If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles for our publication, please contact the editors. Please included a brief summary of your background, or C.V., with your request.

The International Reception of T.S. Eliot, Continuum Press, 2007. (hardcover)

Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation, eds. R. M. Berry and Jeffery R. Di Leo, State Univ. of New York (SUNY) Press, 2008.

Jack Lynch, The English Language: A User’s Guide, Focus Publishing/R Pullins Co., Newburyport, MA, 2008. (Advanced copy)

Realities and Remediations: The Limits of Representation in Film, eds. Elizabeth Wells and Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2007. (hardcover)

Lyle Massey, Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (hardcover)

Brad Prager, The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth, Wallflower Press, London and New York City, 2007.

Daniel Frampton, Filmosophy, Wallflower Press, London and New York City, 2006

The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film, eds. Graeme Harper and Rob Stone, Wallflower Press, London and New York City, 2007.

Clara E. Rodríguez, Heroes, Lovers and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood, Oxford University Press, 2004.

The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture, eds. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas, Wallflower Press, London and New York City, 2007.

Irish Films, Global Cinema, eds. Martin McLoone and Kevin Rockett, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007. (hardcover)

On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections, Provocations, ed. Philip Coleman, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007. (hardcover)

Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear, eds. Kate Hebblethwaite and Elizabeth McCarthy, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007. (hardcover)

View the other titles here.

Other Voices 1.1 — Reading in the Ruins

Other Voices 1.2 — Image (Con) Text

Other Voices 1.3 — Anchoring Analysis (Psychoanalysis and Culture)

Other Voices 2.1 — On Genocide

Other Voices 2.2 — Discrete Objects (Open Issue)

Other Voices 2.3 — Engagements (Open Issue)

Other Voices 3.1 — Recycling Culture

A complete listing of archived issues can be found here.

Don’t forget we are always seeking qualified peer reviewers and proposals for special issues. Feel free to contact us at editors AT othervoices.org.

Jean-Michael Rabaté, Given: 1° Art 2° Crime, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.

Johanna Drucker, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005.

Gregg Lambert, Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari, Continuum, 2007 (hardcover).

Robert A. Rushing, Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture, New York: Other Press, 2007.

Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar in the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism, Univ. of California Press, 2007 (hardcover).

Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Duke UP, 2006.

Residual Media, Charles R. Acland ed., Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Carla Yanni, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect In and Beyond Psychoanalysis, Karyn Ball ed., New York: Other Press, 2007.

Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness, Duke UP, 2006.

Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, Duke UP, 2006.

Alison Ross, The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, Stanford UP, 2007.

Richard Terdiman, Body Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict, Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.

Ernst Bloch, Traces, trans. Anthony A. Nassar, Stanford UP, 2006.

Manual deLanda, A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity, Continuum, 2006 (hardcover).

Susan Gubar, Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, Indiana UP, 2003.

John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, Indiana UP, 2006.

Hent De Vries, Minimal Theologies, Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.

Simon Cottle, Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies, Open University Press, 2006.

Locating Memory: Photographic Arts, eds. Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Indiana UP, 2006.

Dimple Godiwala, Queer Mythologies: The Original Stageplays of Pam Gems, Intellect Books, 2006.

Johnathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia eds., The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change, Berghahn Books/Center for Holocaust Studies at the Univ. of Vermont, 2006 (hardcover).

Peter-Uwe Hohendahl and Jaimey Fisher eds., Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects, Berghahn Books, 2001.

Simon Cottle, Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies, Open University Press, 2006.

Jill Bennett, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art, Stanford Univ. Press, 2005.

Gyanendra Pandey, Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories, Stanford Univ. Press, 2005.

Eric Michaud, The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, Stanford Univ. Press, 2004.

Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixal Borderspace, forward Judith Bulter, introduction Griselda Pollack, afterword Brian Massumi (ed.), Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Rex Butler, Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory, Continuum, 2005.

Frank Stella, Working Space (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1983-84), Harvard Univ. Press, 2003.

W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Deliberate Speed: The Origins of Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Harvard University Press, 1999/2002.

…And don’t forget to check back or visit Other Voices: Books Received for new titles.

Sincerely,

Vance Bell
Editor-in-Chief

The editors and staff of Other Voices are happy to announce the release of our latest issue:

Contents:

Introduction
Tina Kendall and Kristin Koster

Articles:

Garbage and Recycling: From Literary Theme to Mode of Production
Walter Moser

Recycling recycling, or plus ça change…
Marilyn Randall

Stories that Objects Might Live to Tell: The ‘Hand-Me-Down Narrative’ in Film
David Scott Diffrient

Interviews:

Feasting on Technologies of Recycling in the Jurassic: Repositories of Knowledge and the Desire for Minutiae and Exegesis, with the true account of a conversation with the Museum of Jurassic Technology’s progenitor and prognosticator, David Wilson.
Jeanne Scheper

Handmade, Repetition, Narrative: An Interview with Robin Hill
Ron Janowich

Commentaries:

“Give Us the Dumpsters -Or- Give Us Life”: Res Derilictae and the Trash of Free Trade
Daniel Lang

Supermovables: The Fate of Unreal Estate, or a Treatise on the Social Problem Regarding Illegal File-Sharing
Piratebureau

Multimedia:

The Manual of Lost Ideas
Antoinette LaFarge and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry

Reviews:

The Uncanny
Curtis Bowman
Review of Nicolas Royle, The Uncanny

Capitalist Horrors
Steffen Hantke
Review of Annalee Newitz, Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

A Critical Humanist among the Professional Experts
Bob van der Linden
Review of Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays and Edward Said: The Last Interview, a documentary by Mike Dibb

Foucault among the Humanists
Corey McCall
Review of Eric Paras, Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge

Vigliant Memory
Michael Maidan
Review of R. Cliford Spargo, Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust and the Unjust Death

Critical Interventions:? Reclaiming the Virtual
Paul A. Youngman
Review of Mark Nunes, Cyberspaces of Everyday Life

History, Herstory: How Writers Make the World
Paul Hansom
Review of A.S. Byatt, On Stories and Histories: Selected Essays

Rethinking Culture
Christine Boyko-Head
Review of Michael Dunning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

Why ‘Live’?
Philip Auslander
Review of Philip Auslander, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

NOTE: The deadline has been extended to 7/15/07.

How does art respond to the tremendous pace of the world’s violence? More than merely sublimating or ameliorating trauma, art documents the physical and psychological damage wreaked by social, political, cultural or personal violence. Damaged life yields a damaged art, the distortions of which are crucial in capturing the specific ramifications of violence. Art in the face of war must suffer this distortion; consider the writings of Levi, Antelme, Celan, Beckett, and O’Brien, among many others. The documentary of aesthetic violence runs through work as various as art on feminism, racism, and ranges from group to personal violence.

Yet there also has been a subgroup of artists that integrate aspects of violence into their own oeuvre, sometimes to unearth or expose its taboo and other times to dissipate it or to direct it to various ends. In this trend consider Pound, Bataille, Artaud, Jünger, Celine, Gide, Genet through to Viennese Actionism, performance artist Bob Flanagan, writer Kathy Acker, punk and heavy metal music, and violent cinema. Critics have generally placed the former group of writers as ethical exemplars while the latter are known for crossing or destroying ethical boundaries. But what is the assumed status of the ethical exemplar, and does it leave the condition of aesthetic violence still uncritically suspended despite its evocation?

We seek essays that address the invocation of aesthetic violence of the past century. Some overall questions we wish to address include:? How does aesthetic violence relate to ethics? How is aesthetic violence experienced? At what point does violence inhibit any aesthetic experience? How might aesthetic violence relate to a confrontation with political violence? How does aesthetic violence operate as a critique of violence?

We are also interested specifically in contributions that articulate a sense of the effect of violent assault upon the art object or viewer/reader. Too often critical discourses on violence adopt a moralizing tone, dismissing violence without close examination of its specific physical, psychological and aesthetic effects. More detailed inquiry may allow us to ask, for instance, on what possible grounds could one establish a phenomenology of aesthetic violence? What would be its terms and conditions, its ethical position? To what degree is violence inherent in our categories of knowledge, aesthetic techniques or modes of representation? Some general topics might include:

• war aesthetics
• art and racist violence
• art and feminism
• art and rituals involving violence
• art and violence of political resistance
• music and violence
• the beautiful and the ugly
• ethics of violent art from the position of the artist or the viewer
• violence and technique: as a way of directing, focusing, or de-focusing
• attention on specific forms or instances of historic or personal violence
• violence and pleasure in art
• philosophies of modernity and violence (Nietzsche, Sorel, Benjamin, Adorno, Lenin, Marxism, Mao, Colonialism, Fanon, Situationism, Black liberation movements, third world/global struggles)

We invite papers from all theoretical perspective and disciplines, including, but not limited to: theoretical and philosophical essays, comparative case studies, historical and cultural interpretations, and psychological and psychoanalytical investigations.

We are interested in articles (4000-9000 words), intellectual commentaries (3000-5000 words), review essays (2000-4000 words) and scholarly book reviews (1500-2500 words). Non-traditional submissions, such as lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations, art work, interviews and other materials, will also be considered.

Please send completed submissions by email attachment to submissions@othervoices.org no later than July 15, 2007.

Please direct general inquires to both:

Vance Bell, editor-in-chief (vbell@othervoices.org)

Joshua Schuster, editor (jnschust@english.upenn.edu)

Please feel free to consult our current list of books received:

http://www.othervoices.org/books.php

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books for our publication, please contact us at reviews@othervoices.org with the title and a brief statement of your qualifications as a reviewer.

Single volume reviews should be between 1500 and 3000 words. Review essays or omnibus reviews covering multiple volumes should run between 2250 and 4000 words.

Please see our notes for contributors (http://www.othervoices.org/sub.php) for style sheet details.

Completed review should be forwarded as email attachments in either MS Word, .rtf, or WordPerfect formats.