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| News The latest issue of Cultural Politics, Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2008, is now available. Content can be accessed electronically through Ingenta. CULTURAL POLITICS 4:2 Volume 4, Number 2, July, 2008 ARTICLES Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics Sean Cubitt on technology, social knowledge, dialectics, virtuality, and the futural politics and aesthetics of media and communications technologies The War Office: Everyday Environments and War Logistics Gair Dunlop writes on war and logistics whilst photographing the abandoned office spaces on disbanded squadron facilities at RAF Coltishall The Intellectual Genealogies and Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony Bennett Huimin Jin questions contemporary cultural studies by way of this interview with one of its leading figures, who discusses everything from the concept of governmentality to Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault (The War on) Terrorism: Destruction, Collapse, Mixture, Re-enforcement, Construction Leonie Ansems de Vries rethinks who committed suicide and what actually collapsed on September 11, 2001 in the light of contemporary urban despair and Jean Baudrillard's contentions concerning the dominant Western order Pursuit in Paris John Armitage visits the grave of Jean Baudrillard, takes a few photographs, and wonders what he is doing there FIELD REPORT Famous for 15 Seconds Kathe Burkhart exhibits her Liz Taylor series of paintings and discusses celebrity culture in relation to her own artistic practice [see images, artist info] BOOK REVIEW ESSAY What is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson Stefan Skrimshire on the revival of interest in utopian politics, John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Russell Jacoby, and Fredric Jameson BOOK REVIEWS An Analyst's Couch for Architects Li Shiqiao considers Neil Leach's Camouflage, architectural theory, and post-phenomenological frameworks of ontological thinking, mimesis, and architecture Desiring a Coherent China Emily Chua discusses Lisa Rofel's Desiring China, anthropology, and China's search for a post-Maoist narrative of national coherence |
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