Culture Machine, 1-11 (1999-2010)
Filed under journal | Tags: · biopolitics, community, cultural studies, cultural theory, piracy, theory
Culture Machine is an international open-access journal of culture and theory, founded in 1999. Its aim is to be to cultural studies and cultural theory what ‘fundamental research’ is to the natural sciences: open-ended, non-goal orientated, exploratory and experimental. All contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed.
Vol 11 (2010): Creative Media
Vol 10 (2009): Pirate Philosophy
Vol 9 (2007): Recordings
Vol 8 (2006): Community
Vol 7 (2005): Biopolitics
Vol 6 (2004): Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies
Vol 5 (2003): The E-Issue
Vol 4 (2002): The Ethico-Political Issue
Vol 3 (2001): Virologies: Culture and Contamination
Vol 2 (2000): The University Culture Machine
Vol 1 (1999): Taking Risks With The Future
Editors: Dave Boothroyd, Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska
Publisher Open Humanities Press
Open Access
ISSN 1465-4121
PDFs (updated on 2019-11-20)
Comment (0)Henry A. Giroux: Impure Acts. The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical pedagogy, cultural politics, cultural studies, democracy, education, ideology, multiculturalism
This book begins with the premise that the culture of politics–culture’s capacity to create those discursive resources and material relations of power that shape democratic public life–appears to be in crisis, subject to derision by a wide range of ideological perspectives. In opposition to such attacks, this book argues that struggles over culture are not a weak substitute for “real” politics, but are central to any struggle willing to forge relations of power, theory, and practice, as well as pedagogy and social change. Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.Impure Actspoints to a new kind of cultural politics and a new kind of political culture that put knowledge and practice in the service of a more realized democracy.
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415926564, 9780415926560
Length 166 pages
David Bell: Science, Technology and Culture (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · cultural studies, everyday, postmodernism, science, technology, technoscience, ufology
This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave ovens.
Series Issues in cultural and media studies
Publisher McGraw-Hill International, 2006
ISBN 033521326X, 9780335213269
Length 159 pages