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Abstract:"New Eelam" is a cloud-based digital subscription housing project offering ideal homes to footloose "global citizens" who practice high mobility, postpolitical utopianism, and minimalist interior design. This article uncovers the political and cultural significance of this dream of dematerialized existence in the work of the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas. Mapping the dematerialization of the art object onto the dematerializations of cloud computing and minimalist lifestyles, this article addresses two ongoing series: When Platitudes Become Form (2012–) and New Eelam (2016–). First, it explores how New Eelam conscripts its public into imagining itself as the morally and aesthetically superior advance-guard of a new world order. Then, it uses Kulendran Thomas's submerged invocation of the 1969 exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form to analyze how this experiment in "digital realty" uses dematerialization to solicit urgent realizations about the relationships between the contemporary art market, mass migration, and geopolitical reality.
摘要:“New Eelam”是一个基于云的数字订阅住房项目，为自由的“全球公民”提供理想的家园，他们实践高流动性、后政治乌托邦主义和极简主义的室内设计。这篇文章揭示了艺术家克里斯托弗·库伦德兰·托马斯作品中这种非物质化存在的梦想的政治和文化意义。这篇文章将艺术对象的非物质化映射到云计算和极简主义生活方式的非物质化上，讨论了两个正在进行的系列:当陈词滥调成为形式(2012 -)和新伊拉姆(2016 -)。首先，它探讨了新伊拉姆如何征召其公众将自己想象成道德和美学上优越的新世界秩序的先锋。然后，它使用了库伦德兰·托马斯(Kulendran Thomas)对1969年展览《活在你的脑海里》(Live in Your Head)的潜台词。《当态度变成形式》分析这个“数字现实”中的实验是如何利用非物质化来唤起人们对当代艺术市场、大规模移民和地缘政治现实之间关系的迫切认识。
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Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.
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