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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 509–511.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nina Lykke [email protected] Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment , by Margrit Shildrick , London, Bloomsbury , 2022 , 262 pages, $39.92 (paperback), ISBN 9781350224940 . $103.94 (hardcover), ISBN 9781350176492 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 346–366.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Emma-Jayne Abbots; Karin Eli; Stanley Ulijaszek This article argues for an affective approach to obesity that destabilizes the conceptual boundaries between the biological and the social aspects of food, eating, and fatness. Its approach foregrounds visceral experience, attends to food both inside...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Andrea Pavoni This article explores the making and tasting of wine through the anonymous processes of nonhuman consumption that participate in the production of its relational ontology (the terroir) and shape its visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste). First, the author defines a notion...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
... program of the early twentieth century, set out in Garden Cities of To-Morrow , is taken as exemplary here. The article ends with a reading of Clive Barker's 1985 short story “The Forbidden” and of the film Candyman , which it gave rise to, whose shared sense of horror at the visceral consequences...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 340–345.
Published: 01 November 2020
... articles all highlight what we term corporeal consumption : how bodies are both consumed by and also consumers of the worlds around them. Taking these processes of consumption as both metaphorical and visceral, the articles extend and productively reverse previous discussions of how bodies are made...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and affecting others. But there are many forms of affect and many different ways to be embodied. While not an obvious affect, being seasick alerts us to the viscerality of being embodied and entangled in the swaying human and nonhuman nets of materiality and meaning ( Probyn 2014 ). All are caught in the prism...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 381–392.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in establishing a hierarchy with my collection of images, allowing the pours, drips and handprints to live right next to mass-marketed logos without draining either of their power or intention. Mind and body are addressed equally. The visceral evidence of mid-20th century abstract painting and a cheap t-shirt...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
... may respond to being assigned to a nonhuman animal group. Attempting to answer to this question requires a shift of our analytical gaze from groups and intergroup relations to the realm of the individual and the visceral. To engage in this analysis, armed with the theoretical and methodological...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., cultural internalism, humanist exceptionalism, and planetary gradualism” (165). It is possible to work on these “culturally imbued proto-thoughts,” Connolly contends, by working on “the visceral register of cultural life” (167). This is an essentially Foucauldian project, a task that Connolly views...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of flowers manifests the dilemma of the dualism of the internal/external realms. 1 The visceral body parts hanging over the dark figure are also trodden underfoot, indicating the overcoming of suffering. The dark figure is enmeshed in and surrounded by the visceral and psychological difficulties shown...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 July 2023
... describes—emulating “visceral, eye-catching and page-turning power” of popular aesthetics of crisis (Nixon 2011 : 3). In showing how the ordinary violence of globalization, as it emerges in the urban semiperiphery, might be mistaken for a more “politically and emotionally” (3) recognizable crisis...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 July 2008
... for the inherent homogeneity of the global marketplace. Leach’s “relational architecture” begins with a very different way of making the world; it requires an act of assimilation in the creative process, a form of “visceral engagement” (p. 242). The resulting environment, which may or may not resemble the context...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... conceived in such ways, the fat imaginary is never merely imaginary. Closer to Gaston Bachelard’s (2002) notion of the material imagination, though without the latter’s gestures toward primordiality, the fat imaginary is grounded in material exchanges and visceral responses to ingestions that are both...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 98–109.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of cynicism and satire, often mislabeled as “irony.” My response to these phenomena was mostly negative and visceral. In my work, I was struggling to find a way to engage the problem, as I saw it, without didacticism. I realized that although I could not offer solutions, I could provide entry points...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 317–328.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and representational conventions within a contemporary framework. The Victorian sensibility often tended toward sweet sentimentality. Whilst consciously re-creating this “chocolate-box” sweetness, we intend to simultaneously disrupt it through representation of visceral intervention into/onto the skin, possibly...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., and maps. Also, to further my intention of seducing the viewer, I choose to make these drawings by hand rather than to employ photographic or other mechanical, less visceral means, in the hope that people will take their time with them and not just quickly turn the page, change the channel, or close...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 118–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Reynolds. Nancy Spero, Male Bomb (1966). From War Series. Gouache and ink on paper. 36 × 24 in. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York. Photograph by David Reynolds. By rendering a symbolic and visceral response to the trauma and displacement of war, the artist unhinged her figures from the course...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 313–322.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... For as Davidson, Park, and Shields remind us, “infused with power, grounded in place and located bodies, affect is viscerally political” ( 2011: 5 ), permeating every layer of everyday life. The affective landscapes explored in this edition “consider space and place beyond their material properties” while...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 432–441.
Published: 01 November 2024
... . . . that came shimmering into view” as the register of something like a revived Third World sensibility on the part of the Global South, its nonalignment with the traditional powers of the North, and, indeed, a cultural memory of this internationalist past, rendered viscerally in pronounced “South African...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 277–288.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., I was jolted out of my archival work and into a visceral moment of pain. A tiny chimpanzee, curled over, weak, emaciated and covered in scabs from the injections of syphilis. I can see their pain, I empathize and their distress breaks through the archive, with a sudden kick in the stomach...