[ecrea] NEW ISSUE: CULTURAL POLITICS VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2010

> Dear friends and colleagues
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> I am pleased to announce the publication of CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 5,
> Issue 3, November 2009, which is a General Issue.
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> Cultural Politics
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> Volume 6, Issue 1
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> March 2010
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> Articles
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> The Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun
> André Gorz on the implications of the new capitalism’s
> reliance on immaterial contents for increasingly problematical
> reproduction and with the emancipatory potential inherent in this
> situation. 
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> Towers that Flower
> Artist and poet Alec Finlay and photographer Alexander Maris
> explore the windmill turbine, the only monumental sculpture suited to
> symbolize the era of climate change. 
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> An Extreme Case of Social Life: Inmate Society in National Socialist
> Concentration Camps
> Maya Suderland critically reflects on the widely held view
> that, because the concentration camp represents an extreme case of a
> relationship of subordination, it cannot be examined from a social point
> of view.
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> Special Section on the Cultural Politics of Celebrity
> The Cultural Politics of Celebrity
> Philip Drake and Andy Miah consider celebrity as a ubiquitous
> aspect of contemporary culture, mass media, and the Internet that is
> inextricably linked to developments in media systems that operate within
> capitalist systems of commodity exchange.
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> News, Celebrity and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of
> the Michael Jackson Verdict
> Gary Whannel examines the transformation of news as a cultural
> commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and
> circulation speed of media production or what Whannel conceptualizes as
> ‘Vortextuality’ with reference to the coverage of the verdict
> announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson.
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> Unsolicited Submission 
> American artist David Levine’s project about unsolicited wannabe
> celebrity submissions to talent and other cultural agencies is a
> multidisciplinary and multiyear project of gathering, analysing, and
> archiving such unsolicited submissions in every field of cultural
> endeavour. 
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> The ‘Public Inquisitor’ as Media Celebrity
> Michael Higgins looks at the development and utility of
> celebrity among high-profile political interviewers, offering the revised
> description of ‘public inquisitor’ to describe the rise of the political
> interviewer as a celebrity form.
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> ‘As Seen on TV’: The Celebrity Expert: How Taste is shaped by
> Lifestyle Media
> Helen Powell and Sylvie Prasad examine how television, print,
> and advertising contribute to the construction of media stars such as
> Jamie Oliver whose function is to transfer knowledge of particular
> lifestyles to the lived experience of ordinary people. 
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> About Cultural Politics
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> “Cultural Politics is a welcome and innovative addition.  In an
> academic universe already well populated with journals, it is carving out
> its own unique place­broad and a bit quirky.  It likes to leap
> between the theoretical and the concrete, so that it is never boring and
> often filled with illuminating glimpses into the intellectual and
> cultural worlds.” Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina,
> USA.
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> Edited by
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> John Armitage, Northumbria University, UK  
> Ryan Bishop, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
> Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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> Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that
> explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and
> politics. It analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors,
> political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked,
> characterized, examined and resolved. In doing so, the journal explores
> precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about
> culture. It investigates the marginalized and outer regions of this
> complex and interdisciplinary subject area.
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> Each issue publishes artwork by selected artists reflecting contemporary
> cultural and political issues.
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> 1)   Manuscript Submissions
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> Should you have an article you would like to submit, please write to
> the editors:
> Dr John Armitage
> Head of Department of Media
> Co-editor, Cultural Politics
> School of Arts & Social Sciences
> Room SQ318d, Squires Building
> Northumbria University
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> Dr Ryan Bishop
> Co-Editor, Cultural Politics
> Associate Professor of English
> The National University of Singapore
> Department of English
> AS5, Arts Link
> Singapore 117570
> Tel. + 65-6874 6633
> Fax: + 65-6773 2981
> Email: (ellrb /at/ nus.edu.sg)
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> 2) Book Reviews
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> Please contact Mark Featherstone for consideration for review in
> Cultural Politics.
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> Dr Mark Featherstone
> Book Reviews Editor
> Cultural Politics
> Sociology
> CESSW, Keele University
> Keele ST5 5BG
> Staffordshire
> UK
> Email: (spa.37 /at/ keele.ac.uk)
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