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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)
