Contents

 

 

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Introductions

 

1 New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader

Introduction to Version 1.0

Gary Hall and Clare Birchall

 

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

Gary Hall and Clare Birchall

 

3 Liquid Theory TV: Video Introduction

Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Pete Woodbridge, Paul Allender

 

 

 

 

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Part I    New Adventures in Theory

 

3 Deconstruction

Deconstruction and the 'Eccentric Circle'

Jacques Derrida

 

4 Ethics

Totality and Infinity

Emmanuel Levinas

 

5 German Media Theory

Introduction to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

Friedrich Kittler

 

6 Italian Political Theory

From Capital Labour to Capital Life

Maurizio Lazzarato [More]

 

7 Actor Network Theory

Actor Network Theory

Martin Ryder

 

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Part II    New Theorists

 

 

8 Deleuze

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Gilles Deleuze [More]

 

9 Agamben

The State of Emergency

Giorgio Agamben

 

10 Nancy

The Experience of Freedom

Jean-Luc Nancy

 

11Badiou

Democracy, Politics and Philosophy

Alain Badiou

 

12 Zizek

With Defenders Like These, Who Needs Attackers?

Slavoj Zizek

 

13 Sloterdijk

Damned to Expertocracy: The End of Democracy?

Peter Sloterdijk

 

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Part III    New Transformations

 

14 Moralism

Excerpt from the Introduction to On the Political

Chantal Mouffe

 

15 Anti-Capitalism/The Global Justice Movement

Porto Alegre: Today's Bandung?

Michael Hardt

 

16 Open Source

Open-Source: A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

Manuel de Landa

 

17 New Media

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

N. Katherine Hayles

 

18 Science

Order Out of Chaos: Man's Dialogue with Nature

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

 

19 Biopolitics [More]

Biopolitics and Connective Mutation

Bifo

 

 

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Part IV    New Adventures in Cultural Studies

 

20 Architecture 

Junkspace

Rem Koolhaas [More]

 

21 Cartographies [More]

Counter-cartographies

3Cs Counter-Cartographies Collective

 

22 The University

Edu-factory

edu-factory collective

 

23 The Book [More]

The Institute for the Future of the Book

The Institute for the Future of the Book

 

24 The Secret [More]

Literature in Secret

Jacques Derrida

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Bibliographic details

 

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