Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3356-8 Peter Zima In the past reviewers tried to inform readers about the main topics and arguments of a book. This review…
London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 082645934X. 'Most gifts are accompanied by good intentions' Alexander Cooke The debate within literary theory regarding the status and validity of a 'textual approach'…
New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 0415919789 (hbk), 0415919797 (pbk) The politics of the prosthetic Pramod K. Nayar Chris Gray after his sterling work in The Cyborg Handbook and Postmodern War takes on an…
Transitional Notes on Cyber Art Louis Armand In 'Your Place or Mine? Locating Digital Art' (Parallax, 1999), Darren Tofts suggest that the relationship between digital art and the museum is…
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3356-8 The Culture of Technology Pramod K. Nayar Rutsky's High Techne returns us to the primary meanings of the word 'techne' - art, skill…
Henry A. Giroux Five months after the horrific terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, President George Bush announced in his State of the Union Address on…
Benjamin's Challenge 'Mankind['s] ... self alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation…
And on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakeable base of the soundest of Empires. (Sevan in Foucault, 1995: 105) There is a normal type of character,…
After having been discredited by positivism in the earlier part of the last century and the various strands of anti-humanist critique in the later part, ethics has returned recently as…
On Wednesday, April 21, 1999, the ABC Evening News was broadcast live from Littleton Colorado, one day after Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris seized Columbine High School leaving 15 people…