Contents

 

 

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Introductions

 

New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader

Introduction to Version 1.0

Gary Hall and Clare Birchall

 

New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Some Comments, Clarifications, Explanations, Observations, Recommendations, Remarks, Statements and Suggestions)

Gary Hall and Clare Birchall

 

Liquid Theory TV: Video Introduction

Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Pete Woodbridge, Paul Allender

 

 

 

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Part 1    New Adventures in Theory

 

Deconstruction

Deconstruction and the 'Eccentric Circle'

Jacques Derrida

 

Ethics

Totality and Infinity

Emmanuel Levinas

 

German Media Theory

Introduction, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

Friedrich Kittler [More]

 

Italian Political Theory

From Capital Labour to Capital Life

Maurizio Lazzarato [More]

 

Actor Network Theory

Actor Network Theory

Martin Ryder

 

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Part 2    New Theorists

 

 

Deleuze

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Gilles Deleuze

 

Agamben

The State of Emergency

Giorgio Agamben

 

Nancy

The Experience of Freedom

Jean-Luc Nancy

 

Badiou

Democracy, Politics and Philosophy

Alain Badiou

 

Zizek

With Defenders Like These, Who Needs Attackers?

Slavoj Zizek

 

Sloterdijk

Damned to Expertocracy: The End of Democracy?

Peter Sloterdijk

 

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Part 3    New Transformations

 

Moralism

Excerpt from the Introduction to On the Political

Chantal Mouffe 

 

Anti-Capitalism/The Global Justice Movement

Porto Alegre: Today's Bandung?

Michael Hardt

 

Open Source

Open-Source: A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

Manuel de Landa

 

New Media

Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

N. Katherine Hayles

 

Science

Order Out of Chaos: Man's Dialogue with Nature

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

 

Biopolitics [More]

Biopolitics and Connective Mutation

Bifo

 

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Part 4    New Adventures in Cultural Studies

 

Architecture

Junkspace

Rem Koolhaas [More]

 

Cartographies [More]

Counter-cartographies

Counter-Cartographies Collective  

 

The University [More]

EduFactory

edu-factory collective

 

The Book

The Institute for the Future of the Book

The Institute for the Future of the Book

 

 

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