[ecrea] New Reviews on Culture Machine

>CULTURE MACHINE <http://www.culturemachine.net> is pleased to 
>announce the publication of the following new book reviews:
>
>KEVIN FLOYD (2009). THE REIFICATION OF DESIRE: TOWARD A QUEER 
>MARXISM. MINNEAPOLIS AND LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS.
>
>Reviewed by Richard Hornsey
>
>During the last decade, queer studies has become increasingly 
>engaged with the critical analysis of class and capital. As gay men 
>and lesbians have achieved new levels of media visibility and 
>legislative equality in the West, scholars and activists have traced 
>the emergence of a new homonormativity, a rerouting of the queer 
>agenda into a politics based on consumption and privatised rights 
>that willingly colludes with the wider dynamics of contemporary 
>neoliberalism...
>
>NICOLA MASCIANDARO (ED.) (2010) HIDEOUS GNOSIS. BLACK METAL THEORY 
>SYMPOSIUM 1, CHARLESTON: CREATESPACE.
>
>Reviewed by Tammy L. Castelein & Bram Ieven
>
>Heavy metal appears to have enjoyed its high days in the nineties. 
>Whereas the long haired black dress code was once quasi ubiquitous 
>it has by now become something of a curiosity on the high streets. 
>Nevertheless, metal and its various subgenres such as black, speed, 
>doom, death or thrash metal have managed to retain a score of 
>adherents. Hideous Gnosis is the theoretical proof of this continued 
>fascination with a music genre that for many also represents a way 
>of life and thought...
>
>DAVIDE PANAGIA (2009) THE POLITICAL LIFE OF SENSATION. DURHAM & 
>LONDON: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
>
>Reviewed by Teresa Mayne
>
>Davide Panagia's The Political Life of Sensation transforms the 
>unrepresentability of sensation into a political encounter.  For 
>Panagia, sensation is a radical mode of expression which resists the 
>classified domain of politics. It is also an effect of the aesthetic 
>experience that defies the domain of merely the visual, including 
>the total bodily encounter of auditory and appetitive 
>responses.  Each marks an aesthetic encounter which poses a 
>challenge to democratic society. It is through this challenge that 
>the broad range of Panagia's project takes shape...
>
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>CULTURE MACHINE http://www.culturemachine.net is an open-access 
>peer-reviewed journal of cultural studies and cultural theory which 
>publishes new work from both established figures and up-and-coming 
>writers. It is fully refereed and has an International Editorial 
>Advisory Board which includes Geoffrey Bennington, Robert 
>Bernasconi, Sue Golding, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso 
>Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Mark Poster, Avital Ronell, 
>Nicholas Royle, Tadeusz Slawek and Kenneth Surin.
>
>Dr Clare Birchall
>Lecturer in Cultural Studies
>University of Kent.
>
>Reviews Editor Culture Machine: http://www.culturemachine.net/
>Author of Knowledge Goes Pop (Berg) http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=761
>Co-editor of New Cultural Studies (EUP) 
>http://www.amazon.com/New-Cultural-Studies-Adventures-Theory/dp/0820329606
>
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