Sean Cubitt on technology, social
knowledge, dialectics, virtuality, and the futural politics and aesthetics
of media and communications technologies
The War Office: Everyday
Environments and War Logistics
Gair Dunlop writes on war and logistics whilst photographing the abandoned office spaces on disbanded squadron facilities at RAF Coltishall
The Intellectual Genealogies and
Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony
Bennett
Huimin Jin questions contemporary cultural studies by way of this interview with one of its leading figures, who discusses everything from the concept of governmentality to Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault
(The War on) Terrorism:
Destruction, Collapse, Mixture, Re-enforcement,
Construction
Leonie Ansems de Vries rethinks who committed suicide and what actually collapsed on September 11, 2001 in the light of contemporary urban despair and Jean Baudrillard's contentions concerning the dominant Western order
Pursuit in Paris
John Armitage visits the grave of Jean
Baudrillard, takes a few photographs, and wonders what he is doing
there
Field Report
Famous
for 15 Seconds
Kathe Burkhart exhibits her Liz Taylor
series of paintings and discusses celebrity culture in relation to her own
artistic practice
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
What is
Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson
Stefan Skrimshire on the revival of interest in utopian politics, John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Russell Jacoby, and Fredric Jameson
Book
Reviews
An
Analyst’s Couch for Architects
Li Shiqiao considers Neil Leach's
Camouflage, architectural theory, and post-phenomenological frameworks of
ontological thinking, mimesis, and architecture
Desiring a Coherent China
Emily Chua discusses Lisa Rofel's Desiring China, anthropology, and China's search for a post-Maoist narrative of national coherence
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