From: gary hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 March 2006 21:01
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Subject: Culture Machine New Issue: Community

We are pleased to announce a new edition of the open-access journal Culture
Machine:

CULTURE MACHINE 8 (2006)
http://www.culturemachine.net

COMMUNITY
Edited by Dorota Glowacka

In recent years, the notion of community has emerged as an important but
also contested field of enquiry. The 'new' discourse of community has
challenged the understanding of community as related to the nation-state,
and as an 'imagined' cultural and political artifact that provides a
collectivity with the sense of unity, continuity, and closure. Jacques
Derrida has insisted that such circumscribed articulations of community
conceal but also perpetrate foundational violence that underlies the
collective myth. Philosophical investigations of this myth by Jean-Luc
Nancy, Maurice Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben have opened up the concept of
community onto a broader politico-ethical and cultural context. Here,
Nancy's call for the disbanding of the immanent community has been
especially influential.
According to him, community as the dominant Western political formation,
founded upon a totalizing, exclusionary myth of national, racial or
religious unity, must be tirelessly 'unworked' in order to accommodate more
inclusive and fluid forms of Being-in-common, of dwelling together in the
world.

The contributors to this issue of Culture Machine navigate multiple tangents
of community as a socio-historical, politico-ethical, and cultural
construct. The authors comment on the nascent virtual or networked
communities as the forum for cultural avant-garde and politically
progressive forces but also as, potentially, the mainstay of political
conservatism. They ask about the function of community in rapidly shifting
geo-political contexts, of which the European community is a fecund if also
volatile contemporary example, as is the plethora of post-colonial,
post-Western articulations.

The 'Community' issue features:

* Editorial, 'Community: Comme-un?'

* Kuisma Korhonen, 'Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida'

* Ignass Devisch, 'The Sense of Being(-)with Jean-Luc Nancy'

* Marie-Eve Morin, 'Putting Community under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on
the Plurality of Singularities'

* Dorota Glowacka, 'Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-ontology in
Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy'

* Timothy J. Deines, 'Bartleby the Scrivener, Immanence and the Resistance
of Community'

* Angela Mitropoulos and Brett Neilson, 'Cutting Democracy's Knot'

* Paulina Tambakaki, 'Global Community, Global Citizenship?'

* Daniel H. Ortega, '"En Cada Barrio": Timocracy, Panopticism and the
Landscape of a Normalized Community'

* John Paul Ricco, 'The Surreality of Community: Frederic Brenner's
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile'

* Jake Kennedy, 'Gins, Arakawa and the Undying Community'

* Petra Kuppers, 'Community Arts Practices: Improvising Being-Together'

* Natalie Cherot, 'Transnational Adoptees: Global Biopolitical Orphans or an
Activist Community?'

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CONTRIBUTING TO CULTURE MACHINE

Culture Machine publishes new work from both established figures and
up-and-coming writers. It is fully refereed, and has an International
Advisory Board which includes Robert Bernasconi, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy
Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Avital Ronell and
Nicholas Royle. Among the distinguished contributors to the first seven
editions of Culture Machine are Mark Amerika, Alain Badiou, Geoffrey
Bennington, Bifo, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam, Johan
Fornäs, Henry A. Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, Stevan Harnad, N.
Katherine Hayles, Peggy Kamuf, David Kolb, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller,
Anna Munster, Michael Naas, Mark Poster, Melinda Rackham, Tadeusz Slawek,
Bernard Stiegler, Kenneth Surin, Gregory L. Ulmer, Hal Varian, Cathryn
Vasseleu and Samuel Weber.

Culture Machine welcomes original, unpublished submissions on any aspect of
culture and theory. All contributions to Culture Machine are refereed
anonymously. Anyone with material they wish to submit for publication is
invited to contact:

Culture Machine c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall
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All contributions will be peer-reviewed; all correspondence will be
responded to.

For more information, visit the Culture Machine site at:

http://www.culturemachine.net
or
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk



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Dr Gary Hall
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/subjects/mcc/mcs/index.htm
Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net My website
http://www.garyhall.info

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