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Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
... in which the actual is capable of action only if it can convert its actuality into virtuality, that is to free itself for a future other than its actual present. Critical to this political project is work at the aesthetic level of media and communications technologies. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008...
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Living with the Virtual: Baudrillard, Integral Reality, and Second Life
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., in the era of immersive virtual worlds, Baudrillard retains a critical cultural currency. Expanding upon Baudrillard's identification of virtual reality as a key exemplar of integral reality, this is applied to an analysis of Second Life in the context of the argument that it constitutes a virtual space...
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A scene from a virtual factor, referencing Michael Grieves's digital factor...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 A scene from a virtual factor, referencing Michael Grieves's digital factory diagram. Digital twins for industrial manufacturing are known to include both equipment and proxy laborers in their simulation interfaces. Produced by Madaleine Ackerman and Amelyn Ng.
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Published: 01 July 2017
Figure 5 Mannahatta VR (work in progress), November 2016, screenshot of virtual reality experience in the HTC Vive headset. This is a virtual reality experience created with Highway 101, ETC, to bring together the past and present of one block of Broadway, developed through consultation
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The Recursive Mode: Space, Time, and the Hyper-Commodification of Culture
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... has also created immense “virtual” spatio-temporalities based on the Internet that are almost wholly commodified. Moreover, these spatio-temporalities, both virtual and real-world, function at accelerated speeds, a “network speed” to produce forms of culture-production and consumption that no longer...
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In a Viral Conjuncture: Locking Down Mobilities
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
...David Morley Abstract This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the various factors that must be taken into account to explain the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on questions of how virtual and material geographies are enmeshed, paying...
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Accidentology: A Critical Assessment of Paul Virilio's Political Economy of Speed
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., and disasters are endemic to the economic system. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Paul Virilio accidentology accidents dromology Flash Crash virtualization Daily life is becoming a kaleidoscope of incidents and accidents, catastrophes and cataclysms, in which we are endlessly running up...
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Making Space: Image Events in an Extreme State
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to be unmasked, and the totalized concepts of simulacral virtuality that forecloses lived experience. The space made by image events is that space of interpretative activity. The works of a number of key contemporary artists offer an insight into the ways refamiliarization relates to the crises in the identity...
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Why Look at Toy Animals?: Play, Protopolitics, and the Postnatural
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... The child's toy and media environment is playfully zoomorphic, populated with artificial animals, from toys and stories to virtual pets and video-game characters, a new simulacral and postnatural trajectory in the descendance of the artificial animal and its playful and play-like behaviors. References...
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Get Unstuck!: Pandemic Positivity Imperatives and Self-Care for Women
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... but also through visual, embodied, and affective means and through an emphasis on developing new social practices—from holding one's body differently, to keeping gratitude journals, to cultivating a new virtual persona for online work meetings. The article highlights a profound paradox: in times...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., military institutions are based on a hierarchical structure that precludes social media from becoming part of their organizational and decision-making culture. For them, social media constitute part of civil society, a commons both virtual and physical. The synergy between computer networks...
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Political Spirituality: The Devils , Possession, and Truth-Telling
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...
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Baudrillard, Postfeminism, and the Image Makeover
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of differentiating between feminist and antifeminist themes amid the implosive forces of a virtualized significatory and political economy. To map what a feminist-Baudrillardian approach to postfeminist media images might look like, this essay engages with current feminist theorizing about the postfeminist condition...
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“Say Rawr!”: Lyotard, Deleuze/Guattari, and the Refrains of Wesley Willis
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... desubjectivation. Had Lyotard abandoned his own straw man of romantic expressionism and instead adopted a Deleuzean expressionist aesthetic, his prescriptions for the political/musical act might have spanned beyond the domain of the European composers who remained virtually his only musical reference point...
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From Models to Mirror Worlds
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Figure 1 A scene from a virtual factor, referencing Michael Grieves's digital factory diagram. Digital twins for industrial manufacturing are known to include both equipment and proxy laborers in their simulation interfaces. Produced by Madaleine Ackerman and Amelyn Ng. ...
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Do You Hear the People's Nonsense?: Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
.../world-asia-china-63295749 . Massumi Brian . Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation . 20th ann. ed. with a new preface. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . Merleau-Ponty Maurice . 1964 . Sense and Non-sense . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 194–201.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Figure 5 Mannahatta VR (work in progress), November 2016, screenshot of virtual reality experience in the HTC Vive headset. This is a virtual reality experience created with Highway 101, ETC, to bring together the past and present of one block of Broadway, developed through consultation...
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Hardt and Negri’s Information Empire: A Critical Response
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 101–118.
Published: 01 March 2005
... as a second-grader and as bright as the dictionary and the grammar book. So consequential is the bundling of culture with digital machines that many observers refuse to apply the term reality to it in favor of the vague adjective “virtual.” 1 Nothing has really changed in all of this but everything...
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Between War and Play
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 495–497.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of particularization of the whole” (124). Such an account offers a useful alternative from the now prevalent narrative of virtual communities as whole, interconnected spaces and demonstrates how the logic of game play mode operates even in spaces that require the cultivation of social relations. Chapter 7 also offers...
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Prolegomenon to a Right to Disappear
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., announced that the city as we know it – the concrete, urban, crowded, architectural city – is entering its virtual death. 1 For Virilio then, there is no future for a thought that remains nostalgic for such a space. Instead of a real, telluric city, thought should traverse the contours of a virtual...
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