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.

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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.
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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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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
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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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