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Bunker media: stories from the abundant and redundant underground Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Greg Elmer, Stephen J. Neville
Media are abundant. So much so that our very identities, past, present and future, are tied – if not defined – by our personal media documents. How then can individuals and communities whose lives ...
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Recontextualising Roland Barthes through Bruce Nauman’s video installations and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Chris Doyen
A recontextualisation of Roland Barthes’s concepts of the third meaning and the punctum is presented through an analysis of Bruce Nauman’s installation art and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. ...
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Manifesta without a manifesto? Artistic statements in times of political turbulence Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Margarita Kuleva
This paper seeks to explore the evolving form of art manifestos in the contemporary cultural economy by bringing perspectives of those cultural producers who cannot speak up in the conventional for...
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COVID-19 cookbooks: war and pleasure in US kitchens Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Nieves Pascual Soler
In 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, as home cooking grew in the US, sales of cookbooks surged and community cookbooks started showing up in the households of the country. This essay is concerne...
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Soft food as violence cover-up: militarised foods as foods of the everyday Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Kayci Merritte
In this essay, the food texture of softness is analysed through the lens of food and culture studies as a boundary crossing and connecting texture that conjoins the US military and civilian realms....
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The mesh, the poetics of (not)being and the hauntings of identity in Kim Scott’s Benang: From the Heart Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Bonaventure Muzigirwa Munganga
This paper aims to establish how ecological thinking, or the idea of interconnectedness among all beings, from the Indigenous onto-epistemic view in Kim Scott’s Benang: From the Heart warrants a po...
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From the ready room to the battle bus: exploring militarisation through gamespace soundwalks in Fortnite Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Ben Scholl, Milena Droumeva
While its candy-coated shell may provide a clever camouflage for younger markets, this paper acknowledges that militarisation has been made pleasurable in more sensuous ways. Deploying gamespace so...
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The cinematic universe of copaganda: world-building and the enchantments of policing Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Derek S. Denman
What happens if we interpret representations of policing as a shared cinematic universe. What continuities emerge between stories of the formal institution of the police, vigilantism, and settler a...
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The abject pleasures of militarised noise Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Peter J. Woods
Since Luigi Russolo first published The Art of Noise in 1913, certain lineages of experimental musicians have iterated on the futurist’s positioning of noise as militarised sound. But the deploymen...
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Autonomous weapons of pleasure. Media archaeology of automated killing in military and gaming technologies Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Michał Dawid Żmuda
The article examines the relationship between the military model of autonomous weapons and the use of AI combat entities in computer games. The author explores how the technological and discursive ...
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Desperate science fiction: on how Musk, Bezos, Gates and Google plan to escape socio-ecological collapse Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Gregers Andersen
With the early 2020s fostering an array of intensified climate-driven catastrophes, a key question is how humanity will respond to its impending transgressions of climatic and ecosystemic tipping p...
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Introduction: manifestos of the contemporary Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Evangelos Chrysagis, Panos Kompatsiaris
What is the purpose of writing a manifesto – a relic of modernism – today? Most scholarly publications on manifestos and cultural production focus mainly on the historical and avant-garde roots of ...
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Performing African Studies at El Colegio de México: neoliberal colonialism and the globalectical South Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Paulina Aroch-Fugellie
ABSTRACT By analysing a talk by Ngugi wa Thiong’o at Colmex in Mexico City as an academic performance, and his memoir of the early 1960s at Makerere University in Kampala, I explore different ways of engaging with Africa as subject/object of knowledge, in classic colonialism and neoliberal colonialism, in Latin America and in Africa. In my first case study, analysing the Colmex event as an academic
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Claiming class: The manifesto between categorical disruption and stabilisation Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Carsten Junker
This article locates the recent resurgence of the manifesto as form on a spectrum between sociopolitical and epistemic disruption and stabilisation. Focusing on contemporary manifestos published in...
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Exploding the android: encounters with social robotics in a science centre Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Erika Kerruish
ABSTRACT This paper examines science centre displays incorporating robotic technologies to provoke reflection on social robotics. Drawing on research in post-phenomenology and science and technology studies, it considers how exhibits in Born or Built? about robotic emotion undermine its framing narrative of human-robot convergence. Comparing these science centre exhibits to social robotics demonstrations
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Is matter ethical? Is ethics material? An enquiry into the ethical dimension of Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological project Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Małgorzata Kowalcze
ABSTRACT New materialism posits a non-anthropocentric ontology which gives rise to expanding the definition of the ethical subject and ethical relation. According to Karen Barad, who is one of the most prominent researchers in the field, ethicality exceeds the human domain and enfolds the whole of existence. Her project of ethico-onto-epistemology grounds ethics in ontology, perceiving it not as a
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Embracing difference: on law, code and space Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Miriam Tedeschi
ABSTRACT This article explores the ontogenesis of software (code) and law and how they are entangled and in-form bodies and urban space. Herein, I investigate how this process of in-forming creates ruptures, differences in the otherwise smooth experience of the urban. These remain largely invisible but surface when interruptions in the everyday use of technologies affect urbanites. These interruptions
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Gilroy’s Black Atlantic, Hegelian Aufhebung, and the culture of reparation Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Rebekah Howes
ABSTRACT This article argues that within Paul Gilroy’s notion of the ‘changing same’ and his more famous articulation of the ‘Black Atlantic’ there is a culture, an education, that can be retrieved by way of recent re-readings of the Hegelian Aufhebung by Gillian Rose and Nigel Tubbs. The piece begins with an exploration of these ideas in Gilroy’s work, noting in particular the ways in which they speak
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Words and diagrams about Rosenstock-Huessy’s cross of reality Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Martin Zwick
ABSTRACT This paper is a systems theoretic examination of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s ‘cross of reality’, a structure that fuses a spatial dyad of inner-outer and a temporal dyad of past-future into a space–time tetrad. This structure is compatible not only with the ‘human-centered’ point of view that Rosenstock-Huessy favours, but also with the ‘world-centered’ point of view inherent in science. The
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Branding the manifesto Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Danai Tselenti
Brand manifestos are one of the most recently advanced and popular guises of the manifesto form. Presented in heterogeneous formats (printed, outlined on websites, or as images, podcasts and videos...
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Correction Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-03
Published in Culture, Theory and Critique (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Between matter and meaning: the trope of the Kopftuchmädchen Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Christian David Zeitz
ABSTRACT Recent transdisciplinary formations in the humanities, including new materialisms and ANT, but also in black studies, are recalibrating our understanding of the human and the posthuman as categories of analysis. They have revealed the post-Enlightenment conceptualisation of the universal human to be both epistemologically untenable and violently Eurocentric, and furthermore laid bare how techniques
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COVID-19, microbiopolitics and species precarity in the anthropocene Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Susan Haris
ABSTRACT The turn towards deep entanglement precipitated by the Anthropocene has seen a rise in probiotic approaches towards microorganisms that highlight human-microbe relationalities. However, COVID-19 complicates this relationality not least considering its staggering effects on human society which have reinforced notions of solidarity and common crisis, as evidenced in the various biopolitical
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Companion species and comrades: a critique of ‘plural relating’ in Donna Haraway's theory manifestos Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Panos Kompatsiaris
This paper explores Donna Haraway's manifesto writing, focusing on the ethical prescription of how to relate with human and nonhuman others. Haraway prescribes a compass, however broad, about how t...
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Epistemology of the unspeakable: articulating and thinking beyond shock and non/presence Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Anonymous
ABSTRACT Through an account of the forms of embodied knowledge that arise at the intersection of autism and childhood sexual abuse, this personal-theoretical essay develops an epistemology of the unspeakable. I uncover the epistemic implications of a common response to ‘unspeakable’ accounts of injustice, namely the expression of shock and surprise. Furthermore, informed by feminist, anti-racist and
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Biomedical technocracy, the networked public sphere and the biopolitics of COVID-19: notes on the Agamben affair Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Tim Christiaens
ABSTRACT Giorgio Agamben’s public interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic against emergency measures like lockdowns, obligatory vaccinations and the prescribed use of masks have been highly controversial. I argue that Agamben’s essays must be read as a modern prophecy of doom warning for the dangers of biomedical technocracy. Agamben marshals the sound of Old Testament prophets to shock his readers
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Monstrosity as resistance: rethinking trans embodiment beyond the rhetoric of the wrong body Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Caterina Nirta
ABSTRACT While the production of monsters through political and cultural discourses has never been as dominant as in recent years, the method through which this phenomenon is framed often remains engulfed in comparative essentialism reducing monsters to acts of transgression, with the inevitable result of articulating monstrosity as mere construction of the other. Such othered identity deprives monsters
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America’s dark harbingers: a genealogical analysis of self-disposing right-wing subjects during the pandemic Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Austin McNeill Brown
ABSTRACT This essay will review the emergence of the anti-public health practices of politically motivated individuals during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Thousands of Americans, largely part of the far-right and libertarian front, have died due to their insistence on ‘freedom’ from the imposition of public health and vaccine mandates. In the abstract, I define these as self-disposing political subjects
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Reimagining the future with liminal agents: critical interdisciplinary STS as manifestos for anti-essentialist solidarities Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-07-24 Ihnji Jon
This paper traces the recent trend in interdisciplinary Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially those of the Black feminist tradition, to make an argument for how its critical scholarship ...
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Australian Trompe l’Oeil and mimicry: illusionism and identity in the era of colonial modernity Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Anna Daly
ABSTRACT In ‘Of Mimicry and Man’, Homi K. Bhabha hints at a connection between discourses surrounding perspectival representation and those surrounding colonialism by noting that trompe l’oeil, alongside irony, repetition and mimicry, is a trait with which colonial texts are replete. The inclusion of a textbook ‘mimic man’ in a mid nineteenth-century Australian trompe l’oeil painting suggests that
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Cut and dried: re-claiming land in Singapore Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Beverly Fok
ABSTRACT After seventy years of concerted expansion, reclaimed land now makes up a quarter of Singapore’s total landmass. Cut out of the sea, this artificial land aspires to cut to the chain of causality: to self-found and so give law to itself (auto-nomos). From what vantage point can one capture that sovereign gesture, whose structure is that of recursion? To venture an answer, I first proceed by
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‘I must first apologise’. Advance-fee scam letters as manifestos Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Galia Yanoshevsky
Advance-fee scam letters are email messages designed to engage the recipient in a fraudulent business partnership involving an initial investment on his/her part for the sake of making a large prof...
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The Black Feminism Remix Lab: on Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Francesca Sobande, Akwugo Emejulu
We began to work together in 2016 as two of the co-organisers of the first Black Feminism, Womanism, and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe symposium at the University of Edinburgh in Septem...
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Introduction to playces: special issue on spaces of play Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Melissa Shani Brown, Celia Lam
ABSTRACT This special issue explores the intersections between notions of play and space. The notion of play as a space provokes questions about boundaries, and differentiations between spaces of play and not-play. While the notion of the space of play as – in one way or another – delimited is a recurring theme in conceptualisations of play, the contributions to this special issue are united by their
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Fan pilgrimage and Thai genre films: play, space and the search for vernacular cultural sites Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-11-21 Wikanda Promkhuntong
ABSTRACT This paper extends the notion of film tourism in the context of Thailand from the focus on destination marketing to affective connections between film locations and fans. Combining frameworks from fan studies particularly the notion of pilgrimage, and a conceptual way of linking play with space in game and architectural studies, the paper examines playful practices at film locations and associated
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Play and manifestations of playfulness in interactive and immersive museum spaces Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Irida Ntalla
ABSTRACT The paper critically examines connections of play in interactive and immersive spaces that comment on climate and environmental crisis. The analysis of a playful museum space with a focus on the responses of the audience members emphasises how this type of environment brings play and playfulness to the foreground while engaging with a topic that can be abstract, perplexing and formidable to
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Language games with ‘Manifesto’ Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Nana Ariel
What happens when ‘manifesto’, as the emblem of a committed artistic or political action, is used as the title of consumer products such as perfume? What do critics mean when they say that a certai...
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Introduction: theorising special territorial status and extraterritoriality Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Zachary T. Androus, Magdalena Stawkowski, Robert Kopack
ABSTRACT The goal of this special issue is to offer critical explorations of territoriality both in historical and within contemporary special territorial designations, with a specific focus on space, place, and landscape rather than just individuals. The articles in the issue are linked by their novel application of the principal of extraterritoriality to special territorial designations of various
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Pushing through the skin to break the bones: Israel's performance of extraterritorial expansion into West Bank, Palestine Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Hilary Cooperman
ABSTRACT This paper argues the built structure of Israeli military occupation in the West Bank is only part of the mechanism that serves to define territorial boundaries and restrict Palestinian movement. A more pervasive and debilitating process of boundary formation occurs through affect-laden performances that typically take place in border areas or sites of surveillance, where state actors and
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Infrastructural extraterritoriality on the waterfront: jurisdiction at the Port of New York, 1857–1921 Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Nick Lombardo
ABSTRACT Between 1857 and 1921, the Port of New York’s waterfront infrastructure was the target of jurisdictional extraterritorialisation that would remove its control from local hands within the nation state. I present a case study of this process to understand how infrastructural extraterritoriality functions as a state response to the central tension of infrastructure: fixity and flow. This tension
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Jobseeking as pilgrimage: trials of faith in the labour market Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-30 Tom Boland
ABSTRACT Jobseeking is increasingly frequent within contemporary labour markets characterised by temporary contracts, flexible projects and precarious ‘gig-work’ – with economic shocks such as the Financial Crash and COVID-19 pandemic creating waves of redundancy and mass unemployment. How individual job-changers and jobseekers make sense of their experiences and shape their own conduct is explored
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‘Orgies in the Garden of Heaven’ – the pornographic playground of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Melissa Shani Brown, Jude Roberts
ABSTRACT In this article we situate Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls as a ‘pornographic playground' arguing that it is through ‘play' that the text is able to position itself as serious and not-serious simultaneously, something central to its navigation of the ethics of its pornographic mode. Contextualising our analysis by considering the relative absence of ‘sex' as an example of ‘play'
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Baikonur 2.0: ‘inland-offshore’ space economies in post-Soviet Kazakhstan Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Robert Kopack
ABSTRACT The global space industry brings to mind the horizons of science and technology, large rockets, and heroic astronauts. The land and infrastructure used to launch things into the cosmos, however, is far less seen. Since the mid-1950s, large territories or ‘fall zones’ in the Kazakh steppe have been used for jettisoning stages of inter-continental ballistic missiles and other kinds of carrier
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Landscape syncope: desire, power and the presence–absence of landscape Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Efrat Hildesheim
ABSTRACT The article conceptualises the notion of the landscape syncope: a political landscape performance generated by desire, which affects landscape perception. The syncopal mode involves a core of absence that pertains to a topographical gap mediated by suspension, movement and revelation. The article explores three case studies that address designed and seemingly natural landscapes – the ‘ha-ha’
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Quantifying music: imagined metrics in digital startup culture Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Thomas Hodgson
ABSTRACT This paper examines the lived experiences and ethical dilemmas of investors and staff in London’s digital music startup culture. Startups often rely on what I term ‘imagined metrics’ to attract investment and to measure the efficacy of their technologies. However, this stands in stark contrast to the qualitative ways music is understood within these organisations and subsequently experienced
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Amateur mortality Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Maxwell Hyett
ABSTRACT Near the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi published three short meditations on the possible, not probable, outcome of the pandemic. Due to the sudden imposition of isolation and concrete needs, Berardi suggests that death has re-entered contemporary discourse. As a consequence, he speculates that the capitalist postponement of joy may be replaced by time as enjoyment
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How risk is shared: an interview with Anne McGuire Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Francis Russell, Anne McGuire
ABSTRACT This interview was conducted via email in late 2020 in preparation for Lockdown: Mental Illness, Wellness, and COVID-19, a three-day online conference organised by myself, Madison Magladry (Curtin University), Debra Shaw (University of East London), and Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London). Anne McGuire had agreed to speak as a keynote, but time differences between Western Australia
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Rethinking the heteronormative foundations of kinship: the reification of the heterosexual nuclear family unit in Singapore’s COVID-19 circuit-breaker restrictions Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Pavan Mano
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 global pandemic necessitated nationwide lockdowns in many countries and Singapore was no different, announcing an eight-week ‘circuit-breaker’ in the beginning of April 2020. When it ended, the Singaporean government announced that restrictions on physical interactions would be eased in three phases. In Phase 1, all physical interactions between households continued to be disallowed
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From calculation to deliberation: the contemporaneity of Dewey Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Patrycja Kaszynska
ABSTRACT The word crisis comes from Ancient Greek κρίσις which can be translated as ‘power of distinguishing’ and is related to modern κρίνω which means ‘to pick out’. This is apt, because the pandemic of 2020 has exposed the limitation of approaches to social governance premised on calculation. The – some would argue false – choice between either saving lives or the economy, is the highest profile
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Extraterritoriality at the end of life: disregard and the exceptional in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Devin Flaherty
ABSTRACT This article approaches the theorisation of extraterritoriality through an ethnographic examination of the shaping of end-of-life experiences and trajectories through federal healthcare governance in St. Croix, an island in the unincorporated territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawing on critical phenomenological approaches to the organisation of attention, I advance disregard as a central
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The future of critical theory: on the courage and limitations of Bernard Harcourt’s Critique & Praxis Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Benjamin P. Davis
ABSTRACT This review essay examines prominent definitions of Critical Theory today. Many of these definitions frame Critical Theory as a broad project that distinguishes itself from other theories by working across disciplines in order to contribute to emancipatory movements. Defined thus, Critical Theory serves as an umbrella term under which would sit, for instance, feminist, decolonial and intersectional
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Musical feelings and affective politics Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Anaar Desai-Stephens, Nicole Reisnour
(2020). Musical feelings and affective politics. Culture, Theory and Critique: Vol. 61, Musical Feelings and Affective Politics, pp. 99-111.
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Performing pain: Sindhi Sufi music, affect, and Hindu-Muslim relations in western India Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Brian E. Bond
ABSTRACT This article examines the affective enactment of the Sufi emotional concept of the pain of separation by Muslim singers in Kachchh, Gujarat, a border region in western India adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan. In a discussion of two musical genres that feature the Sufi poetry of Shāh ‘Abdul Lat̤īf Bhiṭā’ī (1689–1752 CE) – kāfī and shāh jo rāg̈ – I argue that the musical performance of pain is ethically
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If you sing, you will surely feel happy: the affect-emotion gap and the efficacy of devotional song in Bali Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Nicole Reisnour
ABSTRACT This essay examines the social efficacy of musically mediated religious feeling, drawing on fieldwork conducted with a community of Balinese Hindus who have become devotees of ISKCON, the international devotional movement popularly known as the Hare Krishnas. Through analysis of my conversations and musical interactions with members of this community, I argue that ISKCON’s narratives and practices
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What is it like to be a crane? Notes on Alevi semah and the Sivas massacre Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Peter McMurray
ABSTRACT Semah is an Alevi ritual practice performed throughout Anatolia (Turkey) and the Alevi diaspora consisting of collective, dance-like movements that often take on or mimic the movements of animals, especially cranes. In attempting to elucidate that interplay between human performer and sacred animal, I draw on theoretical writings (especially philosophy and affect theory) about how people might
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On theory, citational practices and personal accountability in the study of music and affect Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Denise Gill
ABSTRACT This essay attends to select affective politics of theoretical practices in the study of music and affect. Concentrating on EuroAmerican theoretical frames, I address how assumptions generating key theories in affect studies complicate ethnographic analyses of musics emanating from various historical, social and cultural locations. I attend to challenges that object-oriented approaches provide
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Ambiguous jurisdictions: navigating U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones as extraterritorial spaces Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Ann E. Kingsolver
ABSTRACT This article explores the potential for exploitation of jurisdictional ambiguity presented by Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) in the United States as extraterritorial spaces within national territory. Nearly half a million people work in hundreds of U.S. FTZs. Transnational corporations are increasingly, with states’ assistance, operating in rural FTZs and asserting extrajudicial authority to create
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Consciousness as a domain of extraterritoriality Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Joshua Falcon
ABSTRACT Traditional understandings of extraterritoriality have overlooked human consciousness as an intimate province of territorial governance. Whereas traditional approaches to extraterritoriality often adopt a modernist understanding of territory, this article expands on the concept by referring to extraterritoriality as the process and practice of discovering, reifying and intervening in new domains
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Criminals at play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Wyatt Moss-Wellington
ABSTRACT This article investigates three storytelling arts as spaces of narrative play: theatre, film and narrative-based gaming. It traces the lineage from Oedipus Rex and early tragic theatre to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film Rope, followed by The Walking Dead Telltale Games series, relating how each text presents protagonists who are marked as criminal from the opening of the narrative. Rope and The
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The longue durée of extraterritoriality and global capital Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-03-27 Moritz Anselm Mihatsch, Michael Mulligan
ABSTRACT This article investigates the shifting nature of the concept of extraterritoriality at particular junctures in history from the Italian city states to contemporary visions of floating micro-sovereignties. Extraterritoriality is the exercise of the jurisdiction by one state or non-state actor within the territory of another state. Since extraterritoriality is a challenge to the fundamental