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Sent: 20 March 2003 12:02
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Subject: New Issue: Culture Machine 5


Now available....

CULTURE MACHINE 5 (2003)
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk

The e-Issue

Edited by Gary Hall

Featuring:

N. Katherine Hayles, 'Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic
Literature'

Mark Amerika, 'Literary Ghosts'

Ted Striphas, 'Book 2.0'

Andy Miah, '(e)text: Error...404 Not Found! or The Disappearance of
History'

Gary Hall, 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate
Copy)'

Alan Clinton, 'Wavespeech, Tapespeech, Blipspeech'

Charlie Gere, 'Can Art History Go On Without a Body?'

Anna Munster, '"This Fanciful and Colourful Image": The Image of New
Media within the Contemporary Art-Science Nexus'

Cathryn Vasseleu, 'What is Virtual Light?'

Chris Chesher, 'Layers of Code, Layers of Subjectivity'

Gregory L. Ulmer, 'After Method: The Remake (Introduction to Ackeracy in
Reporting)'

Gregory L. Ulmer, 'Ackeracy in Reporting (Last Supper in Santa Barbara
by Paolo Veronese)'

Bernard Stiegler, 'Our Ailing Educational Institutions'


Culture Machine welcomes original, unpublished, unsolicited submissions
on any aspect of culture and theory. Anyone with material they would
like to submit for publication is invited to contact:

Culture Machine c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall

e-mail: [log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask]

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Call for Contributions

Culture Machine 6: Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies

February, 2004

Editors for this issue: Gary Hall, Dave Boothroyd and Joanna Zylinska

Cultural studies has often described deconstruction in rather pejorative
terms. Deconstruction has been criticized for being too textual and
theoretical, too concerned with meaning and language, and therefore more
suited to the concerns of literature and philosophy than to cultural
studies and its desire to get down and dirty with the real world of
concrete political materiality. As a result, deconstruction has been
somewhat marginalized by the move away from 'theory' and 'back to
reality' and the economic that took place within cultural studies over
the course of the 1990s. However, recent years have seen the gradual
emergence of a newer generation of  cultural studies writers and
practitioners many of whom, while clearly locating themselves in the
tradition of Hoggart, Williams and Hall, nevertheless regard
deconstruction and deconstructive modes of thinking as extremely
important to their work.

For this issue of Culture Machine we are inviting contributions on any
aspect of the relation between cultural studies and deconstruction, as
well as between 'old' and 'new' cultural studies.

Indicative questions to be addressed include:

Why should cultural studies be interested in deconstruction? Can
deconstruction help to        think through some of the problems in
contemporary cultural studies: the relation between        culture and
society, the cultural and the economic, cultural studies and political
economy,        Marxism and post-Marxism, theory and politics, agency
and structure, textuality and lived       experience, the subject and
the social?

What are the consequences for cultural studies, and for our
understanding of culture, of        recent 'deconstructive' work on
politics, ethics, justice, responsibility, performativity, the
institution of the university, teletechnologies, spectrality, the 'New
International',        hospitality, the foreigner, the parasite,
cosmopolitanism, forgiveness, secrecy, friendship,        experimenting,
the future?

Why should deconstruction be interested in cultural studies? Is the
latter as interesting as,        say, literature or philosophy? Is
cultural studies capable of providing anything that other        modes
of enquiry cannot achieve more easily/interestingly/rigorously?

Can deconstruction be 'applied' to cultural studies? Is cultural studies
already in deconstruction? Can there be a 'deconstructive cultural
studies'? Is a certain pervertibility and experience of mobility,
transition, translation, transformation and change not what makes
cultural studies at once both possible and impossible?

As always, contributions which take advantage of and explore the effects
of electronic media technologies in their form, as well as content, are
welcomed.

Deadline for submissions: October 2003.

Contact:
Gary Hall
School of Arts
Middlesex University
White Hart Lane
London N17 8HR
UK
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

All contributions will be peer-reviewed; all correspondence will be
responded to.

For more information, visit the Culture Machine site at:

http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk

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