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The Hallucinatory Life of Tape – Paul Hegarty

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings The Hallucinatory Life of Tape Paul Hegarty I It would be easy to see tape as part of a sequence in the development of increasingly perfect…

Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction – Greg Hainge

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction Greg Hainge If, as appears to be the…

Pulse Demons – Eugene Thacker

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Pulse Demons Eugene Thacker Contemporary popular culture often privileges the visual representations of swarms. In film, the development of complex algorithms for simulating group…

Recordings

Vol 9 (2007) Recordings Recordings Paul Hegarty & Gary Genosko The contributions to this special issue of Culture Machine, gathered under the thematic 'Recordings', perform a series of displacements toward…

Lawrence Grossberg (2005) Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future.

Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 1-59451-113-6. Matt Hills In a sense, I'm probably one of Lawrence Grossberg's intended readers for this volume -- somebody who is generally sympathetic to…

Marquard Smith (ed.) (2005) Stelarc: The Monograph.

Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19518-6. Does Stelarc's Prosthetic Head Dream of Electric Sheep? Edward Scheer As I read this collection of essays and interviews I was…

Clare Birchall (2006) Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip.

London and New York: Berg. ISBN: 184520143-4. Spied On, Sexed Up and Talked About Gary Walton This study is a cogent and welcome examination of what Clare Birchall calls 'popular…

Timothy Clark (2005) The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1929-1. Robert Eaglestone Timothy Clark is one of the best-kept secrets of British intellectual and literary-theoretical life. Quietly working away, specialising in the fertile ground…

Slavoj Žižek (2005) Interrogating the Real. Edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens

London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-7110-2 Paul Bowman Žižek is intellectually orgiastic. He jumps from one paradigm to another: from Lacanian psychoanalysis to base-superstructure Marxism; from Heidegger to Hegel…

Tom Cohen (2005) Hitchcock’s Cryptonomies. Volume 1: Secret Agents; Volume II: War Machines.

Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-4206-0 and 0-8166-4170-6. Hitchcock's 'Material Whirl' Karyn Ball 'Pardon me while my brain reels,' intones the enemy spy, 'Marvin,' with mock melodrama…