Fast Capitalism

Fast Capitalism

7.1

Looking over the Cliff: Globalizing Inequalities and the Challenge for a Global Social Theory

Jason Powell

Activism in the Fast Lane: Social Movements and the Neglect of Time

Kamilla Pietrzyk

Death-Drive America: On Scott Wilson’s Vision of the Cultural Politics of American Nihilism in the Age of Supercapitalism

Mark Featherstone

Community Accessibility: Tweeters Take Responsibility for an Accessible Web 2.0

Katie Ellis and Mike Kent

Mayhem, Magic, Movement and Methods: Teaching and Learning about Hearing and Listening

Tara Brabazon

Blast Wind: Phantomenology, Modernity, and the Remains of Art

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Europe: Dream of Unity, Reality of Divisions

Aleš Debeljak

The Nostalgia of Jon Stewart: The Looming Extinction of Journalism

James C. Smoot

Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered

Henry Giroux

Making Cents: Life Below the Bottom Rung

Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

6.1

One Story High  (link)

5.1

Reflections on Leaving Facebook

David Hill

Ethnography, Torture and the Human Terrain / Terror Systems

Neil L. Whitehead

The Contribution of Implosion to the Exuberance of the Dead

George Sanders

The Cult of Exchange Value and the Critical Theory of Spectacle

Mark P. Worrell

Marcuse In America—Exile As Educator

Charles Reitz

Sign Story: Shifting Discourse on ‘signage’ in Progressive Grocer Magazine, or the Supermarket Under Late Capitalism

Mario Rodriguez

The Workers May Yet Unite: Media Misdirection Versus The Political and Cultural Economy of the US Auto Industry and Worker Attitudes

George N. Lundskow, Brian Phillips, Phyllis Curtiss, Katherine Rehorst, Allison M. Wehr Bennett

Appetite for Destruction: On Naomi Klein’s Neo-liberal Utopia-Dystopia

Mark Featherstone

The Iranian Uprisings and the Challenge of the New Media: Rethinking the Politics of Representation

Henry A. Giroux

Che and Me

Mark Rudd

Review of Thomas P. Wheatland,The Frankfurt School in America: A Transatlantic Odyssey from Exile to Acclaim

Douglas Kellner

5.1

The “Americanization” of Critical Theory: A Legacy of Paul Piccone and Telos

Timothy W. Luke

Absolutizing the Particular

Robert J. Antonio

Knowing the Unknowable Paul Piccone

Alan Sica

Paul Piccone: Outside Academe

Russell Jacoby

Café Narcissism

Jamie Dangler and Mark P. Worrell

The Editor, the Journal, the Project

Russell A. Berman

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Retrospective on Telos

Scott G. McNall

Schmitt, Telos, the Collapse of the Weimar Constitution, and the Bad Conscience of the Left

Stephen Turner

What is Federalism?: On Piccone’s Late Political Philosophy

Robert D'Amico

“Carving out an identity for itself”: The work of Telos over forty years

Elisabeth Chaves

My Telos: A Journal of No Illusions

Ben Agger

4.1

'I Am The Library'

Audrey Sprenger

Revolutionary Industry and Digital Colonialism

D. E. Wittkower

By What Means, By Whose Means?

Alf Rehn

Knowledge and Cultural Production in the Context of Contemporary Capitalism: A response to Wittkower

Jeremy Hunsinger

Saying Something or Having Something to Say: Attention Seeking, the Breakdown of Privacy, and the Promise of Discourse in the Blogosphere

Gloria Jacobs

“Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”: Organizing Since Katrina

Diane Harriford and Becky Thompson

Exploring the Liquid Politics of Tourism: Developing Reflexivity in Backpacker Discourse

Rebecca Jane Bennett

The War Between n+1 and The Elegant Variation, or When Production Overlooks Consumption in the Literary Political Economy

Elisabeth Chaves

Torture and Absolution: The Shadow Twin Towers of Atro/City

Cynthia Haynes

Massive Multi-Player Online Games and the Developing Political Economy of Cyberspace

Mike Kent

The McDonaldization of Higher Education?: Notes on the UK Experience

Christian Garland

Evil Bert Laden: ViRaL Texts, Community, and Collision

James J Brown Jr.

The Disintegration of Fordism and the Transformation of Black Anti-Semitism in America, 1945-2005

Mark P. Worrell

On Werner Herzog's Documentary ‘Grizzly Man‘: Psychoanalysis, Nature, and Meaning

John W. White

“Privatized” Militarism: A New Era?

Carl Boggs

The Passing of Jean Baudrillard

Robert Antonio

Slow Thoughts for Fast Times - Lies and Life: The Other Italians

Charles Lemert

A Conversation on Guns, Masculinities, and School Shootings

Jackson Katz inteviewing Douglas Kellner

Poetry: 'For Harvey Milk' and 'Comstock Correctional Upstate New York'

Becky Thompson

3.1 - Special Issue on Virginia Tech

To: Multiple Recipients: 'There is a Gunman on Campus'

Timothy W. Luke

Mediated Ritual on Academic Ground

Neal King

A Hokies' Lament: American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings

Stephen Pfohl

All the Rage: Digital Bodies and Deadly Play in the Age of the Suicide Bomber

Carolyn Guertin

Satire, Guns, and Humans: Lessons from the Nacirema

Steve Kroll-Smith and Gwen Hunnicutt

Media Spectacle and the "Massacre at Virginia Tech"

Douglas Kellner

Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao: The History of Normal Violence

Charles Lemert

Colonization and Massacres: Virginia Tech and Jamestown

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Cho, Not Che?: Positioning Blacksburg In the Political

Ben Agger

2.2 - Symposium on Animal Rights

The Killing Fields Of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, And Total Liberation

Steve Best

Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights

Carl Boggs

Symposium on The Domination of Nature and Utopia

Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit?

William Leiss

Exerpt from: Hera or Empathy (pdf)

William Leiss

William Leiss, Hera, and the Fate of Science

Hans Kellner

Regular Articles

Fast Spectacle: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina and the Contradictions of Spectacle

Kevin Gotham

Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer's 'Culture Industry' thesis in a multimedia age

Sam Caslin

The IMF in Singapore: The Staging of a City

Yasmin Ibrahim

Class Observations: 'Intimate' Technologies and the Poetics of Reality TV

Irmi Karl

Talking About Gender, Race and Class: Bringing Capitalism Back In: An Outline of a Preliminary Argument

Joan Acker

Online Democratic Deliberation in a Time of Information Abundance

Craig Bellamy

Herpes for the Information Age: Plagiarism and the Infection of Universities

Tara Brabazon

Cruising on the Left: Notes on a Genealogy of 'Left' Communication Research in the United States

Hanno Hardt

"Upgrading" Market Legitimation: Revisiting Habermas's 'Technology as Ideology' in Neoliberal Times

Eran Fisher

Europe Without Europeans

Aleš Debeljak

Urbanized Life

John Zerzan

Slow Thoughts for Fast Times

The Senator and the Philosopher: What Liberalism Might Have Been

Charles Lemert

2.1

Bicycle Messengers and Fast Capitalism: An Old School Solution to the Needs of Techno-Capitalism (Larger Download With Graphics) (Smaller Download Without Graphics)

Kevin Wehr

The Art of the Accident: Paul Virilio and Accelerated Modernity

Steve Redhead

Biotech Barbeque: A Regulatory Figuration and Policy Making

Rob Shields and Carrie Sanders

Soft Surveillence: A Growth of Mandatory Volunteerism in Collecting Personal Information—"Hey Buddy can you Spare a DNA?"

G. T. Marx

Pattern Recognition in Fast Capitalism: Calling Literary Time on the Theorists of Flux

Paul Taylor

"Second Nature": Advertising, Metaphor and the Production of Space

Shane Gunster

Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society (Larger Download With Graphics)

(Smaller Download Without Graphics)

Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey

The Disasters of War

Avery F. Gordon

Socrates in Earpods? The iPodification of Education

Tara Brabazon

The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before)

Robert Babe

The Power Elite at 50: C. Wrights Mills’ Political Sociology in Midlife Crisis

Steven P. Dandaneau

The Other Frankfurt School

Mark P. Worrell

Disagreeing Preemptive/Prophylaxis: From Philip K. Dick to Jacques Ranciere

Irving Goh

Slow Thoughts for Fast Times

Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir

Charles Lemert

1.2

The Sixties at Forty

Where in the World Are We? Elections, the Color Line, the Decline of Empire and Fireflies

Bernardine Dohrn

Killing the Field of Dreams: George W. Bush, Empire and the Politics of Misrecognition

Jeremy Varon

From Participatory Democracy to Digital Democracy

Mark Kann

Two Wars, Two Movements: Iraq in Light of Vietnam

Tom Wells

Information Technology and Participatory Democracy: Some Considerations

Dick Flacks

My Radical Dad

Thai Jones

Teaching the Sixties

Margot Fortunato Galt

Why Were There So Many Jews in SDS? Or, The Ordeal of Civility

Mark Rudd

Regular Articles

Who Controls Digital Culture?

Mark Poster

Cultural Studies in Dark Times: Public Pedagogy and the Challenge of Neoliberalism

Henry Giroux

Salvaging Democracy after Election 2004

Douglas Kellner

Public Intellectuals, Information Politics and the Manichean Moment

Dion Dennis

Virtual Economics and Twenty-First Century Leisure

T. R. Jordan

Italian Fascism between Ideology and Spectacle

Federico Caprotti

Remembrance

The Trek with Telos: A Remembrance of Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940-July 12, 2004)

Timothy W. Luke

Slow Thoughts for Fast Times

Why Mills and Not Gouldner

Charles Lemert

1.1

Speed: Through, Across, and In—The Landscapes of Capital (Larger Download)

Text-Only Version (Smaller Download)

Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, and Noah Kersey

Timescapes of the Network Society

Robert Hassan

The Mobile Phone in Everyday Life

Hannah Rippin

Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

E-Mail: Connections, Contexts, and Another Space

Terry Caesar

Scanning Fast Capitalism: Quasipolitan Order and New Social Flowmations

Timothy W. Luke

Ever Onward: The Frontier Myth and the Information Age

Jack Shuler

Politics and Self in the Age of Digital (Re)producibility

Robert W. Williams

Valuable Objects and their Differentiation in Social Space and Time

Emanuel Smikun

Commentaries

Remembering Derrida

Robert J. Antonio

Homegrown Democracy, Homegrown Democrats

Norman K. Denzin

Beyond Beltway and Bible Belt: Re-imagining the Democratic Party and the American Left

Ben Agger

Slow Thoughts for Fast Times

Niebuhr's America

Charles Lemert

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