We are very pleased to introduce the launch of a new independent online journal, darkmatter.
The first themed dialogues present a set of reflective commentaries on the turbulent events surrounding the UK Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother 07. Collectively the dialogues begin to map the complexity of race and media culture in our globalised digital world.
Editorial: Celebrity Big Brother dialogues - the global pantomime of raceFurther Journal highlights include: Paul Gilroy in conversation with Max Farrar; a round-table discussion on transnational feminism and terrorism with scholars from the US and Europe including Gargi Bhattacharya; Inderpal Grewal; Ronit Lentin and Jasbir Kaur Puar; a poetic filmic mediation on the Coventry Ritz Cinema by Nirmal Puwar; a review essay on the film Crash by Paul Gormley; a review of Yinka Shonibare at the Musee de Quai Branly in Paris by Sara Wajid.
Future themed issues: Race and Materialism; Desiring Otherness - Psychoanalysis and Alterity
the Commons includes insightful interventions on contemporary culture and global politics - don’t miss Ben Pitcher’s posts on the troubled politics of whiteness; or the exiled Londoner, Ko Banerjea’s ‘Lynch-esque’ dispatches on the traumas of everyday living in LA.
darkmatter editors (ash sharma and sanjay sharma)
www.darkmatter101.orgdarkmatter journal is committed to producing incisive post-colonial cultural critique. We are interested in interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies. darkmatter seeks to promote critical knowledge production from a range of contributors exploring the politics of everyday life.