... of cities that Simone and Pieterse focus on. But readers of this review, wherever in the world they work, should engage with New Urban Worlds for its inspiring suggestions about how to build from the “precarious now” to “possible futures” (56). In a book that casts multiplicity as possibility...

... between the work of the tradition represented by Matthew Arnold and that of cultural studies. This second Foucault was, for me, a much more productive one, making new kinds of work possible. His approach to the self, and to technologies of the self, made available new ways of thinking about how...

... an empathic relation. In recent critical texts addressing ecological dilemmas, care emerges as a diagram—an intermediate form—between possibility and event. Both palliative and favoring what is possible, care is inflected multifariously and with uncommon force of attraction in the materialist philosophy...

...-hop, the “official communicative idiom” of today's global youth culture, stands in stark opposition to earlier eras and to the music of artists like Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix, which “intimated utopian possibilities” and was “charged with political and moral radicalism, social responsibility...

... that the aesthetic, as a register that does not (wish to) articulate its demands on law in the latter's terms, nevertheless critiques and calls on law insofar as these sites (re)mark the present against (im)possible Justice. In the relations between the absent bodies of the disappeared, the desires of the “social...

... flights of autobiography dictated while traveling in automated transport. I argue that in an auto poem like “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” Ginsberg develops a poetic “potentialism” whereby lyric language is made a vehicle for new possibilities and powers of individual feeling and dissent. Combating...

... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...

... of micropolitical art practices. I will concentrate on one possible answer to the critical questions that must be asked: wherein lies the possibility of resistance in Sloterdijk’s recent analyses of capitalism? © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 philosophy art media critique ecology micropolitics...

... the respective approaches are insufficient to elucidate the genuinely radical possibilities we may harbor for the Internet. The case study of “hypertextual databases” or “wikis” is used, both to contextualize the limitations of the above arguments and to present a more radical overture for thinking about network...

..., the reality is that it was always so. In the context of the new articulations of complexity, however, it becomes crucial to develop more imaginative and resonant forms of understanding and dealing with cultural change. Certain possibilities are put forward—though only as possibilities among many potential...

...Valeria Graziano Abstract The hypothesis of a post-work society has provoked a newfound interest in the role of imagination in political thinking, made explicit by many authors who turned to the literary genres of utopian and sci-fi writing to sketch possible scenarios of a jobless future...

...Joff P. N. Bradley Abstract Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation ( Bildung ) and the possibility...

... historical and cultural formations. This article will briefly explore some of the possible meanings of disruptive luxury, before focusing on new technology, especially rapid prototyping or 3-D printing, as a possible route to luxury’s disruption. Utilizing a fashion spread from American Vogue of 1977...

... that makes it possible to construct a somewhat more hesitant account, not least, or so I argue, because hesitant accounts are closer to the way the world is. © BERG 2005 PRINTED IN THE UK 2005 We're here to go. That's what we're here for. We're here to go … ( Burroughs 1990 ) Remorse, predictably...

... possibility. The concepts of political culture and cultural politics are discussed as valuable for thinking through the relationship between ethical cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy and there is preliminary investigation of three different types of “jurisgenerative politics,” considered as sites...

... consumption by acceleration, we argue, both occludes the lack of substantive change actually occurring while simultaneously delimiting possibilities of thinking of and enacting the truly radical. We also consider how this setup is maintained, thus attempting to shed some light on why we are seemingly running...

... – in order to raise questions concerning the possibility of an unacknowledged and problematic contiguity between Badiou’s thought and the very philosophies it claims to surpass. © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009 archive gender philosophy Badiou Derrida Hegel Kant Plato There are two...

...Carlo Milani Drawing on the work of Gilbert Simondon, this article explores the creative, subversive potential of organized autonomous networks through an examination of the possibilities and pitfalls of a collective, net-based practice of writing. References Ballard J.G. 1962...