In Mitchell's startling analysis, cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with 'faith-based' foreign and domestic policies. B…
Culture and contestation in the new century
Annotation: A series of essays by internationally known artists, scholars, and critics in the growing field of cultural theory, Culture and Contestation in the New Century examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emp…
Artists and artistic production in ancient Greece
Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads', this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthro…
