Mediating 'Biopolitics and Connective Mutation' by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi from vol. 7 (2005) Biopolitics In ‘Biopolitics and Connective Mutation’, Bifo addresses the relation between digital technology and contemporary subjectivity. He begins by…
Mediating 'Putting Community Under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on the Plurality of Singularities' by Marie-Eve Morin from vol. 8 (2006) Community Towards the end of October 2007 an extraordinary rainfall took…
Mediating Tiziana Terranova’s 'Attention Economy and the Brain' and Bernard Stiegler’s 'Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon', from vol. 13 (2012) Paying Attention The very fact of perceiving, of attending, is…
Mediating 'Poesis,Autopoesis,Autopoethics' by Ed Cohen from vol.3 (2001) Virologies: Culture and Contamination People everywhere have perceived the dog as straddling this world and the next, linking nature and culture, sky and…
Mediating 'Rethinking the Digital Humanities in the Context of Originary Technicity' by Federica Frabetti from vol 12 (2011) The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing Culture Machine devoted its 2012 issue to the…
In The Posthuman, Rosi Braidotti complains about critical thought ‘after the great explosion of theoretical creativity of the 1970s and 1980s’: it was as if ‘we had entered a zombified…
Nick Couldry and Angela McRobbie Something important died on 12 October 2010: the idea of the university in England. Perhaps 'received its death warrant' would be more accurate than 'died'.…
Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719055997 Rich Cante One afternoon this spring I crossed the tingly threshold that separates my psychiatrist's office from his waiting room, as I had a…
Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. ISBN 90-5662-526-8.. Kirsty Robertson Ned Rossiter's complex and thought-provoking book, Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, focuses on emergent institutional forms characterizing systems of networked communication.…
Cambridge and London: MIT Press. ISBN 0262232472. Meredith Jones Marshall McLuhan wrote in Understanding Media (1964) that 'the medium is the message', meaning not only that subject matter and technical form are…