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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Enda McCaffrey This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 126–133.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in our geological memory as a whole formation. However, Garnett’s paintings feature sporadically inhabited militarized topographies and susceptible living beings, and must live separately, not as an area of canvas or numerous patches of night-vision green and black but as a kind of evening prayer...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Virilio’s Le futurisme de l’instant ” McCaffrey rereads Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to the feminine) to particularity, contingency, and illegality. In order to trace a relationship here between the archival antipathy indicated in the affirmation of the architectonic and the domestic scene of philosophical writing, we might turn to the topography of critical philosophy given...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
... cutting edge of British marine insurance.” These risks were particular to slave ships and related to a volatile internal cargo, rather than an external threat. But they could be equally thought of as integral to the maritime topography itself. John Weskett, in his 1781 tome A Complete Digest...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the topography of the tube system is represented symbolically. The concentric circles form the image of the classical target – the targe , or light concave shield that gives the current notion of target its name – promising that the map inside will deliver you to your destination as surely as a well-aimed...
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Published: 01 November 2013
becomes an imaginary topography on the floor, creating associations with national myth-making that the festival curators have loosely played with as part of the name and identity of the Kochi-Muziris. Opposite is an installation, Untitled , of a Keralan fishing boat by the Indian artist Subodh Gupta
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 296–312.
Published: 01 November 2013
... becomes an imaginary topography on the floor, creating associations with national myth-making that the festival curators have loosely played with as part of the name and identity of the Kochi-Muziris. Opposite is an installation, Untitled , of a Keralan fishing boat by the Indian artist Subodh Gupta...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
... heimat are sufficiently familiar with their Ancient Mother, or, in more straightforward terms, with the surrounding topography. Hermann’s plan of action is based in its entirety on the fact that legions “on low swampy ground” stand no chance against unified Germanic tribes “ranged on wooden heights...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 111–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... nightmare. . . . The eschatological is as real as a Chrysler or a tank.” Nancy Spero’s themes explore the full range of power relations: unraveling the political in a manifestation of individual histories and tracing the psycho-topography of collective memory and ethical witnessing. She consistently...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., sometimes in dense rows, and consist of painting, collage, photography, and printing techniques; they scramble time frames and topographies despite the fact that they are not time-based mediums. Malani’s installations consist of overlays of six-channel video projections and several painted Mylar cylinders...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 318–332.
Published: 01 November 2023
... on the vicissitudes of nonhuman factors or elemental forces, for example, weather or topography, water or fire, my argument does not intend to promote environmental determinism. Rather, I attempt to put the agency of crowds back in the larger world where nonhuman natural elements play nonnegligible parts in serving...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 289–303.
Published: 01 November 2018
... infinite grid-shaped settlement topography, Le Corbusier proclaimed an architectural vision based on the replication of standardized, industrially prefabricated, and easily transportable dwelling cells of modular design” (118). Minecraft worlds, of course, are a perfect allegory for the desire...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... crews oriented themselves by means of geographical features such as lakes, rivers, and city topographies which appeared on the screens of the cathode ray tubes. In the beginning of 1943, a Pathfinder Bomber fell into German hands at Rotterdam. The almost completely intact H2S device was codenamed...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in which players became “integrally woven into the fabric of a virtual society ” (1999: 233). From MUDing, forums would develop into sophisticated 3-D digital online game worlds characterized by extensive and vividly detailed topographies – the “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG...
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2025
... , an ectopic topography, serial somatography, local geography” (206–7), across which sense passes into signification. Although this passage must be queried, it is certain that it does not constitute a transition across orders, but the limit between the happening and what happens, the skin of the body...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... material” and rooted in a particular geography, topography, and architectural context. The contemporary landscape is embedded with affective objects and spaces built by ordinary people to memorialize ordinary lives. They are part of a larger trend in contemporary society toward an increase in vernacular...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
... these effects interact with mental health. Psychiatry, in other words, is gaining a topography. Something else happens, though, when this mutation in psychiatric thought intersects with a long-standing cultural anxiety about what the urban environment actually does to its inhabitants—and how a new...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of not only the solitary unconscious but what we might call the collective algorithmic unconscious. This affective topography of the digital era—an algorithmic psychogeography—might allow users to explore emotions and mnemotechnic via smartphone use. This is where Stiegler is singularly important because he...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the possibilities open to that demand and the paths that any ensuing “politicization” may take. A critical consideration of Dean’s observations regarding the imbrication of the ICTs with communicative capitalism would therefore show that her methodology lacks a more radical thinking of the evolving topography...
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