…ment: Journal for Contemporary Culture, Art and Politics, 2: Dénouement (2011)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · art, capitalism, catastrophe, labour, politics
“From the financial crisis to natural and man-made disasters via the wave of political extremisms, our times are patterned with catastrophes of all kinds. While the contemporary meaning of catastrophe is commonly associated to the idea of disaster and collective trauma its origin mostly refers to a sudden turn, or a reversal of what is expected. Catastrophe would therefore be this shift that allows us to explore spaces that could not be accessed, whilst breaking with the existing or the normative. Issue 2 of …ment explores the dis-ordering nature of catastrophe whilst celebrating the potential of its narratives and imageries.
…ment is a journal for contemporary culture, art and politics published in irregular intervals. Through a multi-disciplinary set of editorial forms, the journal aims to reflect on current societal issues and debates.”
With contributions by Tobias Scholz, Jean-Charles Massera, David Riff, Daniel Bürkner, Jens Meinrenken, Walter Benjamin, Bo Christian Larsson, Heather & Ivan Morison, Gustav Metzger, DOXA. Also included in the journal is an excerpt Walter Benjamin’s Theses on Philosophy of History. The printed journal includes a special edition by Bo Christian Larsson.
Editor-in-chief: Federica Bueti
Associate editors: Benoit Loiseau, Clara Meister
98 pages
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Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta (eds.): The Anthropology of the State: A Reader (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, bureaucracy, democracy, economy, feminism, governmentality, ideology, immigration, labour, neoliberalism, politics, power, production, society, state
This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of “the state”.
– Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the “state”.
– Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.
– Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.
Publisher Blackwell Publishing, 2006
ISBN 1405114681, 9781405114684
424 pages
International Journal of Communication, Vol. 5 (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · arab spring, internet, labour, network society, networks, new media, protest, technology, theory, web 2.0
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
Special sections: Network Theory, New Media in International Contexts.
Features: Academic Labor, The Arab Spring.
Editors: Manuel Castells, Larry Gross
Published by University of Southern California, Annenberg Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
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