David Glover and Scott McCracken (editors)
new
formations 58 is devoted to two major, but very different
interventions into the politics of culture. The first focuses on current
work by the philosopher Étienne Balibar on the role of borders and frontiers
in enforcing conceptual as well as physical limits upon political democracy.
It includes a wide-ranging conversation between Balibar and political theorist
Sandro Mezzadra, together with a series of responses to this interview that
take up the topics of Europe, citizenship and civility. The second section
addresses the continuing importance of Richard Dyer’s 1979 gay left article ‘In Defense of Disco’, reprinting the original essay
and looking at its implications for contemporary cultural history and cultural
theory. Other essays examine Slavoj Zizek’s brand of ideology critique;
history, fiction and postmodern theory; and the representation of the everyday
in British Asian cinema.
Contributors: Claudia Aradau, Étienne Balibar, Timothy Bewes,
Manuela Bojadžijev, Iain Chambers, Richard Dyer, Heiko Feldner, Jeremy Gilbert,
Tim Lawrence, Sandro Mezzadra, James Procter, Isabelle Saint-Saëns, William
Outhwaite, Fabio Vighi.
Cover
image: Vega-Zett-2, ©Victor Vasarely, 1971
David Glover
William Outhwaite Etienne Balibar
Manuela Bojadzije
William Outhwaite The State (and Society) of Europe
Claudia Aradau Only Aporias to Offer? Etienne Balibar's Politics
and the Ambiguity of War
Iain Chambers Borders
and the Boundaries of Democracy
Fabio Vighi and
James Procter The Postcolonial Everyday
Timothy Bewes Paul Auster's Cinematographic Fictions: Against the
Ontology of the Present
Jeremy Gilbert
In Defence of 'In Defence of Disco'
Richard Dyer In Defence of Disco
Jeremy Gilbert Dyer And Deleuze: Post-Structuralist Cultural Criticism
Tim Lawrence In Defence of Disco (Again)
REVIEWS
Graeme Gilloch Ornament and Kracauer
Mara Mills From Interactivity to Affectivity
Michael Pickering Modernity and the Concept of Experience
William H. Thornton John Gray's Navigational Problem
Melissa Gregg If You Don't Know Me by Now - Cultural Studies' Perpetual
Introduction
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