media

In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Karl Steel examines Nicole Shukin's Animal Capital (Shukin reviews Steel in the other half). In particular, Steel looks at Shukin's biopolitical framework, and considers how that framework challenges not only our conception of what constitutes the animal, but also--and more to the bone--our conception of the capacity of fields like animal studies.

This formulation by Joseph Tabbi is being reprinted with permission from the University of Minnesota Press's remixthebook. The original online version can be found here.

Richard Schechner remembers the real-life side of interaction.

Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.

Noting that media are not only proposed to readers but also imposed on customers, Jan Baetens introduces Adorno into the debates on remediation.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young takes the outside perspective on German media studies.

From the start, the editors made it clear that the electronic book review would be about more than reviewing books.

Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North.