... of “life politics” ( Giddens 1991 ) and “individualization” ( Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002 ). The article argues that the concept of lifestyle extends beyond the pursuit of leisure and consumption practices and that lifestyle politics involves the expression of individual rights, the management of risk...

...John Beck Abstract The phrase “on the beach” originates as naval slang for being between assignments or unemployed and was used as the title for Nevil Shute's bestselling novel of 1957 about the last remaining survivors of a global nuclear conflict as they await their inevitable demise. The novel...

...John Beck; Paul Crosthwaite 1. The recent emergence of speed as a core concern among humanities and social sciences scholars in Britain, North America, and Australasia is clearly dependent in large part upon the increased availability and visibility of Virilio's writings in the Anglophone...

...John Beck Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (1971) is the apotheosis of the Vietnam-era exploitation/arthouse existentialist road movies produced in the wake of Easy Rider. Vanishing Point is about speed and technology, surveillance and control, acceleration and catastrophe, roads, deserts...

...John Beck; Mark Dorrian Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples of speculative fiction since at least the nineteenth century, but the invention of nuclear weapons and the prospect of global environmental collapse have, certainly since the Cold War, made proposals offering...

...John Beck; Ryan Bishop In North America, there are over one hundred programs and labs committed to collaborative experimentation in art and technology. This article examines the current prominence of art and technology labs in the context of the resurgence of collaborative practice in the arts...

...John Beck The defensive systems of fortified bunkers built during the twentieth century have become, especially since the end of the Cold War, objects of troubled fascination for artists, architects, and archaeologists. Images of bunkers proliferate in contemporary art and photography...

...John Beck In late 2012 a communications satellite called EchoStar XVI launched into space from Kazakhstan where it remains in a geostationary orbit around Earth. The satellite contains artist and geographer Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures , a collection of one hundred images, sourced from...

...Rob Bullard Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature , by Beck John , Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 , 378 pages , $55.00 (hardcover) , ISBN 978-0-8032-2631-9 © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 John Beck, in this craftily spun...

... .” Sociology 33 ( 2 ): 224 – 27 . Barlow Rich. 2004 . “ Weighing Teachings on Gluttony .” Boston Globe , October 16: B2 . Beck Ulrich Giddens Anthony Lash Scott. 1994 . Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order . Stanford...

... and van Loon 2000 : 6). Termed “manufactured uncertainty” ( Beck 1999 ; Giddens 1994 ), this phenomenon spreads its hazards over space and time ( Adam and van Loon 2000 : 6) in Beck’s (1999) “world risk society.” Adam and van Loon (2000 : 13) point out that “the double paradox of un/calculability...

... Andy . 2001 . “ Californian Ideology .” In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias , edited by Ludlow Peter , 363 – 87 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Beck Ulrich . 1992 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . Translated by Ritter Mark . London : Sage...

... Benhabib (2002: 181) observes, “we have entered a world in which liberal democracies will have to come to grips with the end of unitary citizenship.” The way forward could involve the responsibility for different functions being fulfilled by different agencies, at different spatial scales. Ulrich Beck...

... of the collection, John Beck and Mark Dorrian develop the idea of the imagined geography of utopia and dystopia through a discussion of Cold War narratives of catastrophe and escape. Here, imagined utopian and dystopian scenarios are located above and below the world in endless space and fiery underworlds. Building...

... firm that Max and Beck work for goes out of business. The reason that a colleague gives Beck for this sudden failure, despite the firm's previous success in off-loading its cheap plastic gimmicks on an unsuspecting public, is that nobody believes in the firm any more. Whilst this might indicate...

... discourse of danger never anticipated by Ulrich Beck (1992) in the shape of the “risk assessment form” used in British universities to systematize student activities, to consider what could go wrong, to decide on suitable control measures, to prevent loss, damage, or injury, and to eliminate, reduce...

... . The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism . London : Verso . Bauman Z. 1990 . Modernity and Ambivalence . Cambridge : Polity . Bauman Z. 2000 . Globalization: the Human Consequences . Cambridge : Polity . Beck V. 2000 . What is Globalization? Cambridge : Polity...

... of Australia. References Abbas A. and Nguyet Erni J. (eds). 2004 . Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology . Oxford : Basil Blackwell . Beck U. Beck-Gernsheim E. 2002 . Individualization . London : Sage . Bennett T. 1992 . “ Putting Policy...

... and Ulrich Beck, Bauman saw liquidity as the state of humans without a commons, freed from everything except responsibility for their individual affairs. Like Brown, he saw individuals damned to look after themselves and to take the consequences if they don’t. There is no we , as there was in the industrial...

... . 2001 . The Individualized Society . London : Polity . Bauman Zygmunt . 2004 . Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts . Malden, MA : Polity . Beck Ulrich . 2009 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE . Borger Julian . 2021 . “ CIA...