Representing Affects and Non-Representational Media Theory

A review of Dan Fleming and Damion Sturm's Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits (Continuum, 2011)

Towards an Archaeology of 'Know-How'

This article explores the relation between experience and ‘know-how’ as a ‘tacit’ form of knowledge and the role of enthusiasm in the production of ‘know-how’, and engages with the problem of the transmission of ‘know how’. Why is the transmission of ‘know-how’ a problem? If ‘know-how’ is a tacit form of knowledge, then there are difficulties imagining how it is transmitted through the media without becoming an ‘explicit’ form of knowledge.The author turns his attention to the humble ‘how to’ article, as its primary purpose is the transmission of ‘know-how’. He teases out the way ‘know-how’ is developed through experience and then suggests that instead of transmitting ‘know-how’ itself, the ‘how to’ article presents the conditions of experience through which a reader or viewer can develop ‘know-how’

Where is the Law in ‘Unlawful Combatant’?: Resisting the Refrain of the Right-eous

The rhythms of war and popular culture intermingle, amplify each other and become expressive. At the leading edge of the US military’s war machine assemblage, as the nation of Iraq is deterritorialised from the despotic signifier ‘Saddam Hussein’, the soldiers’ music consolidates a milieu of the battlefield. It also consolidates a space-time of the here-now with something less horrific. The popular music refrain produces a home away from home. In their patriotism, many of these singer–soldiers see a religious act. When someone is saying ‘God is on our side’ they are no longer talking about the nation-based context for which, whatever the rules of war might be, such rules are relevant. They’re talking about a Holy War. It has different rules. How to hold them to any actual account is the difficulty we seek to explore here

Working with Amateur Labour: Between Culture and Economy

An introduction to the 'Amateur Economies' special issue of CSR 19.1, with an overview of the themes and articles within

Digital news report: Australia 2015

This report gives a clear picture of how the Australian news consumer compares to eleven other countries surveyed in 2015: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, USA and urban Brazil. The Digital News Report: Australia is part of a global survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Further in-depth analysis of Australian digital news consumption has been conducted and published by the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra

Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 56, No. 01

Theology News & Notes was a theological journal published by Fuller Theological Seminary from 1954 through 2014.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/tnn/1164/thumbnail.jp

An alternative parity formula for agriculture

The present parity price formula provides the parity ratio-that is, the ratio between the prices received and the prices paid by farmers. It also provides parity prices for individual farm products-prices that would give farm products the same purchasing power per unit which they had in an earlier base period. The parity ratio-the ratio between the prices received and the prices paid by farmers-is regarded by many people as a measure of the economic status of agriculture.1 When the parity ratio is 81, for example, that ratio is regarded as indicating that the prices received by farmers are too low; some regard a parity ratio of 81 as indicating that the prices of farm products are 19 percent too low. The same sort of opinion is held concerning parity prices for individual farm products. When the prices received by farmers for corn are only 55 percent of the parity price of corn, this is generally believed to indicate that corn prices are too low; some believe that it indicates that corn prices are 45 percent too low. Certain percentages of the parity prices for some farm products are used for bases for the price support operation of the Commodity Credit Corporation for those products. These operations run into billions of dollars. The purpose of this report is to examine the parity formula, see how well suited it is for these purposes and determine whether any more appropriate formula might be developed