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Community: Commme-un? Dorota Glowacka

Vol 8 (2006) Community Community: Commme-un? Dorota Glowacka In recent years, the notion of community has emerged as an important but also contested field of enquiry. The 'new' discourse of…

Can Desire Go On Without A Body? Pornographic Exchange and the Death of the Sun

Dougal Phillips 'While we talk, the sun is getting older' Jean-François Lyotard) Introduction One statistic among many: Every day there are 68 million search engine requests for pornographic material, making…

Jacques Rancière (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible

Trans. and introd. Gabriel Rockhill. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-7067-X. Sean Sayers Jacques Rancière is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides…

Dianne Chisholm (2004) Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City

Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0816644047. Catharina Landström In Queer Constellations (2004) Dianne Chisholm extends the territory of literary scholarship beyond the analysis of writing. She develops theory, reconfigures…

Vincent Mosco (2004) The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace.

Cambridge and London: MIT Press. ISBN: 026213439X Bernadette Wegenstein The Digital Sublime is a useful book for those of us semioticians who are interested in understanding the discourse universe around and…

Matthew Wilkens (ed.) (2005) ‘The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’, Polygraph 17

ISSN 1533-9793 Encountering Badiou Benjamin Noys 'While dialogues are commonplace, encounters are rare'. (Zizek, 2004: xi) In his book on Deleuze Alain Badiou notes, with obvious approval, that Deleuze 'felt…

Colin Davis (2004) After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory.

London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31609-X. Reading Remains Iain Morland '"My death, is it possible?" asked the late philosopher Jacques Derrida in his book Aporias', reported the web log Low Culture (2004);…

Josh Cohen (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy.

New York and London: Continuum. ISBN 0 8264 5552 2. Dorota Glowacka Shortly after the first images from the Nazi death camps shocked the Western world into moral stupor, political…

George Yúdice (2003) The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era.

Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0-8223-3168-3. Elizabeth Walden In her article 'Resisting Left Melancholia,' Wendy Brown castigates 'a left that has become more attached to its impossibility than…

Christopher Fynsk (2004) The Claim of Language

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0816644829. The claim of the humanities: A dialogue between Simon Morgan Wortham and Christopher Fynsk Simon Morgan Wortham Christopher Fynsk's most recent book, The Claim…