From: John Armitage [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 February 2008 13:18
Subject: CULTURAL POLITICS 4 (1): MARCH 2008 - NEW ISSUE OUT NOW!

Dear friends and colleagues
 
The latest issue of Cultural Politics, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2008, has just been published.
 
The Table of Contents is below.
 
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Best wishes.
 
John
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Cultural Politics
Volume 4
Number 1
March 2008
 
The Voice of the People? Musicians as Political Actors

Seth Hague, John Street, and Heather Savigny on Bob Geldof, Live 8 and the legacies of Rock Against Racism

 

Making Space: Image-Events in an Extreme State

Johanna Drucker asks whether in our image-saturated culture works of imaginative art can have any impact?

 

Enjoying Neoliberalism

Jodi Dean on Slavoj Zizek, ideology, and the global formations of the neoliberal order

 

‘Wikivism’: From Communicative Capitalism to Organized Networks

Paul Stacey on the cultures of networked technologies, Wikis, and postrepresentative politics

 

Field Report

Can a Place Think? On Adam Sharr’s Heidegger’s Hut

Timothy Clark on Heidegger's work hut at Todtnauberg, contemporary thought , and the 'earth'

 

Book Review Essay

Academics Behaving Badly

Ian Gordon on intellectuals, their duties, and their engagements in Eric Lott's The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual and Stefan Collini's Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain 

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