Dear friends and colleagues

 

I am pleased to announce the publication of CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 6, Issue 1, November 2009, which is a General Issue.

 

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John

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Cultural Politics

 

Volume 6, Issue 1

 

March 2010

 

Articles

 

The Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun

André Gorz on the implications of the new capitalism’s reliance on immaterial contents for increasingly problematical reproduction and with the emancipator potential inherent in this situation.

 

Towers that Flower

Artists and poet Alec Finlay and photographer Alexander Maris explore the windmill turbine, the only monumental sculpture suited to symbolize the era of climate change.

 

An Extreme Case of Social Life: Inmate Society in National Socialist Concentration Camps

Maya Suderland critically reflects on the widely held view that, because the concentration camp represents an extreme case of a relationship of subordination, it cannot be examined from a social point of view.

 

Special Section on the Cultural Politics of Celebrity

The Cultural Politics of Celebrity

Philip Drake and Andy Miah consider celebrity as a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary culture, mass media, and the Internet that is inextricably linked to developments in media systems that operate within capitalist systems of commodity exchange.

 

News, Celebrity and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Michael Jackson Verdict

Gary Whannel examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production or what Whannel conceptualizes as ‘Vortextuality’ with reference to the coverage of the verdict announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson.

 

Unsolicited Submission

American artist David Levine’s project about unsolicited wannabe celebrity submissions to talent and other cultural agencies is a multidisciplinary and multiyear project of gathering, analysing, and archiving such unsolicited submissions in every field of cultural endeavour.

 

The ‘Public Inquisitor’ as Media Celebrity

Michael Higgins looks at the development and utility of celebrity among high-profile political interviewers, offering the revised description of ‘public inquisitor’ to describe the rise of the political interviewer as a celebrity form.

 

‘As Seen on TV’: The Celebrity Expert: How Taste is shaped by Lifestyle Media

Helen Powell and Sylvie Prasad examine how television, print, and advertising contribute to the construction of media stars such as Jamie Oliver whose function is to transfer knowledge of particular lifestyles to the lived experience of ordinary people.

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About Cultural Politics

 

“Cultural Politics is a welcome and innovative addition.  In an academic universe already well populated with journals, it is carving out its own unique place—broad and a bit quirky.  It likes to leap between the theoretical and the concrete, so that it is never boring and often filled with illuminating glimpses into the intellectual and cultural worlds.” Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, USA.

 

Edited by

John Armitage, Northumbria University, UK 
Ryan Bishop, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. It analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In doing so, the journal explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. It investigates the marginalized and outer regions of this complex and interdisciplinary subject area.

Each issue publishes artwork by selected artists reflecting contemporary cultural and political issues.

 

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WANT TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE OR BOOK REVIEW?

 

1)  Manuscript Submissions

Should you have an article you would like to submit, please write to the editors:

 

Dr John Armitage

Head of Department of Media

Co-editor, Cultural Politics

School of Arts & Social Sciences

Room SQ318d, Squires Building

Northumbria University

Newcastle upon Tyne

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And

Dr Ryan Bishop
Co-Editor, Cultural Politics
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The National University of Singapore
Department of English
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Singapore 117570
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2) Book Reviews

Please contact Mark Featherstone for consideration for review in Cultural Politics.

Dr Mark Featherstone
Book Reviews Editor
Cultural Politics
Sociology
CESSW, Keele University
Keele ST5 5BG
Staffordshire
UK

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