new formations no 39
COOL MOVES
Editor: David Glover
This issue of new formations leads with an examination of the brittle cultural logic of 'cool', tracing its move from being a performative style of hedonistic disaffliation to one of the most important orientations to consumerism and marketing, the epitome of style. Briefly hijacked by new Labour, 'cool' sits uncomfortably with the party's moralising civic rhetoric and may yet prove to be the principal grave-digger of Tony Blair's punitive democracy.
Questions of style and consumption, politics and ethics are at the centre of this collection. The topics addressed include the invention of everyday life, the cultural phenomenology of skin, affect and the impaired body, the art of smoking, 'black' music and multiracial audiences, and nomadic ethics for minoritarian communities. We are also publishing a new transation of Guy Hocquenghem's classic essay on gay politics: 'On Homo-sex, or Is Homosexuality A Curable Vice?'
Contents and Contributors:
David Glover Editorial
Dick Pountain and David Robins Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude
Rita Felski The Invention of Everyday Life
Steven Connor The Integuments: The Scar, the Sheen, the Screen
Mariam Fraser Creative Affects
Guy Hocquenghem On Homo-Sex; or, Is Homosexuality a Curable Vice?
Bill Marshall Commentary: 'On Homo-Sex'
Fred Botting The Art of Smoking in an Age of Techno-Moral Consumption
Anny Brooksbank Jones Avon's Calling: Global Consumption and Microcultural
Practice in a Latin American Frame
Gregory Stephens 'You Can Sample Anything': Zebrahead, 'Black' Music,
and Multiracial Audiences
Syed Manzurul Islam Forming Minoritarian Communities: Nomadic Ethics
for the Postcolonial World
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