http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/about A project committed to producing incisive post-colonial cultural critique. We are interested in interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies. darkmatter seeks to promote critical knowledge production from a range of contributors exploring the politics of everyday life. Editors: Ash Sharma (London UK) and Sanjay Sharma (London UK) Editorial Advisory Group: Anamik Saha (London, UK); Ben Pitcher (London, UK); Dhiraj Murthy (Cambridge, UK); Max Farrar (Leeds, UK); Sara Wajid (London, UK); Sarita Malik (London, UK); Yasmeen Narayan (London, UK)
The first themed dialogues present a set of reflective commentaries on the turbulent events surrounding the UK Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother 07 . Collectively the dialogues begin to map the complexity of race and media culture in our globalised digital world. - Editorial: Celebrity Big Brother dialogues - the global pantomime of race
- Further Journal highlights include:
- Paul Gilroy in conversationwith Max Farrar
- a round-table discussion on transnational feminism and terrorism with scholars from the US and Europe including Gargi Bhattacharya; Inderpal Grewal; Ronit Lentin and Jasbir Kaur Puar
- a poetic filmic mediation on the Coventry Ritz Cinema by Nirmal Puwar
- a review essay on the film Crash by Paul Gormley
- a review of Yinka Shonibare at the Musee de Quai Branly in Paris by Sara Wajid
Future themed issues: Race and Materialism; Desiring Otherness - Psychoanalysis and Alterity the Commons includes insightful interventions on contemporary culture and global politics
don't miss Ben Pitcher's posts on the troubled politics of whiteness; or the exiled Londoner, Ko Banerjea's 'Lynch-esque' dispatches on the traumas of everyday living in LA. 2007-05-30 |
