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Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror”

Enrica Picarelli — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:44:34 +0000

At the heart of Reframing 9/11 is an investigation of the processes of cultural formation unfolding within a system of power which takes as its object the coming into being of the subject, that is, the whole of the processes by which we develop an understanding of ourselves and represent it to the world through semiotic means. This is the regime of biopolitical sovereignty that informs...

Transgressing Virtual Geographies

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:08:44 +0000

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi interviews Ricardo Dominguez

As co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater, Ricardo Dominguez’ name has long been legendary among hackers, proto-internet enthusiasts, and performance artists. For more than 20 years Dominguez has pretzeled a non-traditional professional trajectory…

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Ben Pitcher — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:59:57 +0000

At the heart of the problem of race is the trick of substantiation: the art of teasing something out of nothing, of giving meaning to meaninglessness and getting it to stick. Once conjured into existence, fact accretes around an empty nucleus. Objective powers grow from the groundless fantasies of blood or soil, thickening a carapace so vast and complex that it structures the whole architecture of the social.

Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back [audio]

Les Back — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:58:17 +0000

The conversation was published in 2009 in a special edition of Cultural Studies dedicated to Stuart’s life and work. The advantage of the recording available here for the first time is that the listener can access aspects of Stuart’s style of intellectual dialogue that cannot be transposed to the page.