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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 135–154.
Published: 01 July 2016
... established. This article focuses, instead, on exploring the interfacial oscillations among that which is experienced as habitable or uninhabitable, as a kind of regionalizing of relationships between life and nonlife. It looks at how possibilities of living disappear and reappear, often in the least expected...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 202–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Maxwell Woods Recent criticisms of regionalization and urbanization in the Anthropocene have argued that actors are increasingly producing uninhabitable spaces, in which oppressed and marginalized groups are either left to die or forced into a rootless existence of constant displacement. Through...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of no return, that even the most stringent action could not prevent irreversible changes in climate that would make our planet uninhabitable for humans and for countless other forms of life. In his latest book, Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (2017), William Connolly...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 404–406.
Published: 01 November 2018
... uninhabitable conditions) may be extended outward to wider domains of deliberation, strategic action, and decision making. Chapter 5 is perhaps the most important to the overall contribution of the book since this is the hinge between the maneuvering that takes place within popular urban neighborhoods...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
... uninhabited or lightly populated (by which was meant untargeted) territory than the US. This led to projections of postapocalyptic squads of Communists bent on taking over the world – having been deliberately concealed in those unscathed areas – outnumbering and overwhelming their American counterparts...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 244–251.
Published: 01 July 2019
... similarly toxic and uninhabitable. Each of the photos includes two workers: one represents the illness and impoverishment of those exploited in the neoliberal world order, while the other signals opposition to that order through angry gestures and holding signs of protest. In each, this drama of despair...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 317–328.
Published: 01 November 2005
... describe many varieties of South African landscape – in this instance, effort was made to locate the shoot in a site that epitomized a dry, uninhabited yellow grass-scape, common to the Gauteng province in which Johannesburg and Pretoria are located. This contrasts with the rose garden, which represents...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 128–147.
Published: 01 March 2023
...), the earth would be uninhabitable, and with their rising rates of death and extinction, the earth might very well become uninhabitable. Trees also populate our imagination. Many of us first become interested in trees through legends and traditional stories. Forests loom large in European folklore...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... “asymmetrical advantage” ( Wolfowitz 2003 ) over any (human and/or nonhuman) threat, or absolute global peace and security as we have said before? “Everything just has to be uninhabitable. That way there's no more problem” ( Virilio and Lotringer 2002: 173 ). To be included as a citizen in our society...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., that once upon a time final frontier, stretches empty and uninhabited, remote and forbiddingly silent and cold. Why make such a drawing? The virtuoso quality of Longo’s drawing is an important part of the effect of these works. The sheer force of aesthetic impact is vital, not trivial, to engagements...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Faced with the equally plausible but unknowable global threats of nuclear devastation and environmental catastrophe, each of which would likely render Earth’s surface uninhabitable, there are two obvious escape routes: up or down. Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 November 2023
... contradictory and paradoxical trajectories and to invert the entropic abstractions that render the urban uninhabitable—how to use the capacities of the technical to “leap ahead” of human-based semiotic-syntactic frameworks and extraction-based value to open up different modes of inhabitation and contributory...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 214–232.
Published: 01 July 2020
... that departs from sanctioned versions of reality. The always threatening meaninglessness of digital signs that trolls nihilistically embrace as inherent to engaging in online interaction creates a milieu of perpetual spectacle that would be uninhabitable to the “serious” dissemination of ideological values...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 357–382.
Published: 01 November 2010
... into news blogs, television, and other media around the world. However, the place itself remained uninhabited. Oshra, 1 a middle-aged Jewish housewife from a Southern Israeli town, was sitting on a plastic chair in the middle of a dusty valley in the Northern Negev desert in Israel. Around her...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the director wrote the play during an international flight to the United States (see Elsaesser 1996 ; Calandra 1998 ; Galt 2011 ). The play was loosely based on Gerhard Zwerenz’s novel Die Erde ist unbewohnbar wie der Mond ( The Earth Is Uninhabitable like the Moon ; 1973). Merging expressionist, morality...
