Kritikos: an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

ISSN 1552-5112

Contributors

Camelia Elias

Associate Professor of American Studies, Department of Culture and Identity, Univeristy of Roskilde, Denmark.

Gerry Coulter

Professor of Sociology, specializing in theory, visual art and photography at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is founding editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Nicholas Ruiz III

was born in New York City in 1970 and lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA. He is the author of America in Absentia (2008), Integral Reality (with Robert Hassan, forthcoming, 2010) and The Metaphysics of Capital, (2006).  He is also the editor of Kritikos.

Ruiz’s work involves cultural theory and criticism, art and aural theory. His first book, The Metaphysics of Capital, articulates a theory of capital that breaks with traditional analyses that render capital a strictly social phenomenon involving modes of labor and industrial production. In his analysis, capital is a natural phenomenon rendered via the action of the genetic code capitalizing in environments. In this sense, we are all capitalists, even while seeking social transformation via new political structures. Hence, capital is what Ruiz calls a ‘currency of the code.’ His second book, America in Absentia (2008), is a cultural analysis of postmodern America.

Stefano Petrucciani

is Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Department of Philosophical Studies and Epistemology at the University of Rome.

Paul Stasi

is Assistant Professor of English in the University of Albany, SUNY.

Phillip Mahoney

is a PhD candidate in the English Department of Temple University, USA.

William Pawlett

is a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He received his PhD in Sociology from Loughborough University and is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. He is the author of Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality (Routledge 2007).

Rebecka Molin

is co-editor of the International Journal of Feminist Technoscience, and a doctoral student in technoscience studies at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Darren Jorgensen

is Head of Program, Internet Studies, Curtin University, Western Australia.

Richard Grego

Dr. Grego is Associate Professor of Cultural Arts in the Daytona State College.

Michael Flota

Dr. Flota is Associate Professor of Behavioral, Human and Social Sciences in the Daytona State College.

James Newell

Assistant Professor of English in the Daytona State College.

Catharina Landström

is a researcher in the Dept. of History of Ideas and Theory of Science, Göteborg University, in Sweden.

Jodie Taylor

Jodie Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia.

Harold A. Veeser

Dr. Veeser is Associate Professor of English in the City College of New York.

Rodney Sharkey

Dr. Rodney Sharkey teaches literature in the Cornell campus of Doha, Qatar.

Haidar Eid

Dr. Haidar Eid teaches in the Department of English at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza City

Senayon Olaoluwa

Senayon S. Olaoluwa holds a Masters in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently undertaking doctoral research in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His primary research area has been the politics of globalization in literature.

Travis English

Modern Art History and Criticism Program, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Irina Kruk

Artist, MFA, Digital Imaging, Columbia College

Paul A. Taylor

is currently Course Director of the Masters Degree in Communications Studies in the University of Leeds and General Editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies. His recent books include: Digital Matters: Theory & Culture of the Matrix, Routledge 2005 (Paul A. Taylor & Jan Ll. Harris)

Cristina Albu

Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Recent publications: “The Disavowal of Modernity via the Fusion of Science and Art in Olafur Eliasson’s Site-Specific Installations” Natural Selections: Art, Science, and Exchange with the Natural World Symposium, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2006; “The Indexicality of the Triptych Video Constructions in Isaac Julien’s True North and Fantôme Afrique” in Eveline Bernasconi (ed.), Isaac Julien. True North - Fantôme Afrique. Hatje Kantz, 2006.

D. Venkat Rao

is a Professor in the School of Critical Humanities, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad 500 007, India

Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

(pronounced Kee-veen O Cree-awn) is an Irish artist who has exhibited widely around Ireland. His work consists of drawings and paintings and features local scenes as well as images from his travels to the west of Ireland and abroad. His social and political themes range from the local to the global. Caoimhghin studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin where he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. He subsequently undertook post-graduate study in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies in Dublin City University obtaining a Masters degree in Communications and Cultural Studies. Caoimhghin is an Irish speaker and holds a PhD in Language and Politics which is published under the title: Language from Below: The Irish Language, Ideology and Power in the Twentieth Century. He completed work recently in Dublin City University as a researcher on the TRASNA project (a web-based database of references to translations of Irish literature globally) and as a part-time lecturer. His interests vary widely from listening to Irish traditional, world and classical music, teaching Set and Ceilí dancing and researching family history. He is currently concentrating his time on a new show based on political and environmental themes. 

Manuela Rossini

is a postdoctoral Fellow ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis). She studied English and Spanish at the University of Basel (CH) where she graduated with an MA thesis on the metaphor of exile in Jean Rhys. She then worked at the Hochschule St. Gallen (CH) as a research assistant for the English-German critical edition of Shakespeare's King Lear, before she went to Cardiff (UK) to do a second MA in Critical and Cultural Theory in 1994/95. From 1995-2000 she was teaching in the Department of English at the University of Basel, from where she also received her PhD in 2002 with a dissertation called From House to Home: Meanings of the Family in Early Modern English Drama and Culture. She acted as the coordinator of a proposal for an interdisciplinary National Centre for Competence in Research in the field of Gender Studies before a postdoc scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation took her to the Netherlands. She is the editor of a collection of essays called Gender Matters - Gender Talks: Gender Studies at the Interface of Biology, Medicine, the Social Sciences and the Humanities (forthcoming). She is currently working on a transdisciplinary book project, titled Science/Fiction: Imagineering the Future of the Human, and recently organized the 4th European Conference of the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts), in Amsterdam in June 2006, hosted by ASCA. 

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. He has contributed to the development of the media arts through his artistic and research practice at a variety of noted international institutions including the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, Smithsonian Institution (The Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, United States of America), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany), Designskolen (Denmark), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Waseda University; Kobe University of Design (Japan), Central European University (Hungary).

Nikolas Rose

is James Martin White Professor of Sociology and Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Psychological Complex, Governing the Soul, Inventing Our Selves, and Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought, and The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming in December 2006; Princeton UP)

Shane Weller

Educated at both Oxford and Yale universities, Shane Weller was awarded his D.Phil. at Oxford in 1999 and is now a lecturer in English at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His main areas of research interest are modern British, Irish, and European literatures, and his publications include a translation of Voltaire's Candide and articles on modern literature and literary theory. He has recently completed a monograph on Samuel Beckett titled A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism.

Adriana Neagu

is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literature at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu. She is the author of Sublimating the Postmodern Discourse: toward a Post-Postmodern Fiction in the Writings of Paul Auster and Peter Ackroyd (2001), In the Future Perfect: the Rise and Fall of Postmodernism (2001) and a vast body of articles in contemporary literature, critical and cultural studies. Previous affiliations include a Leverhulme Fellowship at University of East Anglia, a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and visiting positions at University of Oxford, the University of Bergen, and University of London. She is currently working on a book on representations of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s work.

Brian McHale

is Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University. He is the author of three books on postmodernism, Postmodernist Fiction (1987) and Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and a study of postmodernist long poems, entitled The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole, (2004) published by the University of Alabama Press in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series, as well as many essays on modernist and postmodernist literature, science fiction and narratology. A volume co-edited with Randall Stevenson, "The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English," will appear from Edinburgh University Press in July 2006. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McHale was educated at Brown University and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he earned his doctorate. He was affiliated from 1979 to 1993 with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics,and tenured at Tel-Aviv University, where he helped organize a number of landmark international conferences. (One of them appears, lightly fictionalized, near the end of David Lodge’s comic novel Small World.) He has also taught at Tampere University (Finland), the University of Freiburg (Germany), and the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Associate Editor at Poetics Today, edited at Tel Aviv University and published by Duke University Press.

Slawomir Magala

is Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at the School of Management at the Erasmus University, where he also chairs the Department of Organizational Sciences and Human Resource Management. He also works as a teacher and consultant for the European Union, predominantly in the business education of post-communist countries (e.g. China, Russia, Estonia etc).  He has published numerous books, articles and research reports in the areas of cross-cultural management and organizational change, and teaches on change management programs for middle managers with Europe's leading business schools. He is also editor of the Journal of Organizational and Change Management.

Marie-Thérèse Killiam

is professor of French in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Sweet Briar College, VA.

Jenni Drozdek

is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She is also Art Editor and a contributing writer at The Front.

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty is one of today's most celebrated philosophers and social commentators. His books include Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers I, Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America, Truth and Progress: Philosphical Papers III, and Philosphy and Social Hope.

David Berry

David Berry is a researcher at the University of Sussex, UK and a member of the research collective The Libre Society. He writes on 
issues surrounding intellectual property, immaterial labour, politics, free software and copyleft.

Jo Pawlik

Jo Pawlik is a doctoral student at the University of Sussex researching the interaction between the American counterculture and 
French poststructuralism, focusing in particular on the deployment and political purchase of the concepts of madness and schizophrenia.

Barry Sandywell

is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at York, UK. He is the author of Logological Investigations (Routledge, 1996), a multi-volume work on the history of reflexivity, alterity and ethics in philosophy and the human sciences: Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason (volume 1), The Beginnings of European Theorizing: Reflexivity in the Archaic Age (volume 2), and Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse (volume 3). He is also the co-editor, with Ian Heywood, of Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual (Routledge, 1999) and of essays on Baudrillard, Bakhtin, Benjamin and others published in various journals and collections. His most recent publications are `E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel. On the Democratizing and De-democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Towards a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism’, in Theory, Culture and Society,Special Issue on Cosmopolis, Vol. 19 (1-2), February-April 2002 [co-written with Martin Hand], `Metacritique of Information’, in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 20 (1), January 2003 and `The Myth of Everyday Life: Toward a Heterology of the Ordinary’ and `Beyond Metaphysics and Nihilism, in Michael E. Gardiner and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds., Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out, Cultural Studies, London: Routledge,18 (2/3), 2004.

David Beer

is currently writing up a PhD on the digitalisation of music and music culture in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. He is also a visiting lecturer and researcher in the School of Arts at York St John College. His publications include: ‘Stylistic Morphing: Notes on the digitisation of contemporary music culture’, co-written with Barry Sandywell, in Convergence: The international journal of research into new media, volume 11, number 4; ‘Sooner or later we will melt together: Framing the digital in the everyday’, in First Monday, Volume 10, number 8; ‘Capturing the livingness and liveliness of critique-in-action’, in Sociological Research Online, volume 10, number 3: and, an edited special issue of First Monday on Music and the Internet, Special Issue No.1, published July 2005.

Patrick Fontana

artist, actor, director.

2005 Emission France Culture: une vie, une oeuvre, Ghérasim Luca. 2004 GRENZE. Publication de dessins dans le livre « le monde diplomatique 50 » pour les cinquante ans du journal. 2002-2003. Exposition Changer son matin, CRAC de Valence, du 11 juin au 19 juillet 2003, présentation du travail la bande à venir avec une esquisse. Randglossen, recherche plastique autour d’une lecture du Capital de Karl Marx. 2001 Réalisateur de Aussi long que la roue tourne, film sur le graphisme (20 minutes) réalisé en collaboration avec Myr Muratet pour l’AGI, l’Alliance Graphique Internationale avec le soutient de la Délégation aux Arts Plastiques (DAP). (éditions vidéo 2002, mirage illimité éditions). Depuis juin 2001 Patrick Fontana intervient à AERI, association qui s’occupe de l’insertion de personnes en difficulté, à Montreuil où il réalise des montages autour de la parole commune. La bande à venir avec une esquisse, recherche plastique (grands formats) autour des séminaires de Jacques Rancière (l’idée esthétique) et de Giorgio Agamben (Qu’est-ce que la philosophie). Exposition Chemin de fer de gravures avec Florence Hinneburg, Les Métallos, Paris. Avant 2000 Acteur dans Aujourd’hui Madame de César Vayssié ; Exit, un long-métrage d’Olivier Megaton ; Bords et Bouts, une pièce d’Alain Béhar, Théâtre des Bernardines,Marseille. /Patrick Fontana rejoint le comité de direction de la revue politique Alice, publiée avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres (CNL). Acteur dans Monochromes une pièce d’Alain Béhar, Avignon festival 1999, XXVIème Rencontre de La Chartreuse. Publication dans le Monde Diplomatique (juin 99) d’une série de dessins Les Télés. Parution du livre Les Télés, recherche plastique autour du séminaire de Toni Négri, préface de Toni Négri. Fondation du groupe MAE, Moments d’Attraction étranges avec Christophe d’Hallivillée, Christine Spianti, Olivier Derousseau, Alain Béhar, Sylvain Gaudenzi, Armelle Nicolas-Robin, Dominique Cara. Exposition, Projet à suivre ailleurs, à Lille avec Olivier Derousseau. Concepteur avec Hervé Leblanc du décor de Public émission TV. Parution du livre Faux carrés, peintures et textes d’Alain Béhar. Concepteur du décor d’Epandages de Catherine Baugué, Théâtre en mai, Dijon. Acteur dans Aurélia un long-métrage de Christophe d’Hallivillée. Parution du livre 15/07 27/06, dessins et textes avec Alain Béhar. Violences une pièce de Didier- Georges Gabily, dessins, éditions Actes Sud. Acteur dans Violences de Didier-Georges Gabily, TCI Paris Phèdres et Hippolytes de Didier-Georges Gabily, d’après Racine, Euripide, Sénèque, Garnier, Ritsos.

Aelters

electronic music et ancien manipulateur analogique, Aelters est un ex-membre de ‘dat politics’ (quartet électronique formé en octobre 1998) ayant collaboré avec des artistes internationaux tels que Blectum from Blechdom, Matmos, Felix Kubin, Lesser et invité à se produire plusieurs fois en live aux Etats-Unis, Japon, Europe. Son premier album, « el frustrator» , fut réalisé en 2000 sur le label français ski-pp (goodiepal, felix kubin...) et un 3», «volu beit», l’année suivante sur le label américain tigerbeat6 (kid 606, gold chains...). Le dernier album «ardchilds’com.undo» est produit sur le label allemand sonig (oval, mouse on mars, microstoria, fx randomiz, scrach pet land...).

Album : ‘el frustrator’ 1999 > (skipp 002) cd. ‘ardchilds com.undo’ 2003 > (sonig 029) lp/cd. Various tracks/remixes/ compilation :

‘1rst fish & stroop’ (felix kubin, dat politics, blectum from blechdom.../skipp 003 cd). /‘tigerbeat6, INC.’ (max tundra, lesser, kpt michi.gan...../meow 012 cd), 2002. ‘and the beat goes off’ (kid 606, gold chains, dj rupture.../tigerbeat6, meow 050), 2002. ‘iliation.’ (mouse on mars, schlammpeitziger, vert ...sonig 26cd/26lp), 2003. ‘2nd coco waffle flake’ (nathan michel, goodiepal, anne laplantine.../skipp 007 cd),2003. ‘noodles discotheque vol.?’ (mouse on mars, wevie stonder, niobe.../ lp), 2004.

12» : ‘planet fight club’ (kid 606, Com.a, Dwayne Sodahberk.../tigerbeat6, meow 099). 3» : ‘ volu beit’ 2002 > (tigerbeat6, meow 028)

dat politics album :

‘sous hit’ 2001 cd > digital narcis (dncd009) lp > tigerbeat 6 (meow037) ‘villiger’ 2000 cd/lp > a-musik (a23) ‘tracto flirt’ 1999 lp > skipp (skipp01) cd > tigerbeat6 (meow007)

7» :’pata jet’ 2000 7» > bottrop-boy (bb002)

Various tracks/remixes/ compilation :

‘back from...’: dat politics, kid 606, goodiepal, kevin blechdom ... (Tigerbeat6) ‘nanoloop comp’ : dat politics, merzbow, pita , scratch pet land , . . . (nanoloop) ‘fodder serie’ (mp3) dat politics , pimmon , richard chartier , . . . (FSÿllt FF0099) ‘tigerbeat inc.’ : dat politics, aelters, tujiko noriko , lesser, . . . (tigerbeat6) ‘clicks and cuts 2 ‘ : dat politics, fennesz, matmos, pansonic, kit clayton, . . . (mille plateaux) ‘remix tomorrow good bye ‘ auch remix : dat politics, farben, ricardo villalobos ,(force inc.)

1st fist & stroop’ skipp comp : dat politics,felix kubin, blectum from blechdom, (skipp) ‘impakt comp’ : dat politics,markus schmikler, komet, noto , . . . (impakt) ‘ars electronica comp’ : dat politics, radian, uli troyer, gescom, ryoji ikeda. ‘attitude comp ‘: dat politics , matmos , pimmon , v/vm , kid 606, lesser, . . . (tigerbeat6) ‘split 12 « serie’ : dat politics / process (fat cat)

Pierre-Yves Fave

Graphic designer.

2004 Réalisation d’une vidéo « After Len Lye » collaboration avec Dominique Gonzalez Foerster.

2002-2003 Création et réalisation d’une vidéo projection Haute Définition pour l’installation de Dominique Gonzalez Foerster « EXOTOURISME » présentée à Beaubourg, Rotterdam, Valencia. Effets spéciaux 2D et 3D Maya, After-Effects. Authoring DVD pour l’artiste Xavier Veilhan. El Farolito Paris Tango Magazine mise en ligne du site Web. Mod-Tv : Habillage Télévision, génériques. Création de décors en projection vidéo pour La pièce de théâtre «Cloud Techtonics », animation et image fixe. Création et réalisation d’une Vidéo projection pour La Documenta (Kassel) « Park : A plan for escape » présentée en extérieur. Montage sous After Effects. Réalisation d’une vidéo numérique sous After-Effects pour une installation de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster présentée à Yokohama « Petite » : Chroma-Key … Création et intégration d’une borne interactive pour la société GOUET. Images de Synthèse, Vidéos (4 CD) Intégration sous Director, 3d sur Maya, montage des vidéos.

Avant 2000 Lardux Films : Intégration et montage du court-métrage « On a beau être bête, on a faim quand même » réalisé en dessin animé et dans Photoshop en Haute Résolution, intégré sous After Effects. Shooté en Film 35 mm. Artrack : Création et réalisation de vidéos institutionnelles, publicités, animations, sur After Effects et station DPS. Cd ROM Grands Compositeurs réalisation de l’animation d’introduction, préparation des images pour l’intégration sous Director. Documentaire « Duchenne de Boulogne ou l’anatomie des passions ». Création d’un morphing d’après le fonds de photos anciennes du docteur Charcot. Lay-out man 3d (préparation des animations, mise en place des éléments, cadrage sur softimage-3d pour « Rollie Pollie Ollie » série d’animation 3d pour Sparx. Moniteur à la base d’infographie de l’école des Beaux-Arts durant 3 ans : assistance technique et cours d’initiation à la 3d sur Softimage. Cd ROM Marcel Marceau : création de l’arborescence, d’une partie de l’interface etpréparation des médias.

Joseph Nechvatal

Dr. Nechvatal