A political figure, religious believer, educator and founder of three universities, Ma Xiangbo left a profound legacy in all of these areas of life and thought. This study of his life includes three lengthy essays as well as translations of nine important articles by Ma Xiangbo himself...
The essays in this collection suggest that the commercialisation of the production of national culture, in various ways and to varying degrees, constitutes an important shift in the configuration of the relations between state and economic power and, therefore, is one of the key influences on the pr..
Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptuali..
This book is a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace. It will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future...
This collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future...
This collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future...
Is it possible to map the human subject? This book explores the places of the subject in contemporary culture from a variety of directions and in the process, maps new territory for that subject, seeking new spaces, politics and possibilities...
From its beginnings in Puritan sermonising to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction, this book traces the use of terror in the American popular imagination. Entering American culture partly by way of religious sanction, it remains an important heart and mind shaping tool...
These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses Marxism as a cultural-political problematic. Conte..