Edition 2009 Issue 4

Editorials

• The critical and its anchorage into the social. An introduction to the 2009 winter issue of Politics and Culture

Reviews

• Review: Defending critique and criticizing its defenders

• Review: Modes of Spectating

• Review: Screening sex

• Review: Political representation

• Review: Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts. Representations of Self and Other

• Review: Social Philosophy after Adorno

Articles

• "Going down to South Park gonna learn something today". On popular culture as critical pleasure and pedagogical discourse

• Critical thinking across contexts

• The shadow of cultural criticism

• The 'chain of equivalence'. Cultural studies and Laclau & Mouffe's discourse theory

• Macht Kaputt Was Euch Kaputt Macht: On the history and the meaning of the Black Block

• When Art Becomes Critical Practice: The Village of Arts and Humanities

• Post feminism in popular culture: A potential for critical resistance?

• Persecution and the Art of Critique: Leo Strauss between Secularism and Religion