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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 March 2005
... are surveyed – the expert, the reporter and the witness – with the third focused upon since it has increasingly become an expressed self-identity or ideology of anthropological research within scenes of intervention. Witnessing offers a return to a position of a kind of disinterestedness following on the binds...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the assumption to be considerably wanting. We suggest that what we are actually witnessing is mere acceleration...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
...) and especially timbre as witnesses and eruptions of the potentiality of the general intellect that can never be properly actualized. By analyzing timbre as a fugitive force that desubjectifies those gathered around music, the author argues that it provides an example of the opening necessary for the subjective...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ethan Stoneman; Joseph Packer Abstract The last decade witnessed a drastic reconfiguration of American conservatism by way of a newly emergent and energized dissident right. Beyond the question of ideology, this article argues that an essential aspect of this realignment occurs at the level...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... epoch,” a time witnessing the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technologies of the spirit. This is the time of the simulacrum of the real and the circulation of symbolic exchange and death. Both thinkers are interested in reinterpreting the concept of epokhē to consider psychic individuation...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of violent encounters between the French army and Algerian guerilla fighters, their narratives cover daring eye-witness accounts of war crimes, including acts of torture at times described by the perpetrators themselves while catering to the expectations of a global audience. Florent Emilio Siri’s L’ennemi...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 480–483.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jacob Lipton; Emily Wettstein jacobedwardlipton@gmail.com yaq7tp@virginia.edu Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence , by Susan Schuppli , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2020 , 392 pages, $40 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-262-04357-1 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and practice. In this issue, for example, contributors deliberate and discuss imaginative and contemporary conceptions of cultural politics that range over Maoism and war, terrorism, the anthropology of witnessing, communicative capitalism, the Internet and oppositional politics, Hardt and Negri’s Empire...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 384–390.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the autobahn with its median stripe, which resulted in a single supply line from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun traversed by ten vehicles per minute, an advance detachment of the US Army witnessed in the hills of the Argonne the same as Proust and Saint-Loup had seen across the Parisian city sky: headlight upon...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 150–155.
Published: 01 July 2017
... with vermin, contact with blood or excreta; forcing the detainee to witness or carry out masturbation, copulation, or other sexual acts; forcing detainees to witness or engage in blasphemy, defilement, and sacrilege; implanting a sense of helplessness through arbitrary arrest, random punishment...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and among different cultures and peoples. The outer zone, the sacred, a vaster and unseen reality, the future yet to be witnessed, a leap into the unknown, and the moment when we lose self-identity are among his references. The study of these outside zones or sacred moments has always been central...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of Wuhan. But, much more than that, she offers us a valuable example in terms of what we might address as we think about our lives, now caught up in the conditions set by the pandemic. Fang Fang is at once a witness, a teller, and a doer—and, across these different fields of action, a resister. Fang...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 118–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and Nancy’s divergent working methods and approaches to some of the same themes to which they both were profoundly committed during their fifty-three years together: witness and commentary on the historical pervasiveness of political terror, abuse of power, an interrogation of history and contemporary moral...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
... is the affect that attests the presence of the figure? It does not seem that the figural and the sublime operate on the same plane, because they consist in different modes of response to the event: “Here the event is a demand that we bear witness to the existence of a differend without imposing a linkage...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 111–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the political in a manifestation of individual histories and tracing the psycho-topography of collective memory and ethical witnessing. She consistently created socially engaged figurative art, valuing subtext and layering sociopolitical meanings manifest in an aesthetic commitment to experimentation with image...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2020
... analysis and humanism, both authors witnessed the eclipsing of liberal institutions as part and parcel of the emergence of the powers of language and discourse they associated with the ascension of neoliberal capital. In essence, the declaration of an “incredulity towards metanarratives” and the emphasis...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 139–161.
Published: 01 July 2019
... ( Frazier and Haney 1996 ). So while women may choose or not to report sexual assault, they have very little to do with whether they are believed as witnesses to their own assault, or the extent to which police will make an arrest or prosecutors will bring charges. But in most cases, the rhetoric of police...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Perhaps nowhere is this postfeminist sensibility better witnessed than in the reality makeover television genre, a subset of lifestyle media that incorporates the individual quest for self-improvement with the refashioning of bodily appearance and commodity consumption ( Raisborough 2011 ). In McRobbie’s...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
...-saturated state of our current culture. But his crisis is not brought about simply by the quantity of images we encounter. It exposes a breakdown in our belief in the ability of photographic documentation to bear witness. The project was the outcome of Jaar’s 1994 trip to record the survivors of genocide...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 115–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... A place where we are deployed to serve a need within the workings of the camera-weapon device: a place where we look for something to reinforce us, through an agonistic or acquisitory impulse. Defense and attraction. Conflict and commodification. Everywhere around us, we witness the emergence of a new...
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