From: John Armitage <john.armitage-AT-unn.ac.uk>
Subject: ANGELAKI 4.2: MACHINIC MODULATIONS
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:00:31 -0000


From: John Armitage [john.armitage-AT-unn.ac.uk;
j.armitage-AT-technologica.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999, 8.25AM
To: Baudrillard and Dromology lists
Subject: ToC: ANGELAKI 4.2: MACHINIC MODULATIONS: NEW CULTURAL THEORY &
TECHNOPOLITICS
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Hello fatal strategists and dromologists everywhere

After nearly three years in the making, it gives me great pleasure to
announce the publication of ANGELAKI 4.2: MACHINIC MODULATIONS: NEW
CULTURAL THEORY & TECHNOPOLITICS. As you will see from the e-flyer and
Table of Contents below, the issue contains contributions from many
distinguished authors and artists in the field of critical cultural
theory, technology, and politics. Consequently, I would be very
grateful if friends and colleagues would post the e-flyer on e-lists far
and wide. Copies can be obtained through Carfax - see the web address
below.

Best wishes

John Armitage

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MACHINIC MODULATIONS
new cultural theory & technopolitics
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The new issue of _Angelaki: journal of the theoretical
humanities_ is out. Please find the contents below. For more
information on the journal, please visit:
http://www.carfax.co.uk/ang-ad.htm



A N G E L A K I
journal of the theoretical humanities

volume 4 number 2 september 1999


special issue: MACHINIC MODULATIONS
               new cultural theory & technopolitics
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issue editor: John Armitage, 
              University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK

are cybernetic machines and postmodern cultural theories of
technology now yielding to new *hypermodern* theories and the
emergence of technopolitics? the writers assembled here present a
variety of perspectives on contemporary technocultural and
technopolitical practices, ranging across the key contributions of
marxist, situationist, post-marxist, poststructuralist, postmodern, 
and hypermodern theorists.


CONTENTS
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Editorial Introduction 
John Armitage  1

     Section I: New Cultural Theory

All That is Solid Melts into Airwaves 
McKenzie Wark  19

Situationist Strategies and Mutant Technologies 
Alastair Bonnett    25

Theory, Technology and Cultural Power: 
An Interview with Manuel Castells 
Joanne Roberts      33

Crash Theory: 
The Ubiquity of the Fetish at the End of Time 
Roy Boyne      41

A Virtual Theory of Global Politics, Mimetic War, and the
Spectral State 
James Der Derian    53

Dissecting the Data Body: 
An Interview with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 
John Armitage  69

Bathos of Technology and Politics in Fourth Order Simulacra 
Mike Gane      75

The Information Bomb: 
A Conversation 
Paul Virilio and Friedrich Kittler      81

Data Crash: 
Apocalypse and Global Economic Crisis 
Michael A. Weinstein     91

Stories from the Research Labs 
Text and Pictures
Louise K. Wilson    95

     Section II: Technopolitics

Globalisation from Below? 
Toward a Radical Democratic Technopolitics 
Douglas Kellner     101

Ontological Anarchy, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, and The
Politics of Cyberculture: 
A Critique of Hakim Bey
John Armitage       115

Whither the Virtual: 
Slavoj Zizek and Cyberfeminism 
Verena Andermatt Conley       129

Theory of State: 
Deleuze, Guattari, and Virilio on the State, Technology and Speed
Patrick Crogan      137

The Female UNIX 
Mark Dery      149

Touch, Digital Communication and the Ticklish 
Cathryn Vasseleu    153

Against Virtual Community: 
For a Politics of Distance 
Kevin Robins   163

Conducting Technologies: 
Virilio's and Latour's Philosophies of the Present State 
T. Hugh Crawford    171

Getting "The Real Facts": 
Contemporary Cultural Theory and Avant-Garde Technocultural
Practices 
Nicholas Zurbrugg   183

Practical Anarchy:
An Interview with Critical Art Ensemble 
Mark Little    192

Pictures throughout by Louise K. Wilson and Critical Art Ensemble

ISBN 0 902879 26 X


About ANGELAKI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ is 
a print journal published three times a year by Carfax 
Publishing Limited. The journal publishes two theme 
issues and one general issue per volume. ISSN: 0969-725X.

_Angelaki_ was selected Best New Journal in the 1996
Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards.

For further details of the journal and contents
listings please visit:
http://www.carfax.co.uk/ang-ad.htm

'Since its inception in 1993, the journal _Angelaki_ has
established itself as a leading forum of theoretical reflection,
providing a practical refutation of all those who would celebrate
"the end of theory." Whether it is focused on thematic issues of
the most varied nature, introducing thinkers to English-language
readers, or treating a variety of problems in open issues,
_Angelaki_ challenges the complacency of the self-evident.
Required reading for the next millennium.'
                                   Samuel Weber