What is Cultural Studies!? Oh, we know all about Stuart Hall and his landmark work and we are hip to the tune of Marshall Blonsky, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and John Berger. But what will Cultural Studies look like AFTER AI, AFTER COVID, AFTER the next new wave of next-generation developments in computer science. One might think: "The algorithms will write future essays." But that means tenure for algorithms? Surely not! In this collection you will find essays on Disney, video games, fashion photography, and more-the traditional fodder of cultural studies; but you will also find deep meditations on memes, Instagram, social media, the border, Mexico, and more-not always the domain of Cultural Studies as an institution (hence the caps). Sit back and get ready to read some of the more provocative musings on both sides of the Atlantic by up-and-coming stars of Ethnic Studies, Literature, Linguistics, and more.Contributors include: Frederick Luis Aldama -- Brian Frastaci -- Federico Tarquini -- Antonio Rafele -- Tito Vagni -- Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz -- Kristal Bivona -- Luca Acquarelli -- William Anthony Nericcio -- Katie Waltman -- Massimo Cerulo -- Lorenzo Bruni -- Alberto Abruzzese - Jennifer Carter -- Ralph Clare -- Nello Barile -- Katlin Marisol Sweeney -- Bonnie Opliger -- Matteo Treleani -- Vanni Codeluppi -- Guerino Bovalino -- Agnese Pastorino -- Carlos Kelly -- and Antonio Rafele.Published by Hyperbole Books, A San Diego State University Press Imprint.

Cultural Studies in the Digital Age: An Anthology of 21st Century Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and Findings

Antonio Rafele

William Anthony Nericcio

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hyperbole Books, an Imprint of San Diego State University Press

Advance word on REPRESENTATIONS OF FASHION The rest of us interpreters of culture might as well lay pens to rest. Antonio Rafele's rapid injection in the arm spirals us down through rabbit holes where we glimpse with penetrating insight projections of our urban-made psychic selves. As if lucid dreaming, we come to understand how authors such as Poe, Leopardi, and García Márquez offer pit-stops in our otherwise impossibly fast-forward moving, Ritalin-induced life filled to the brim with TV, internet, and videogames. We can reach through this illusion, but choose instead to buy into the discontinuities of fashion that never quite satiate our existential emptiness. Not since Baudrillard, Barthes, McLuhan, and the Wachowski Bros has such a mind come along who can zip open reality to show with such precision the specular and spectacular nature of our existence...Dare if you will to step into this daydream. FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA | Arts &amp; Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University "In this provocative and pathbreaking book, Rafele shows us how a mediological approach can radically and productively reframe our understanding of modernist subjectivity. His lyrical meditations on the works of Simmel and Benjamin reveal the extent to which 20th century notions of subjectivity must be understood in relation to 19nth-century concepts of the metropolis and the technology of photography. If you've ever wondered what the 'New' in New Media Studies might actually look like, you'll find a compelling example in this brilliantly-conceived and well-executed study." RYAN SCHNEIDER | Associate Professor &amp; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English and Affiliated Faculty, Program in American Studies, Purdue University

Representations of Fashion: The Metropolis and Mediological Reflection between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries (Bi Sheng/Juan Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series)

Hyperbole Books, a San Diego State University Press imprint

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Cultural Studies in the Digital Age: An Anthology of 21st Century Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and Findings

Representations of Fashion: The Metropolis and Mediological Reflection between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries (Bi Sheng/Juan Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series)