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[ecrea] New thematic section from Culture Unbound: ?City of Signs/Signs of the City?

Tue Dec 22 13:24:54 GMT 2009



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New thematic section from Culture Unbound: ?City of Signs/Signs of the City?
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural research is a new open access e-journal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary, cutting edge cultural research from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. Culture Unbound has just published its second thematic section ­ a collection of essays dedicated to the theme ?Signs in the city/city of signs? The thematic section is edited by Geoff Stahl and it represents a cross-section of the research that is currently being done around urban sign systems in a number of cities around the globe. The authors have presented articles that, directly and indirectly, grapple with the social, ideological and aesthetic production and conception of the city. From historical monuments to mobile technologies, from literary to filmic representations, from intimate reflections to theoretical engagements, and from immense outdoor screens to the ground beneath our pedestrian feet, these articles constitute a broad range of possibility with regard to reading the city of signs and signs of the city. Featured articles are:
Geoff Stahl, ?Urban Signs/Signs of the Urban: Of Scenes and Streetscapes?
Luc Pauwels, ?Street Discourse: A Visual Essay on Urban Signification?
Christopher Kelen, ?Going Begging: Casino Culture and Its Contrasts as Revealed in the New Macao Poetry? Sophie Esmann Andersen and Anne Ellerup Nielsen, ?The City at Stake: ?Stakeholder Mapping? the City? Christoph Jacke, ?Locating Intermediality: Socialization by Communication and Consumption in the Popular-Cultural Third Places of the Music Club and Football Stadium? Jason Wasiak, ?Being-in-the-City: A Phenomenological Approach to Technological Experience? Martin Zeilinger, ??Quit Stalling?!?: Destiny and Destination on L.A.?s Inner City Roads?
Yasmin Ibrahim, ?City Under Siege: Narrating Mumbai Through Non-Stop Capture?
Zlatan Krajina, ?Exploring Urban Screens?
Agata Lisiak, ?Disposable and Usable Pasts in Central European Cities?
Megan Hicks, ?City of Epitaphs?

Alongside the thematic sections, Culture Unbound continuously publishes individual articles on various topics. Right now we are happy to present two new articles about the celebration of Bloomsday and the works of Susan Sontag and Jean Luc Goddard: Willmar Sauter, ?Bloomsday: James Jouce?s Ulysses celebrated as Theatrical Event? Idit Alphandary, ?Radical Hope or the Moral Imperative of Images in the Works of Susan Sontag and Jean Luc Godard?

You can access all articles for free at:
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html

We also welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.

Martin Fredriksson
Executive Editor
Culture Unbound
(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)


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