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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... by the UK government—as intemperate scaremongers (O'Toole 2020 ). At that stage, as for some time beforehand, “going viral” still had a positive connotation in common parlance. Indeed, it was the ambition of celebrities, politicians, and advertisers for their messages to achieve viral status—ideally...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that the world has entered a new stage organized around a new system of meaning, where uncertainty and distance rule and the other is a figure of contagion: we will call this new stage “viral culture.” Predictions abound about the huge cultural and political influence of new viruses, such as the coronavirus...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Irving Goh Abstract While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 92–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Chris Hables Gray Abstract To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 151–172.
Published: 01 July 2022
...James Dutton Abstract This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in power. Through situating contemporary viral relations in relation to existing literatures focused on pests and parasites, the essay argues that harmful beings are not just exceptions that can be worked around and ultimately accommodated within relational ethics. Instead, harmful entanglements offer more...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of microbiological “values,” the concern of a culturally structured “policy” toward viruses; and a profane technoscience of viral spheres and particles, surfaces, and projections that coexist with the contemporary modernization of the world of perception, our views on machination, our liberation, our attempted...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., shown to be germane to the event of the virus. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 viral contagion media theory diagram COVID-19 simulation curve loop The recent encounters with planetary-scale contagions demonstrate just how entangled an epidemic is with the culture...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-Yam 2016 ). The warning signs of exponentially accelerating viral risk (Norman, Bar-Yam, and Taleb 2020 ) fell on mostly deaf ears early in the pandemic—leaving the richest country in the world behind the curve, hapless, stockpiled with billion-dollar F-35s, border walls, and a militarized police...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 465–476.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and comes to symbolize evil. At this stage power is allergic to the viral infection of reality, even though its attempts to eliminate its other comprise a kind of fatal strategy. This is why Baudrillard (2005) talks about the intelligence of evil and opposes it to the idea of the lucidity pact. In his view...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 311–320.
Published: 01 July 2011
... threats to industrialized disciplinary societies, it is “noise,” “piracy” and “viral contamination” which foreground the limitations of control. Broadly, these are the formations that The Spam Book is concerned with, presenting them not as some kind of disaster innate to control technologies, as Paul...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 9780822371946 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 In the summer of 2018, a viral video was shared on Facebook that captured the devastating face-off between an orangutan and a bulldozer that had demolished a stretch of rainforest in Borneo. Filmed in 2013, the video was published by the International...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 November 2013
... two decades as an activist struggling against what she perceives as the injustices entrenched within the process of neoliberal globalization (and, like Graeber, she focuses on the type of activism she is involved in, what she calls “viral” activism [4–5]: loosely organized, anarchistic, radically...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., heritage sites, school textbooks, military insignia, as well as viral hashtags and profile pictures on social media. For instance, Sinhabahu , one of the plays by Ediriwira Sarachchandra, Sri Lanka's foremost Sinhala playwright, is based on the legend of the lion. Further, Independence Square in Colombo...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 380–390.
Published: 01 November 2016
... is a transversal entity, fully immersed in and immanent to a network of nonhuman (animal, vegetable, viral) relations. The zoe -centered embodied subject is shot through with relational linkages of the contaminating/viral/techno kind, which interconnect it to a variety of others, starting from the environmental...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... .“ In DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media , edited by Ratto Matt Boler Megan , 29 – 52 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Mason Paul . 2012 . “ Global Unrest: How the Revolution Went Viral .” Guardian , January 3 , www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/how-the-revolution...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the network structure is able to account for the solidus—the susceptible, the potential, and the threshold—which forms the basis of containment ideology: undergirding the logic of containment is the a priori of contagion, whether ideological or viral. What is at stake in this reading...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
...) is an example of mastery on steroids. It claims that the minerals of the international seabed area are there for the benefit of mankind 26 and distributes vulnerability through the values of mastery from which it was conceived. Following Grear's ( 2015 : 86–87) assertion that law is a “viral carrier...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
... facilities. The remaining three, donning white suits, are responsible for recording and documenting the event using cameras and smartphones. This is the scene of Yang Xiao's 杨潇 site-specific sound art video that went viral online in April 2022. As the year saw the world gradually approaching the end...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that orbits around it, is penetrated to its core institutions by the new logics of fourth-order fractal culture. Everything is altered by the fact that there are new rules to the game—or, paradoxically, by the fact that “there are no rules” becomes the rule. In the “the fractal (or viral or radiant) stage...
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