Flusser Studies: Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media Theory (2005-)

Flusser Studies is an international e-journal for academic research dedicated to the thought of Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). In addition to publishing articles about Flusser’s work, the journal seeks to promote scholarship on different aspects of specifically interdisciplinary and multilingual approaches Flusser himself developed in the course of his career as a writer and philosopher. These approaches range from Communication Theory to Translation Studies, Cultural Anthropology to the New Media.

Flusser Studies is published twice a year. Publication languages include English, German, French, Portuguese and Czech. Some issues will be dedicated to a specific area of research.

Editorial board: Rainer Guldin, Anke Finger, Gustavo Bernardo Krause
ISSN 1661-5719
Peer-reviewed open access journal.

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Culture Machine, 1-11 (1999-2010)

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

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John Tomlinson: The Culture of Speed. The Coming of Immediacy (2007)

Is the pace of life accelerating? If so, what are the cultural, social, personal and economic consequences?

This stimulating and accessible book examines how speed emerged as a cultural issue during industrial modernity. The rise of capitalist society and the shift to urban settings was rapid and tumultuous and was defined by the belief in ‘progress’. The first obstacle faced by societies that were starting to ‘speed up’ was how to regulate and control the process. The attempt to regulate the acceleration of life created a new set of problems, namely the way in which speed escapes regulation and rebels against controls. This pattern of acceleration and control subsequently defined debates about the cultural effects of acceleration. However, in the 21st century ‘immediacy’, the combination of fast capitalism and the saturation of the everyday by media technologies, has emerged as the core feature of control. This coming of immediacy will inexorably change how we think about and experience media culture, consumption practices, and the core of our cultural and moral values.

Incisive and richly illustrated, this eye-opening account of speed and culture provides an original, essential guide to one of the central features of contemporary culture and personal life.

Publisher SAGE, 2007
ISBN 1412912024, 9781412912020
Length 180 pages

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