Kulturpolitiken debatteras livligt, samtidigt som gränsen mellan kulturpolitik och andra politikområden luckrats upp. Sådant som förknippats med kultursektorn har alltmer blivit en del av de »nya ekonomierna«, men har det förbättrat kulturproduktionens villkor? I Fronesis nr 31 introduceras [...]
Self-regulation theory focuses on the ways in which individuals direct and monitor their activities and emotions in order to attain their goals. The Self-regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour presents an up-to-date account of the latest developments in the field, covering representational belie[...]
Explains how the demands of companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the culture of file sharing has given rise to a class conflict in which creators of the information are lined up against a possessing class who monopolize what the hackers produce.[...]
Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play yet cannot win? Welcome to gamespace. Gamespace is where and how we live today. It is everywhere and nowhere: the main chance, the best shot, the big leagues, the only game in town. In a wor[...]
The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and commodities once moved at the same speed as the information organizi[...]
"Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child's play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-peddler whatever. I forget who I am. You reminded me of who[...]
Of all the "liberation movements" of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon. Today, the "carbon liberation front" threatens to crash the entire climate system. In Molecular Red, Wark[...]
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, they continue to influence activists, artists and theorists. From the Invisible Committee's bestselling The Coming Insurrection to Iain Sinclair's psychogeographic explorations, their work is still found to be rich with possibilities, y[...]
Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep[...]