Ritalin®: Panic in the USA

 Ritalin® is a popular pharmaceutical. It keeps young people quiet and focused, but attracts intense opprobrium. Beginning with an account of the dimensions of Ritalin®’s use in the United States and controversies surrounding it, this article outlines how this might be understood in moral-panic terms and examines the role of the psy-function and various conflicts of interest, coverage in popular culture, and governmental responses. In many cases, progressive academics and activists have criticised moral panics, recuperating moral-panic folk devils as semiotic guerrillas struggling against authority. In this instance, however, the scene is too complex and multifaceted for that heroisation. There are no good guys; there is lots of panic, from all political-economic quarters. Some of it is justified—and none of it is straightforward

Althusser, Foucault, and the Subject of Civility

This paper seeks to paint a picture of how discernible links between Althusser and Foucault can assist us to theorise the life of cultural subjects inside established and emergent liberal-capitalist states. Althusser\u27s querying of a humanistic foundation to political philosophy and the social contract is connected to Foucault\u27s contention that modernity invented the subject as a centre of inquiry and that centre became the site constructing obedient citizens

Cybertarian flexibility - when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into air

Cybertarian flexibility - when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into ai

Stuart Hall

The collection is sure to be a vital resource for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates seeking authoritative overviews of key concepts and people in communication and critical cultural studies

Shower scene from HQ

This essay traces a 1990s image and a 21st–century confession in the context of the legal trajectory of former athlete Andrew Ettingshausen’s genitals and his body as a commodity. It does so in the light of debates about contemporary masculinity and sports. Throughout, we shall be stalked by the image of his penis, its representation in a magazine, subsequent evaluations by courts of law —and the need to protect and develop Ettingshausen’s marketability

WikiLeaks, the state, and middle-aged media

WikiLeaks, the state, and middle-aged medi

Television beyond itself in Latin America

Television in Latin America continues to be an important medium for the population; politics, history, the market, and especially the culture and its audiences keep television alive. In spite of the fact that millennials enjoy television from a variety of screens, television contents remain as a reference in everybody´s audiovisual experiences. With changes in its reception, production, programming, and business models, television “exploits”, instead of disappearing, amplifying itself into the televisual, keeping itself as a multicultural experience, and as a unique opportunity for its audiences’ reinvention of themselves