Thats classified: class politics and adolescence in twin peaks

Twin Peaks arguably paved the way for the television programmes currently popular with adolescent audiences, like The OC and Veronica Mars and, in it, many of the issues and representational strategies in those later programmes have their earlier manifestation. Specifically, the Twin Peaks plotline evinces a set of cultural anxieties about class-difference. Twin Peaks creates a cultural microcosm of American society that is paradoxically writ large by the limited parameters of an isolated community. Within a constricted space, characters are depicted as both individuals and as archetypes of a class location.<br /

Loss of control defence-Fit for purpose?

This article examines the case law on the loss of control defence and considers whether the interpretation of the defence has been too conservative so that the defence is barely available as a defence to murder

Book Review: Music, Sound, and Multimedia, From the Live to the Virtual

A 3000 word review of a series of ten academic papers on Music Sound and Multimedia, compiled into a single edited volum

T-Duality and Conformal Invariance at Two Loops

We show that the conformal invariance conditions for a general sigma-model with torsion are invariant under T-duality through two loops.Comment: 21 pages. Uses RevTex. Revised Version with extra references and typos correcte

Putting library content into Facebook

Copyright @ 2013 CILIPCIG. This material is posted on this site with the permission of the publisher.At Brunel University Library, we maintain a keen watch on technology trends and have been using social media since 2009. Our Twitter account1, set up June 2009, has 1277 followers as of February 2013, and we average 2.4 tweets a day. Our Facebook page2 was set up in October 2009 and now has 2424 likes. With social media’s focus being on communication and interaction, both sites are monitored constantly so that they are not simply streams for pushing news and updates, but places for conversations and debate

Animating grandma : the indices of age and agency in contemporary children

Analysis of three animated children\u27s films, each with heroic grandmothers motivating their plotlines, suggests a shift in the representational politics mediating older women to child audiences. The films function as critiques, reflections, and mechanisms of contemporary capitalism\u27s available sociocultural locations for older women, modelled through varying degrees of subversive performance. Interrogating the agency potential of housework, nurture and extreme sports, this article assesses the role and function of the &ldquo;Granny trope&rdquo; in contemporary children\u27s media.<br /

Narrative environments: how do they matter?

The significance and possible senses of the phrase 'narrative environment' are explored. It is argued that 'narrative environment' is not only polysemous but also paradoxical; not only representational but also performative; and not just performatively repetitive but also reflexive and constitutive. As such, it is useful for understanding the world of the early 21st century. Thus, while the phrase narrative environment can be used to denote highly capitalised, highly regulated corporate forms, i.e. "brandscapes", it can also be understood as a metaphor for the emerging reflexive knowledge-work-places in the ouroboric, paradoxical economies of the 21st century. Narrative environments are the media and the materialities through which we come to comprehend that world and to act in those economies. Narrative environments are therefore, sophistically, performative-representative both of the corporate dominance of life worlds and of the undoing of that dominance, through the iterative responses to the paradoxical injunction: "learn to live"