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From: John Armitage [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 05 June 2010 08:31 Subject: NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ON BERNARD STIEGLER: CULTURAL POLITICS VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, JULY 2010 Dear friends and colleagues I am pleased to announce the publication of CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 6, Issue 2, JULY 2010, which is a Special Issue on the French philosopher of technology and political activist Bernard Stiegler, guest edited by Patrick Crogan. Official website here: http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/CulturalPolitics/tabid/520/Default.aspx Cultural Politics’ Artists’ website here: http://newsgrist.typepad.com/culturalpolitics/ Subscribe here: http://www.bergpublishers.com/JournalsHomepage/CustomerServices/SubscribeRenew/tabid/3420/Default.aspx Please feel free to circulate this message to any relevant email lists etc. Best wishes. John 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 NE1 8ST (e) (w): [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (e) (h): [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (t) Blackberry: +44 (0)7966977782 (t) Office: +44 (0)191 227 4971 Visit the Cultural Politics website at: http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/CulturalPolitics/tabid/520/Default.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cultural Politics Volume 6, Issue 2 SPECIAL ISSUE ON BERNARD STIEGLER July 2010 Articles Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics, And Activism Patrick Crogan on the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler’s philosophy of technology and its relevance for critical explorations between culture and the political. Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler Patrick Crogan probes the cultural and political dimensions of Bernard Stiegler’s enterprise, including his conceptualization of contemporary social and cultural, political and environmental crises. Telecracy Against Democracy Bernard Stiegler critically reflects on what he terms ‘telecracy’ or the ruination of democracy and citizenship by the short-circuiting of the normal mechanisms of politics by way of television and the wider televisual program industries. Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler Richard Beardsworth considers Stiegler’s contribution to contemporary critical theory as a singular understanding of technology indebted to the Marxist analysis of capitalism and Freudian libidinal economy. Song of Russia Yevgeniy Fiks artwork, ‘Song of Russia’, is a series of oil paintings based on imagery borrowed from what Stiegler calls the ‘program industries’ or, in this case, three sympathetic Hollywood films about Russia that were produced at the behest of President Franklin D Roosevelt between 1943 and 1944, inclusive of North Star, Song of Russia, and Mission to Moscow. Bernard Stiegler and the Time of Technics Ian James examines Stiegler’s thinking about technics as developed in his Technics and Time trilogy, his relationship to Francis Fukuyama’s ideas on technology, history, and progress, as well to a number of other contemporary critical theorists such as Paul Virilio. The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study Gilbert Simondon looks at human progress and production, language and religion in relation to technical progress after the Renaissance. Are people agents or subjects of development or both and what are the implications for the industrial system? What New Humanism Today? Jean-Hugues Barthelemy argues for a reading of humanism and Enlightenment that strips them of their scientistic and Eurocentric implications and makes the values of both available for contemporary appropriation by way of Simondon, Marx, and Heidegger. Kant Avec Ferry: Some Thoughts on Bernard Stiegler’s Prendre Soin: I. De La Jeunesse et des Generations Chris Turner on Stiegler’s understanding of the import of the neoliberal turn, the barbarism of the market, and the psychopower of the program industries as individuals are targeted merely as consumers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. Official website here: http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/CulturalPolitics/tabid/520/Default.aspx Cultural Politics’ Artists’ website here: http://newsgrist.typepad.com/culturalpolitics/ Subscribe here: http://www.bergpublishers.com/JournalsHomepage/CustomerServices/SubscribeRenew/tabid/3420/Default.aspx 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 NE1 8ST (e) (w): [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> e) (h): [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (t) Blackberry: +44 (0)7966977782 (t) Office: +44 (0)191 227 4971 Visit the Cultural Politics website at: http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/CulturalPolitics/tabid/520/Default.aspx And Dr Ryan Bishop Co-Editor, Cultural Politics Associate Professor of English The National University of Singapore Department of English AS5, Arts Link Singapore 117570 Tel. + 65-6874 6633 Fax: + 65-6773 2981 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>