Culture Machine

Charles R. Acland (ed.) (2007) Residual Media.

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…

Krzysztof Ziarek (2004) The Force of Art.

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…

Peter Hallward (2006) Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation.

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…

Benjamin Arditi (2007) Politics on the Edges of Liberalism: Difference, Populism, Revolution, Agitation.

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:…

Mark Poster (2006) Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines.

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…

The Somnambulist and the Hermaphrodite: Deleuze and Johann de Montereggio and Occultism

Christian Kerslake One of Gilles Deleuze's first articles, published in 1946, was an introduction to a new French edition of an arcane work of philosophy bearing the title Mathesis: or Studies…

Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction – Dan Hays

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction Dan Hays The proliferation of digital photographs on the Internet is incomprehensibly vast. These images owe much to the…

Rhythms and Refrains: A Brief History of Australian Electronica – Ross Harley, Andrew Murphie

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Rhythms and Refrains: A Brief History of Australian Electronica Ross Harley & Andrew Murphie Electronic music has played an important role in Australian popular music since…

8 TRACK RHAPSODY – Gary Genosko

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings 8 TRACK RHAPSODY Gary Genosko Cultural historians of the formats and associated technologies of pre-recorded popular music do not look kindly upon the 8-track tape. Fortunately,…

Mapping the Studion (Fat Chance Matmos): Sonic Culture, Visual Arts and the Mediations of the Artist’s Workplace – Jérôme Hansen

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Mapping the Studion (Fat Chance Matmos): Sonic Culture, Visual Arts and the Mediations of the Artist's Workplace Jérôme Hansen 'Artistic praxis in media worlds is…