Guest Editor: David Glover
From Marx and Freud to Benjamin and beyond, the interrogation of dreams has often provided the impetus for new departures in cultural theory, utopian and anti-utopian alike, looking at areas from the psychoanalytical theory of daydreams to the dreams of empire that have energised the modern world-system. This issue of new formations examines some of the problems in contemporary theory, and the dilemmas inherent in attempting to arrive at new positions.
Contents and Contributors:
Rachel Bowlby The Other Day: The Interpretation
of Daydreams
Sara Ahmed Tanning the Body: Skin, Colour and Gender
Nicholas Daly The Ferris Wheel of Identity: Gender, Race and Nation
in the Films of Neil Jordan
Laura Chrisman Imperial Space, Imperial Place: Theories of Empire
and Culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak
Maureen Moynagh Cunard's Political Lines: Political Tourism and
its Texts
Benita Parry Tono-Bungay: Modernisation, Modernity and Imperialism,
or The Failed Electrification of Empire
Michael Pickering and Keith Negus The Value of Value: Simon Frith
and the Aesthetics of the Popular
Simon Frith A Note on 'The Value of Value'
Wendy Wheeler In the Middle of Ordinary Things: Rites, Procedures
and (Last) Orders
Simon Wortham Surviving Theory, 'As If I(t) Were Dead': Derrida
and Interdisciplinarity