Forum: Edinburgh University Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts 8: Technologies (2009)

Technologies allow us to interrogate what material objects, techniques and systems of knowledge are made and how they are produced.

The 8th issue of Forum engages with a range of questions concerning the definitions, meanings, applications and representations of technologies. The three guest articles by distinguished technology scholars deal with technologies and embodiment in Doctor Who, Marcuse’s aesthetics, and the figure of the independent inventor. The following articles explore the significance of technologies across the fields of literary and film studies, history and art history as well as media studies.

The wide variety of articles from different disciplines highlight the interdisciplinary nature of technologies, and the complexity of the term ‘technology’ itself.

Issue 8, Spring 2009 – Technologies
Editorial board: Ally Crockford, Lena Wanggren, Jack David Burton, Jana Funke, Kim Treharne Richmond, Ana Salzberg.
Publisher: University of Edinburgh, Graduate School of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Aether. The Journal of Media Geography 1-5 (2007-2010)

Aether offers a forum that examines the geography of media, including cinema, television, the Internet, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation. It is our goal to provide a space for contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space & place, cultural landscapes, society, and identity.

Locative Media
Aether 5a, March 2010
Edited by Tristan Thielmann
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The Geography of Journalism
Aether 4, March 2009
Edited by Mike Gasher
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Aether 3, June 2008
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Imagining Geography Through Interactive Visual Media
Aether 2, April 2008
Edited by Leigh Schwartz and Paul C Adams
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Aether 1, Nov 2007
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Editors: James Craine, Jason Dittmer, Chris Lukinbeal, Giorgio Hadi Curti
Publisher: The Center for Geographic Studies, The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, Northridge

Tim Jordan: Activism! Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society (2002)

“Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan’s Activism! refutes this claim. In his powerful polemic, Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape. Because we inhabit such a quickly changing, high-tech and fragmented culture, the single-issue political movements and stable, conservative authorities of the past are continually being questioned. Traditional political battles have been replaced by the popular, collective practices of a new political activism. From Europe to the USA, from Australia to South America, from the Left to the Right, Jordan introduces us to the citizens who make up DIY culture: eco-activists, animal liberators, neo-fascists, ravers, anti-abortionists, squatters, hunt saboteurs and hacktivists. In his view, activism comprises a new ethics of living for the 21st century.”

Publisher Reaktion Books, 2002
Focus on Contemporary Issues series
ISBN 1861891229, 9781861891228
164 pages

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