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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): 114–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on the worlds of respiratory tracts and viral subfamilies, the realm of the genome, and the nucleocapsid (the nucleic acid of a coronavirus together with the protein coat that encloses it). But the image of the virus that the world of technoscience presents to the world, an image that is a theoretical view...
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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): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The article also includes David Benqué’s speculative diagrams of contagion loops that present an artistic response to the theoretical theme. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 viral contagion media theory diagram COVID-19 simulation curve loop The recent encounters...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and potential of the viral threat, national leaders failed early and caught on late to the need for a globally coordinated response. Coupled with a deep resistance by states to the alienation of any degree of sovereignty to international institutions, the prospect of a global fix remains elusive. In response...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 465–476.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that we need to side with the other, who he calls “the less dead than us,” in the global struggle between system and event. Against the empire of the good, which has culminated in a horrific universe characterized by completion, despair, and obsolescence, he sides with the principle of viral contamination...
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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
... , by Parreñas Juno Salazar , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 , 267 + ix pages, $25.95 (paper), ISBN 9780822370772 , $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780822370628 , $25.95 (ebook), ISBN 9780822371946 © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 In the summer of 2018, a viral video was shared...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 November 2013
... is involved in, what she calls “viral” activism [4–5]: loosely organized, anarchistic, radically anticapitalist action, as well as the intellectual political ideas that support it). Her aim is not to destroy alter-globalism by picking it apart and dismissing it as an illusion; rather, her well-intentioned...
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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
... – 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-went-viral . McConnell Mike . 2010 . “ Mike McConnell on How to Win the Cyber-War We’re...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 2021
... crisis, as sacrificial bodies who are laid bare to the epidemic in a short circuit of this viral network. At the end of an interview on control societies, Deleuze ( 1995 : 175) proposed to “create vacuoles of noncommunication, circuit breakers, so we can elude control.” Feeding into discourses...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... salinity distribution arising from increasing polar ice melts and precipitation (Cai et al. 2005 ; Ridgeway 2007 ). Following Grear's ( 2015 : 86–87) assertion that law is a “viral carrier of a hierarchy of being” and Alaimo's figuration of transcorporeality, I argue that vulnerability can...
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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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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
... was videotaped, and its repeated broadcast on television and internet dissemination generated a viral media spectacle globally, as a policeman was shown nonchalantly holding Floyd down with a knee on his neck as Floyd repeatedly said “I can't breathe,” replicating the death of African American Eric Garner...
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