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<nettime-ann> [pub] Culture Machine series/Virilio new book |
Hi, Just to let you know about the launch of a new book series associated with the Culture Machine journal http://www.culturemachine.net Best, Gary --------------------------------- CULTURE MACHINE BOOK SERIES Series Editor: Gary Hall Commissioning Editors: Dave Boothroyd, Chris Hables Gray, Simon Morgan Wortham, Joanna Zylinska International Consultant Editors: Simon Critchley, Lawrence Grossberg, Donna Haraway, Peggy Kamuf, Brian Massumi, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Paul Rabinow, Kevin Robins, Avital Ronell The position of cultural theory has radically shifted. What was once the engine of change across the Humanities and Social Sciences is now faced with a new 'post-theoretical' mood, a return to empiricism and to a more transparent politics. So what is the future for cultural theory? Addressing this question through the presentation of innovative, provocative, cutting-edge work, the Culture Machine series both repositions cultural theory and reaffirms its continuing intellectual and political importance. ------------------------- The first publication in the CULTURE MACHINE SERIES is: CITY OF PANIC Paul Virilio Translated by Julie Rose August 2005 / 160pp / HB: £16.99 / ISBN:1 84520 224 4 City of Panic takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. For Virilio, whose sense of cities was formed by earlier wars, Paris is both the City of Light and the City of Panic. Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th Century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatisation of what was public...Now every metropolis is a war zone and every metropolis is the same. In this globalised and militarised everywhere, all citizens are becoming one citizen - saturated, standardised and synchronised - ever more reliant on a media fabricating a world of fear. For the panic of the 21st century is simply the final phase of the pincer movement. Place-less, media-fed, panic-struck - welcome to the desert of the real. Paul Virilio is one of our foremost cultural critics. Architect and urban planner and former director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, he has written widely on film, architecture, war and technology. Julie Rose is a freelance translator and winner of the PEN Medallion for Translation. CONTENTS Foreword 1. Tabula Rasa 2. Democracy of Emotion 3. Kriegstrasse 4. An Accident in Time 5. Panicsville 6. The Twilight of Places Index -------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming books in the CULTURE MACHINE SERIES include Art, Time & Technology by Charlie Gere Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Celebrity Gossip by Clare Birchall Anti-Capitalism: Cultural Theory and Popular Politics by Jeremy Gilbert -- Dr Gary Hall Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University http://www.mdx.ac.uk/subjects/mcc/mcs/index.htm Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net My website http://www.garyhall.info _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann