[csaa-forum] Transformations Issue 15 'Walter Benjamin and the Virtual' now out

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations announces the publication of Issue 15 -  November 2007


Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of
Global Culture

This edition of Transformations focuses on the influence Walter Benjamin
continues to have on contemporary thought. It seeks to create a dialogue
between contemporary scholars, theorists, and writers from a range of
disciplines and practices with Benjamin¹s ideas on politics, art, and
representation in the context of a shift from mass to global culture. In
this increasingly privately mediated culture, virtually transmitted
communicational artifacts are playing an important role in not only shaping
the nature of representation, but the nature of being human itself.

Articles

Walter Benjamin on Photography: Towards Elemental Politics
Mika Elo

Benjamin, Trauma and the Virtual
Allen Meek

Cybersurgery and Surgical (Dis)embodiment: Technology, Science, Art and the
Body
Julie Doyle

Fossilising the Commodity: Tactical Engagements with Time, Art and the
Virtual in Models by Ricky Swallow
Marita Bullock

Aura as Productive Loss
Warwick Mules

The Horror of Disconnection: The Auratic in Technological Malfunction
Martin Dixon

³Politicizing Art²: Benjamin¹s Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age
of Fascism
Amresh Sinha

Dialectical Film Criticism: Walter Benjamin¹s Historiography, Cultural
Critique and the Archive
Catherine Russell

The Dissipating Aura of Cinema
Kristen Daly

>From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin
@ the Web 2.0
Simon Lindgren

Contemplative Immersion: Benjamin, Adorno & Media Art Criticism
Daniel Palmer

Tillers of the Soil/Travelling Journeymen: Modes of the Virtual
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul

Paradise Regained? The Work of Mediation Technology in an Age of Open
Communities
John Grech

Go to this issue at the following site:

http://transformationsjournal.org/



The Editors
Regards

Warwick


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General Editor, Transformations     http://transformationsjournal.org/


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