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Screening Economies
Futures Worth Preserving
Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation
Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
DANIEL CUONZ, SCOTT LOREN, AND
TOM CLUCAS, ANDRESSA SCHRÖDER,
JÖRG METELMANN, EDITORS
NICO VÖLKER, AND ROBERT A. WINKLER, EDITORS
DANIEL CUONZ
teaches cultural studies at the University
of St. Gallen. SCOTT LOREN
How can the paradoxical conceptual overlap of nostalgia and sustainability in cultural constructions of the present be used in order to make previously unexplored territory within the study of culture accessible? This collection of essays and artistic contributions problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves, both in relation to what they have once been and to what they aspire to become. TOM CLUCAS
lectures on new media and language studies
at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Zurich. JÖRG METELMANN
teaches culture and media studies at
the University of St. Gallen.
is a postdoctoral researcher in English
literature and culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen. ANDRESSA SCHRÖDER
is a PhD researcher in cultural
sustainability. NICO VÖLKER
is a PhD researcher in American studies
examining gentrification in twenty-first-century Brooklyn. ROBERT A. WINKLER
is a PhD researcher studying race
and whiteness in the U.S. hardcore punk subculture of the 1980s. $25.00 paper 978-3-8376-4527-9
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4122-6
D E C E M B E R 192 pages / 5.8" x 8.9" / 21 b&w illustrations
M AY 280 pages / 5.8" x 8.9"
MEDIA STUDIES
S O C I O LO G Y
C U LT U R E & T H E O RY
C U LT U R E & T H E O RY
F O R S A L E O N LY I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S , C A N A D A , M E X I C O , CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND ASIA
The relationship between economy, finance, and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdependent web of relations into an area of incomprehensible abstraction. This volume explores the ethical, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions of economic representation, addressing essential questions: What are the roles of mass and new media? How do the arts contribute to critical discourse on the global techno-economic complex? Collectively, the contributions bring theoretical debate and artistic intervention into a rich exchange.
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