of whom...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Association—as they contest the imperative to produce cultural/knowledge representations on behalf of the present. Drawing on Michel Foucault's identification of the political practice of parrēsia and its relationship to ontologies of veridiction, I argue that the institutionalization of the author stabilizes...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the very act of writing. Metzger’s works are discussed as aesthetic responses to the “new categorical imperative” of Adorno, who addresses art’s failure in light of Auschwitz by pointing to aporias that constitute the inescapable condition of “barbarism.” This essay suggests that Metzger’s aesthetic...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Rosalind Gill; Shani Orgad Abstract Examining women's magazines and lifestyle coaching, the article explores how positivity imperatives in contemporary culture call forth a happy, confident, hopeful, and vibrant subject during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows how these positivity...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the logic of maximum efficiency internalized by the film's protagonist. As such the film questions the libertarian rhetoric of the open road and instead proposes that American fictions of free mobility mask the fact of containment by military-industrial imperatives. Filmography Vanishing Point . 2004...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2008
... a political imperative of the absolute deniability of covert actions. It thereby ushered in a specifically modern form of innocence. Greene’s novel is about an early version of that innocence. Modern innocence conceals the “principle of implosion” according to which ferocious opposites reverse into one...
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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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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... manufacturing and preservation, and thermal infrared imaging, thermal control is shown to be essential to the conversion of geological matter into circulations of media on a mass scale. In each of these cases, cultural assumptions and imperatives—the drive toward purity, the development of standardization...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., these two moments demonstrate the historical continuity of a core imperative to exhaustively capitalize space. This historicization also foregrounds the racialized inequalities coded within these informatic logics. Against the bright innovation narratives of technology, this article stresses a longer...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... imperative. Music's essential building block, according to Deleuze and Guattari, is the nonmusical refrain. However, whereas Deleuze and Guattari diagnosed music's radical becoming as an expressive deterritorialization, Lyotard considered music as a political act by virtue of its nonexpressive...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of allegedly trivial creativity methods in the rise of what sociologist Andreas Reckwitz has identified as the “creativity dispositif”: a seemingly playful, but indeed rigid, imperative in post-Fordist and neoliberal societies that demand the constant production of innovative outcomes under flexible, yet self...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 July 2008
... cultural theory visual culture sign pursuit phenomenology the imperative Two o’clock in the hot afternoon in Paris on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, and we didn’t feel like doing very much. 1 Yet, lounging in our room (chambre 47) at the Hôtel Raspail-Montparnasse (“Charme & confort dans un...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in Common (1994a), Abuses (1994b), Foreign Bodies (1995), Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (1996), The Imperative (1998), Dangerous Emotions (2000), Trust (2004), and Body Transformations (2005). Through these widely praised philosophical translations, books, and related critical...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 March 2020
...” choice between two evils forced on us by neoliberal, right, conservative crisis discourse (xvi). Accordingly, Critical Theory at a Crossroads lives up to its imperative of “horizontality” by virtue of the interview format: there is no master narrative or answer that is given a preferential treatment...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... it is an instrument of agency and resistance that is deployed in gestures small and large, but always meaningful to the subjects using them. The path to joy is both pleasurable and treacherous, as individuals encounter “positivity imperatives” (Gill and Orgad) even when they have every reason to be sad...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as any “friend” can turn into a “foe” at a moment's notice. Not unlike the sinister suspension of law in Agamben's ( 1998 , 2004 ) state of exception, the imperative of the solidus defers the partitioning of bodies according to the binary. This effectively means that citizens are neither friend nor foe...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is it possible to expose more experiences of oppression and suffering, as a strategy of authenticity, on a platform like Instagram that operates on the imperative of happiness? Goffman's work is fundamental to understanding the ways social actors present themselves in everyday life. Nevertheless, he lived...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 421–425.
Published: 01 November 2015
... with the categories of the “postsecular” and the “posthuman.” In each case, it is the question of the reject that is at stake, the imperative to think an instance that would be inscribed “ under the subject , another concept, another ‘who’” (6). The ambition of this work, then, is very great, as indeed...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2012
... by neoliberal capitalism (with, for instance, the Seattle protests). Far from suggesting though that Hands's argument is wrong to do so, I would say that this promissory plot tells us a lot about the increasingly technologically mediated morals and imperatives that academics who want anticapitalist activism...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... headings of her book, we instead become adepts at being able to judge the value of the “aesthetic imperative”; are connoisseurs of the “look and feel” of commodities; we learn how to discern “surface” from “substance”; and can recognize what is “meaningful” in our consumer choice. The beneficence of market...
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