New Titles in 'Disruptions'

BOOK SERIES: DISRUPTIONS Edited by Paul Bowman                     This series seeks both to study and to precipitate disruptions. It publishes academic monographs that interrogate and analyse disruptions within and across such fields and disciplines as culture and society, media and technology, literature and philosophy, aesthetics and politics. Its aim is both to explore and to produce disruptions. To this end, it is therefore both interdisciplinary and antidisciplinary. It proposes that disruptions in one context or field, realm or register, are likely to emanate from another field. So interdisciplinarity is essential to such exploration and analysis, because disruptions in culture, society, politics or philosophy might derive from the disturbance caused by forces, events or transformation in media, technology, science, economics, and so on. Moreover, as much as there are relays and reciprocities, antagonisms and clashes both within and across 'fields', so the very emergence of fields, contexts, relations and practices can be understood as a consequence of disruptions. Find out more>>   Just Published Against Value in the Arts and Education Edited by Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen 'The tyranny of value, of calculability, is evident in every facet of contemporary education. This book contests that tyranny through critique and refusal. It is relentless and passionate, full of disgust. It reads like a manifesto, a call to arms. For anyone seeking to understand what we have come to and what we have lost this is the place to start – this is a serious and searing counterblast to the cruelty of numbers.'  – Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, UCL Read a sample chapter>>   Disrupting Maize Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico By Gabriela Méndez Cota 'Contamination is present in all sovereignty and identity is always necessarily transgenic. In the maize wars nationalist desire crosses biotechnical critique on its way to a posited refoundation that cannot know its limits and confuses its core. This fascinating book disrupts biological disruption itself while refusing to give in to endemic cultural moralisms. Its wager for democracy actively dislocates the compromised nostalgia of some emancipatory narratives while resisting the calculation of the future.' – Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University Read a sample chapter>>   Imprints of Revolution Visual Representations of Resistance Edited by Lisa B. Y. Calvente and Guadalupe García 'Calvente and Garcia offer a much needed theoretical and methodological contribution to Cultural Studies by bringing together scholars who reinvigorate the study of visual communication with careful and rigorous case studies. The essays in this text demonstrate the power of visual images to not only perform and enact history, but incite and inspire revolution, a necessary precursor to decolonialism.' – Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Denver Read a sample chapter>> Also in the Disruptions series:                    Our Spring 2016 Cultural Studies Catalogue is now available! The new catalogue includes a comprehensive list of our Cultural Studies titles and series. Click here to download or here to browse. All our catalogues are available here.