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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 512–515.
Published: 01 November 2024
... essentialism” to dispute the last Argentine postdictatorship's legacy. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur's narration theory, Michel Foucault's concept of “strategic antagonism,” Homi Bhabha's insights on authoritarian discourse, and Judith Butler's notion of “alternative agency,” Quintana develops a philosophical...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 194–205.
Published: 01 July 2014
... from the phenomenon of “amusing ourselves to death” in the United States and that this difference has been masked by the decontextualized mechanical application of Western cultural theories, an increasingly common practice in Chinese cultural studies. In fact, Chinese-style “amusing ourselves to death...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Michiel Rys Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis , edited by de Cauwer Stijn , New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 , 256 pages, $35 (paperback), ISBN 9780231186797 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 The inflationary use...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... identifies some of the limits of this “cyber-libertarian 2.0” discourse. It does so first by drawing upon post-Marxist discourse theory to outline the central elements of the discourse, and second by contrasting the cyber-libertarian understanding of “the situation” with a critical political economy reading...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens; Willem Schinkel Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals. Für eine Philosophische Theorie der Globalisierung , Sloterdijk Peter , Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp , 2005 , 415 pages, 25.50€ , HB ISBN 3–518–41676–6 © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 The second...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Matthew Flisfeder In the following, I argue against cognitivist film scholars, such as David Bordwell and Noël Carroll, for the relevance of Slavoj Žižek in the field of film criticism and theory. I argue that Žižek's work presents a wholly new mode of criticism which focuses on the ideological...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 385–389.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... But consider the following, not an untypical example of the sort of language we can find at the beginning and end of chapters. The purpose of the theory of real socialism is to show how men might escape their schizo estrangement, reconnect to their own selves, and enter into social relations founded...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Department of Political Economy] is the one point in this University where one might establish a focus of the arts and sciences. And the organizing concept would naturally be ‘Communication Theory and practice’. A simultaneous focus of current and historical forms. Relevance to be given to selection of areas...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
...John Armitage Abstract This short article deals with the concept of the world, and that concept's ability to engage with the impact of the coronavirus and the remaking of image theory anew. The concept of the world can, it is argued, be utilized to offer a sustained engagement with the influence...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 6 Mira Schor, Reversible Painting: Theory/Visual Pleasure , 2013. Ink and oil on gesso on linen, 28 × 24 in. More
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Daniel Vukovich This essay addresses the “demand for humanism, with a nod toward Asia” within current theory and global intellectual political culture. I argue that using humanism as a way to understand China (a habit inside and especially outside the PRC) keeps us within the orientalist tradition...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Morgan Adamson In the midst of struggles against racial oppression in the United States that intensified in and around 1968, activists developed the theory of the internal colony to contend that US imperialism was essential to understanding racial oppression in the heart of empire. The theory...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Tom Rockmore The aim of this article is threefold. To begin with, I sketch in outline form some main aspects of Hegel’s theory of history. Second, I will consider in some detail its relation to theology, which is an important theme for his position in general, including his view of history. Finally...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 July 2006
...McKenzie Wark If game theory was objective, rational, abstract; gamer theory is subjective, intuitive, particular. If game theory starts with the self-contained agent, like a prisoner in a cell, looking out at the world; gamer theory wonders how the agency of the gamer comes into being as something...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
... between art and the general intellect by reading Virno’s theory of language, speech, and communication. From here, it goes to his theory of exodus, which is then read back through his linguistic theory to draw out the key role that subjective defection plays in the project. Although Virno doesn’t spend...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Mike Gane Baudrillard's theories developed dramatically over his intellectual career of forty years, and throughout these years he contributed considerably to the thematic of cultural fetishism. Consistent with his conception of the consumer society, he developed the notion of sign-fetishism...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 267–276.
Published: 01 November 2017
...John Armitage; Ryan Bishop; Mark Featherstone; Douglas Kellner Although neither a cultural philosophy nor a political theory, the concept of cultural politics emerged, as we conceive it, decades ago in a time when it was often argued that the study of culture and the academic discipline of cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... connection, anticapitalist struggles are reduced to liberal reforms that end up reinforcing and deepening capitalist production relations. To break out of this trap, we block together several political, philosophical, and aesthetic theories that might otherwise be thought of as mutually exclusive...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
... current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., an entire positivistic theory of the black box was established. A deeper historical investigation reveals that the theory of the black box emerged from military practices originating in World War Two. An analysis of the black box that also focuses on political and cultural contexts will show tensions...