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Cultural Studies 11.3
This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.
Residual Media
In a society that awaits 'the new' in every medium, what happens to last year's new? From player pianos to vinyl records, and from the typewriter to the telephone, 'Residual Media' is an innovative approach to the aging of culture and reveals that, ultimately, new cultural phenomena rely on encounters with the old.
Finding Solutions for a Post-Crisis Society
Since 2007 and the economic meltdown caused by the financial crisis, our societies have been evolving in different ways. New political movements have emerged in Southern Europe and new social movements in pursuit of common concerns are playing a more active role in our daily lives. In a parallel way, after the failure to predict the financial crisis, economist and social science researchers seek fresh thinking and new models that can better explain this new reality. Regulations are of critical importance in shaping the welfare of economies and society. Thus, core legal disciplines are exploring the effects of the financial crisis on social rights, labour market regulations, and civil, common...
The Wireless Spectrum
As evidenced by the clientele in any urban coffee shop, devices such as cell phones, BlackBerries, and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops have proliferated, particularly during the past ten years. The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming our experiences of space, time, and place, while reshaping our day-to-day interactions. Bringing together visual artists, designers, activists, and communication and humanities scholars to reflect on mobile media, this collection engages a new terrain of interdisciplinary research. Interrogating these new forms of community and communication practices as they are emerging in Canada and around the world, the essays in The Wireless Spectrum ask how these new technologies transfigure subjectivities, creating new forms of social behaviour and provocative aesthetic practices.
Contracting Out Hollywood
In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.
Pedagogies of Difference
Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, representations, and uses of difference in educational contexts. These essays strive to bridge competing discourses of difference--for instance, feminist or anti-racist pedagogical models--to create a more inclusive education that adheres to principles of equity and social justice.
'Strandentwining Cable'
Scarlett Baron explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941). She uncovers the lifelong fascination that Joyce harboured for Flaubert and investigates how this heightened interest inflected his own creative practice.
En busca de eros
La autora sostiene que "situar el problema de la constitución de la unidad psicosomática a partir del modelo freudiano de la pulsión, 'concepto límite entre lo psíquico y lo somático', se me impuso como evidencia. La concepción de energía a adoptar se volcó decididamente en la de energía pulsional. La organización-desorganización psicosomática dependería entonces del proceso de transformación de la excitación de origen somático en una energía psíquica pulsional, con sus continuidades y sus fallos. Los traumatismos, que, en cualquier momento de la vida, intervienen en ese proceso de 'pulsionante de la excitación somática' abriendo 'brechas' en el tejido psíquico, dieron ...
Planeta Cyborg
Este libro plantea cómo las condiciones de mutación de los humanos, a partir de la incorporación a su cuerpo de las máquinas de comunicar, avanzan sin cesar y que las mismas nos traen preguntas a cada paso. Intenta demostrar en cada capítulo que esta mutación, esta hibridación de máquinas de comunicar y la placenta mediática conducen al desvalimiento dado que la misma aceleración con que se produce la mutación lleva a que el usuario sea más cyborg a cada paso. El progreso tecnológico puede desconcertarnos y llevarnos a la fascinación constante, lo que suele impedir salir del entusiasmo tecnofílico. El texto está organizado en cuatro partes. En la primera parte, se sostiene qu...
