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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Hardt and Negri"”.
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Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
… of black America to that of a Negro Demagogue and Ebon Pied Piper, immediately casts into doubt the ability of and desirability for a single person to represent such a wide spectrum of particular entities. Instead, what becomes clear is that such a reductive form of representation serves only …
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Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
… of black America to that of a Negro Demagogue and Ebon Pied Piper, immediately casts into doubt the ability of and desirability for a single person to represent such a wide spectrum of particular entities. Instead, what becomes clear is that such a reductive form of representation serves only …
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Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?
This dissertation explores how different understandings of power in IR theory lead to different understandings of world order. In particular, I examine how notions of power have informed recent 'debate about empire' and what the term empire might usefully mean in the context of contemporary …
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If We Make It, We Can Change It
For the art critic Claire Bishop ‘collectivity and collaboration have been some of the most persistent themes of advanced art and exhibition-making of the last decade’ (2012, p.12). I will bring with this thesis a new contribution to this discourse by reflecting on the specificity and potential of …
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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
… of film noir as sovereign-image, a meta-generic and meta-cinematic discourse that confronts the viewer with the biopolitical ambivalence of the cinematic apparatus but enjoins her to nonetheless affirm its normative use. I argue that classical American noir deploys a proto-neoliberal ideology to …
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Stealing Empire : debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property
… subjects in the context of global capitalism and the information age. The key question that is addressed is whether transnational corporations have appropriated aspects of cultural identity, creative expression and technological innovation for their own enrichment - to the detriment of civil …
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Hidden Hout Bay mainstream, myths and margins
… a picture that lies behind the glossy postcard and calendar photographs of this global tourist attraction; one that lies hidden from foreign tourists as well as from local visitors to the harbour, who are attracted by sunset trips into the bay and ‘locally harvested’ sea-food ‘fresh from the …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a …
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Neo-liberalism, socialism and governmentality : has socialism yet developed an autonomous governmentality?
… clear political connotations. Within the 1978 and 1979 series Foucault outlined the concept of governmentality, which he divided into two subcategories: the police-state and liberalism. He also considered socialism’s relationship to governmentality. In this instance, however, he argued that …
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Anish Kapoor: The Formation of a Global Art
… minimalism; the traditions of modern painting; and the artist’s own personal diasporic narrative. It will demonstrate how Kapoor is a transgressive global artist, concerned not only with rethinking the longstanding question of artistic form, but also with the enduring process central to the …