Theory, Culture & Society 30 (6), Special Issue: Cultural Techniques (2013)

“This special issue is dedicated to Kulturtechniken (‘cultural techniques’), one of the most interesting and fertile concepts to have emerged in German cultural theory over the last decades. Our goal was to compile a collection that can serve as both archive and toolbox. For readers with a more historically-oriented interest in the multilayered past of the concept, we included important earlier proposals to define Kulturtechniken as well as more recent attempts to (re)write the history of the concept in light of current theory debates. For those more concerned with possible applications and implications, we encouraged contributors to apply their particular understanding of Kulturtechniken to new, sometimes unexpected, domains – from servants and swarms all the way to the basic reconfiguration of our understanding of time and machinic temporality. We are, in short, interested in unfolding the concept and probing its use value. Our two guiding questions are: What are cultural techniques? And what can be done with the concept?” (from the introduction)

Edited by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Ilinca Iurascu and Jussi Parikka
Publisher Sage, November 2013
ISSN 0263-2764
172 pages

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Journal of Sonic Studies, Vol. 5 (2013)

This issue of the JSS presents two items – a report of an expert meeting on auditory culture in Leiden (the Netherlands) and a handful of mini-essays inspired by a sound art exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe, both taking place in December 2012. The first features efforts to transgress scientific and academic barriers in and through sound studies, the second presents a new way to write around sound art.

Issue Editors: Marcel Cobussen, Jan Nieuwenhuis, Sharon Stewart, Vincent Meelberg
Publisher Leiden University Press, September 2013

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continent. journal, Special Issue (3.2): Drift (2013)

continent. maps a topology of unstable confluences and ranges across new thinking, traversing interstices and alternate directions in culture, theory, biopolitics and art.

Contributors to this issue: Berit Soli-Holt, April Vannini, Jeremy Fernando, R H Jackson, Gina Rae Foster, Bronwyn Lay, Patricia Reed, David Prater, Laura Dean, Jesse McClelland, Amara Hark Weber, Isaac Linder, Ashley D. Hairston, and Sean Smith.

Edited by Berit Soli-Holt
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
ISSN 2159-9920

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