Recreational states In Birmingham cultural studies, particular groups were said to create new and unconventional social identities through the unpredictable 'uses' they made of consumer culture. This vision of social…
It is thanks to Michel Foucault that the theme of subjectivity has definitively been freed from its Hegelian and historicist legacy, and thought again in a new context -- that…
The plant and microbial worlds have long been targets for discovery of therapeutic drugs, but insects have been left virtually untouched. . . . Among the substances found in insects…
Nomos, nosos and bios in the body politic In the eighth book of The Republic, the discussion between Socrates and his interlocutors on the ideal political society turns to the…
In the mid-1970s, Michel Foucault outlined a program of seminars to be delivered over the following five years at the Collège de France. These seminars were all intended to address…
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-4009-2. The Future of Seduction Stephen Dougherty Richard Doyle's new book Wetwares involves itself with two nagging and seemingly unanswerable questions: first, what does it mean when we…
London: Verso, ISBN 1-85984-507-X. Theory's Long March: Louis Althusser 1966-7 John Seed There has been something of an Althusser renaissance in the last decade or so. A plethora of mostly…
Exhibited in 'Transfigure' at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne, 8 December 2003 -- 9 May 2004 Freedom from Equipment Patrick Crogan Thus, for contemporary man the representation…
Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-3122-2 Paul North Simon Morgan Wortham's study of the work of American literary critic and theorist Samuel Weber successfully avoids two risks involved in introducing complex critical…
Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262582155. Of Ivory Towers, Looking Glasses and the Cell(f).s of Contemporary Culture Nanette Fornabai N. Katherine Hayles' most recent book, Writing Machines (2002), is a critical introduction…