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…
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…