Editor: Scott McCracken
This
issue invites ten cultural critics to explore how they might remember
the 1990's. Is it possible to historicize the immediate past? Can we yet
pick through the density of informational overload and discern larger
patterns of significance? Is this the role of cultural criticism in addressing
the contemporary? Implicit in these questions is the sense that the 1990's
were partly about the changing significance not only of the category of
culture, but also of memory itself. How to remember an era marked by an
obsession with amnesia, attention deficit, lost and recovered memory?
Essays include work on art history, avant-garde poetry, marginal sciences, the computer's transformation of intimacy and reading, the melancholia of critical theory, the fate of feminism, the rise of traumaculture, the fortunes of independant music, and the sociology of globalisation. What emerges is a complex weave of arguments and ideas that make a start at writing a cultural history of the 1990's.
Contents and Contributors
Introduction by Joe Brooker and Roger Luckhurst
John Tomlinson: The Agenda of Globalization
Michael Bracewell: New Image Glasgow to Young British Art
Roger Luckhurst: Traumaculture
Robert Hampson: Memory False Memory
Peter Middleton: The New Memoryism: How Computers Changed The Way
We Read
Wendy Wheeler: A
Long and Complex Revolution: The Theo-Ontological Expansion of Science
Steven Connor: Weird Science
Joe Brooker: Commercial Alternative
Andrew Gibson: Oublier Baudrillard: Melancholy of the Year 2000
Lynne Segal: Theoretical Afflictions: Poor Rich White Folks Play
The Blues
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