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The University in the World it is Attempting to Think – Peggy Kamuf

Vol 6 (2004) Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies The University in the World it is Attempting to Think Peggy Kamuf No, really, you'll have to help me. What is there…

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Vol 6 (2004) Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies Slashdoc Gary Hall, Dave Boothroyd, Joanna Zylinska Titles, as we know from reading Derrida, are important. Ours for this issue of Culture Machine…

‘Anarchic Vision’: Ocular Constructions of Race and the Challenge of Ethics

Dorota Glowacka Figure 1: Adrian Piper, My Calling (Card)1 What happens when the look is returned - when black people own the look and startle whites into knowledge of…

Gregory Dale Adamson (2002) Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital.

London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-6032-1. Stephen Dougherty The fate of the philosopher Henri Bergson seemed sealed by the closing decades of the twentieth century. Bergson, who in the…

Sarah Kember (2003) Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life.

London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415240271. Radhika Gajjala This is a fascinating book that takes us through an examination of hegemonies and contradictions embedded in discourses of microbiology, new biology, Artificial Intelligence…

(2002) Alternate Interfaces: Stelarc.

Faculty of Art & Design: Monash University. ISBN: 0-7326-2154-2. After obsolescence, what comes next? Adrian Mackenzie Much recent work on the Australian artist Stelarc expounds the idea that through technology…

Paul Virilio (2003) Art and Fear

Trans. J. Rose. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-6080-1 Icons of the Human Robert S. Oventile Barely a week into 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', American pundits began to worry that…

W. G. Sebald (2003). On the Natural History of Destruction

New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50484-2. Rewriting the Disaster Robert Leventhal The disaster is not somber, it would liberate us from everything if it could just have a relation with…

John Mowitt (2002). Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking

London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0-8223-2919-0. Paul Bowman Unless I am badly mistaken, John Mowitt's Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking (2002) is about misrecognition. Well, it is also about misrecognition. For, as its title clearly…

Randy Martin (2002). Financialization of Daily Life

Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-988-2. Market places:oikos, utopus, and globalization Gib Prettyman Randy Martin's Financialization of Daily Life is deeply immersed in its historical place and time, and as such it…