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…
Faculty of Art & Design: Monash University. ISBN: 0-7326-2154-2. After obsolescence, what comes next? Adrian Mackenzie Much recent work on the Australian artist Stelarc expounds the idea that through technology…
Trans. J. Rose. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-6080-1 Icons of the Human Robert S. Oventile Barely a week into 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', American pundits began to worry that…
New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50484-2. Rewriting the Disaster Robert Leventhal The disaster is not somber, it would liberate us from everything if it could just have a relation with…