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Bruno Latour’s Mode(s) in Situations 布鲁诺·拉图尔的情境模式

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947949

Siavash Bakhtiar

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Identity and Ability: An Interview with Lennard J. Davis 身份与能力:伦纳德·j·戴维斯访谈

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947865

Jeffrey J. Williams

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Žižek

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947921

M. Gane

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Figures of Unwork and Ethics of Care: Between Knowing How to Live and Knowing How to Write 不工作的形象与关怀伦理:在懂得如何生活与懂得如何写作之间

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947879

Valeria Graziano

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Friendship, Sickness, and Biopolitics: Hervé Guibert’s Difficulty 友谊、疾病与生命政治:赫尔维尔·吉伯特的难题

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947963

J. Bell

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Care and Carelessness in the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler’s Three Conversions and Their Accompanying Heideggers 人类世的谨慎与粗心:斯蒂格勒的三种转变及其伴随的海德格尔

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947851

Danielle Ross

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Aesthetics after Trump 特朗普之后的美学

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947935

M. Arjomand

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The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity 政治的精神化与反抗体的技术——对绝食主体性的概念化

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947893

Ashjan Ajour

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A Pharmacology of Cinema 电影的药理学

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8947907

Amelie Berger Soraruff

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Viral Culture 病毒文化

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-03-31 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-8797445

J. Armitage, M. Featherstone

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