SPECIAL ISSUE VOLUME THREE ISSUE THREE NOVEMBER 2007 Peter Sloterdijk CULTURAL POLITICS Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan Printed in the UK Cultural Politics enjoys an agreement with the Chinese journal Cultural Studies, published in Beijing, that allows selected articles to be published in both journals nearly simultaneously, thus furthering intellectual exchange between English and Chinese-speaking academicians and artists. Cultural Politics invites papers comprising a broad range of subjects, methodological approaches, and historical and social events. Such papers may take the form of articles and case studies, review essays, interviews, book reviews, field reports, interpretative critiques and visual essays. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on: representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry and war; power, authority and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyses how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalised or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches and geographical locations. AIMS AND SCOPE Berg Publishers is a member of CrossRef Cultural Politics is indexed by Baywood’s Abstracts in Anthropology; CSA: British Humanities Index; KG Saur Verlag (Thomson): IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences; LSE: IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); KG Saur Verlag (Thomson): IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Human and Social Sciences; CSA: Sociological Abstracts; and CSA: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts ISSN (print): 1743-2197 ISSN (online): 1751-7435 ©2007 Berg. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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