Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719073421. Kate O'Riordan Synopsis The Arc and the Machine interrogates and reconfigures debates in new media studies around information technologies and narrative. It contributes more broadly…
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748620230. Barry Stocker Smith's book covers an important area and is certainly worth reading, though it also contains some serious flaws. Scandalous Knowledge presents itself as an…
Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3567-0. In Defence of Good Breeding Jeremy Valentine In 2005 Comedy Central political satirist Stephen Colbert coined the word 'truthiness' to describe the…
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0-262-04235-2. Ashley Smith Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theatre, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation is a critical history of…
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-2106-7. Claire Burrows Sudesh Mishra's Diaspora Criticism offers a metacritical immersion into the burgeoning field of diaspora criticism. Mishra does not actually introduce an original theory, but…
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-4472-1. Adam Bryx Written in 1958 by Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape was inspired by a radio broadcast Beckett had heard on the BBC…
Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0-8047-5011-4. The meaning of critique in the age of technicity Gabriela Méndez Cota Against claims about the exhaustion and irrelevance of art these days, Krzysztof…
London and New York: Verso. ISBN-10: 1-84467-555-6. Little Affect: Hallward's Deleuze Gregory J. Seigworth I only have one thing to tell you: stick to the concrete, and always return to…
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 978-0-7486-2511-6 Internal Peripheries Paul Bowman Freud coined the oxymoronic term 'foreign internal territory' to 'describe the relation between the repressed and the ego' (Arditi, 2007:…
Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0-8223-3839-4 Federica Frabetti Mark Poster's new book starts with a charming anecdote. 'Information please' was what one used to say to a switchboard…