Back Issues: Periodicals and the Formation of Critical and Cultural Theory in Canada

195 Pages·2019·4.26 MB·English

by  Gary Genosko

Back Issues
Critical Perspectives on Theory,
Culture and Politics
CriticalPerspectivesonTheory,CultureandPoliticsisaninterdisciplinaryseries,devel-
opedinpartnershipwiththeCentreforCriticalandCulturalTheory,whichisbasedinthe
SchoolofEnglish,CommunicationandPhilosophyatCardiffUniversity,UK.Theseries
focuses on innovative research produced at the interface between critical theory and
cultural studies. In recent years much work in cultural studies has increasingly moved
awayfromdirectlycritical-theoreticalconcerns.Oneoftheaimsofthisseriesistofoster
a renewed dialogue between cultural studies and critical and cultural theory in its rich,
multipledimensions.
SeriesEditors
GlennJordan,VisitingResearchFellow,CardiffSchoolofJournalism,Mediaand
CulturalStudies,CardiffUniversity.FormerDirectorofButetownHistory&Arts
Centre
LaurentMilesi,ReaderinEnglish,CommunicationandPhilosophyandChairofthe
CentreforCriticalandCulturalTheory,CardiffUniversity
RadhikaMohanram,ProfessorofEnglishandCriticalandCulturalTheory,Cardiff
University
ChrisMüller,DepartmentofMedia,Music,Communication&CulturalStudies,Mac-
quarieUniversity
ChrisWeedon,ProfessorEmeritaandHonoraryChair,CentreforCriticalandCultu-
ralTheory,CardiffUniversity
TitlesintheSeries
CultureControlCritique:AllegoriesofReadingthePresent,FridaBeckman
Prometheanism:Technology,DigitalCultureandHumanObsolescence,GüntherAnders
andChristopherJohnMüller,translatedbyChristopherJohnMüller
CreoleintheArchive:Imagery,PresenceandtheLocationoftheCaribbeanFigure,
RoshiniKempadoo
TheAttentionEconomy:Labour,Time,andPowerinCognitiveCapitalism,ClaudioCelis
PerformativeContradictionandtheRomanianRevolution,JolanBogdan
ChineseSubjectivitiesandtheBeijingOlympics,GladysPakLeiChong
TheExtremeinContemporaryCulture:StatesofVulnerability,PramodK.Nayar
Superpositions:LaruelleandtheHumanities,editedbyRoccoGangleandJuliusGreve
CredoCreditCrisis:SpeculationsonFaithandMoney,editedbyLaurentMilesi,Christo-
pherJohnMüllerandAidanTynan
MaterialitiesofSexinaTimeofHIV:ThePromiseofVaginalMicrobicides,Annette-
CarinavanderZaag
FromSharedLifetoCo-ResistanceinHistoricPalestine,MarceloSvirskyandRonnen
Ben-Arie
AffectiveConnections:TowardsaNewMaterialistPoliticsofSympathy,DorotaGolańska
Homemaking:RadicalNostalgiaandtheConstructionofaSouthAsianDiaspora,Anin-
dyaRaychaudhuri
HypermodernityandVisuality,PeterR.Sedgwick
PartitionsandTheirAfterlives:Violence,Memories,Living,editedbyRadhikaMohan-
ramandAnindyaRaychaudhuri
BackIssues:PeriodicalsandtheFormationofCriticalandCulturalTheoryinCanada,
GaryGenosko,withKristinaMarcellus
ContestedBorders:QueerPoliticsandCulturalTranslationinContemporaryFranco-
phoneWritingfromtheMaghreb,WilliamJ.Spurlin(forthcoming)

Back Issues
Periodicals and the Formation of Critical
and Cultural Theory in Canada
Gary Genosko, with Kristina Marcellus
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Names:Genosko,Gary,author.|Marcellus,Kristina,author.
Title:Backissues:periodicalsandtheformationofcriticalandculturaltheoryinCanada/Gary
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Description:London;NewYork:Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,[2019]|Series:Critical
perspectivesontheory,cultureandpolitics|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers:LCCN2019007964(print)|LCCN2019017434(ebook)|ISBN9781786611963(elec-
tronic)|ISBN9781786611956(cloth:alk.paper)
Subjects:LCSH:Criticaltheory—Canada—History—20thcentury.|Criticaltheory—United
States—History—20thcentury.|Culture—Philosophy—History—20thcentury.|Telos(New
York,N.Y.)—History—20thcentury.|Canadianjournalofpoliticalandsocialtheory—Histo-
ry—20thcentury.|Criticaltheory—Periodicals—History—20thcentury.|Canada—Intellectual
life—20thcentury.|UnitedStates—Intellectuallife—20thcentury.
Classification:LCCHM480(ebook)|LCCHM480,G462019(print)|DDC306.0971/0904—dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Waterloo:CradleofCanadianTelos 21
2 Toronto:CrucibleofTelosGroups 31
3 Vancouver:InvasionoftheTelosians 57
4 Tokyo–NewYork–Toronto:TransversalTelosian 69
5 Folded:RequiemsfortheDeceased,Defunct,andDisbanded 83
6 AcrossDesks,Borders,andLanguages:CJPST,MontréalTelos,
andBlameCanadaSyndrome 103
7 AMagazineintheMagazine:TheOtherExplorations 121
8 FromtheSupplementtothePeripheral:McLuhan’sDEW-Line
Newsletter 137
Conclusion 153
References 167
Index 177
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