Cultural Politics: Volume 1 Issue 1

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Edited by John Armitage, Douglas Kellner and Ryan Bishop

Berg Publishers

Due/Published March 2005, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 1845202104

"Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. Topics will include: representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; patriarchy, feminism and gender studies; postcolonialism; political activism, and much more.

Contents

Introducing Cultural Politics -- John Armitage, Ryan Bishop and Douglas Kellner

Mao Zedong's Impact on Cultural Politics in the West -- Andrew Ross

Pornography of War -- Jean Baudrillard

Cold Panic -- Paul Virilio

The Anthropologist as Witness in Contemporary Regimes of Intervention -- George E. Marcus

 Special Section on the Cultural Politics of Information and Communications Technologies

Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics -- Jodi Dean

Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach -- Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner

Hardt and Negri's Information Empire: A Critical Response -- Mark Poster

 Field Report

Follow the Image -- Joy Garnett

 Book Review

The (Not so) Disparate Voices of E-Democracy -- Joss Hands