From: Gary Hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 October 2006 10:20
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Subject: Culture Machine: New Review, Book and Deposits

CULTURE MACHINE <http://www.culturemachine.net> is pleased to announce the
publication of the following:

1. NEW BOOK REVIEW:

* Timothy Clark (2005), The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist
Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press. Reviewed by Robert Eaglestone.

Timothy Clark is one of the best-kept secrets of British intellectual and
literary-theoretical life. Quietly working away, specialising in the fertile
ground which mixes Romanticism, European philosophy and literary theory, he
has produced some of the most striking and demanding work in this field in
English.... Clark's work in general is characterised by scholarly care and
scrupulous attention, by a commitment to its own motivation and movement and
by its wide range of reference and scope of thought ... The Poetics of
Singularity takes it place as one of the most thoughtful and meticulous
works in what it calls, uneasily, the 'school of singularity' and what
others have named the 'New Aestheticism'. This name brings together a number
of fairly disparate thinkers and finds in them a central idea: that art is
not simply re- or pre-baked ideology, but something important, revelatory
and foundational in its own right....

The review is available at:
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/bk_rev.htm

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2. NEW BOOK IN THE CULTURE MACHINE SERIES:

* Clare Birchall (2006), Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to
Gossip, Oxford and New York: Berg. ISBN:1 84520 143 4

A voice on late night radio tells you that Kentucky Fried Chicken injects
its food with drugs that render men impotent. An alien abductee on the
Internet claims extraterrestrials have planted a microchip in her left
buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip
mag.

Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our
everyday experience. We mediate and are mediated by them; they influence the
way we position ourselves in the world and shape the way we imagine the
world works. Naming such wayward phenomena 'knowledge' prompts vital
questions about the status of legitimacy. Do popular knowledges get
marginalized by official discourse? Why does their irrepressible presence
cause so much institutional anxiety?

Clare Birchall's dual enquiry asks not only what cultural studies can tell
us about the politics of popular knowledges (at a time when wars can be
waged on the basis of gossip and conspiracy theory saturates all kinds of
public discourse), but also what popular knowledges can tell us about
cultural studies itself as a discipline of uncertain, ambiguous legitimacy
and marginal origins.

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3. NEW DEPOSITS IN THE CSeARCH OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVE

These include:

* Paul Bowman, (2006), 'McDeconstruction; or: (Trans)Mission Impossible',
paper given at IAPL annual conference, Freiburg, Germany

* Marq Smith (2005), 'Visual Studies, or the Ossification of Thought',
Journal of Visual Culture, 2005, 4

* Anastasia Kavada (2005), 'Exploring the role of the internet in the
"movement for alternative globalization": The case of the Paris 2003
European Social Forum', Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture,
vol.2, no.1 June

* Mark Poster (1988), Critical Theory of the Family, New York: Continuum

The above are all available, for free, along with 600 + others, at:
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch



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