Two words are so indispensable to the vocabulary of the contemporary humanities that they barely seem to warrant discussion: 'culture' and 'discourse'. The one has been argued over endlessly in…
Guns, Youths and Hip-Hop -- a Few Familiar Stories The Wessex Scene, 23.01.031 It may sound absurd, but Birmingham is increasingly being compared to the worst parts of Los Angeles,…
[T]he refiguring of theory, made as a result of having to think questions of culture through the metaphors of language and textuality, represents a point beyond which cultural studies must…
From: 'Gary Hall" <g.hall@mdx.ac.uk> To: "Paul Bowman" < p.bowman@roehampton.ac.uk> Six huge and rather intimidating questions.1 How can I even begin to address the many different and difficult subjects they raise?…
These Humanities to come will cross disciplinary borders without dissolving the specificity of each discipline into what is called, often in a very confused way, 'interdisciplinarity' or into what is…
No, really, you'll have to help me. What is there to say about the relation between cultural studies and deconstruction? --You're kidding. There are endless things to say. --Precisely my…
Titles, as we know from reading Derrida, are important. Ours for this issue of Culture Machine is partly a reference to a collection from 1995, Deconstruction is/in America: A New…
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…
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…
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…