Author: Aidan Tynan File Type: pdf Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, I believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, it believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings together some of the most important contemporary voices in philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism. **Review Credo Credit Crisis provides a timely reminder that concepts such as debt, credit, interest, speculation and money are never just strictly economic phenomenon but abound in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. This brilliant volume shows how the dimension of religion is indispensable to understand as well to overcome our current economic crisis. (Ole Bjerg, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School) Credo Credit Crisis is an important intervention in the wake of the 2008 global recession. We desperately need a better understanding of the deep connections between money and faith, or religion and political economy. The editors have assembled an excellent group of contributors to tackle this urgent topic highly recommended! (Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Central Arkansas) Mining this rich semantic seam, these essays offer profound insights into the fiduciary logics that drive - and sometimes disrupt - the movements of money and markets. The authors bring the humanities best traditions of speculative thought into contact with speculative times past, present, and future, reimagining political economy through bold experiments in politico-economic theology. (Paul Crosthwaite, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh) About the Author Laurent Milesi is a Tenured Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and former Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Christopher Muller is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. Aidan Tynan is a Lecturer in the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy. He is the author of Deleuzes Literary Clinic Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (2012). Contributors Richard Dienst, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Nicky Marsh, Professor of English, University of Southampton Arthur Bradley, Reader, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University Philip Goodchild, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Nottingham University Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School Hollis Phelps, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Mount Olive Benjamin Noys, Reader in English, University of Chichester Joshua Ramey, Assistant Professor, Grinnell College Indradeep Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College Josh Robinson, Lecturer, Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University Peter Sedgwick, Reader, Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University Bernard Stiegler, Founder of Institut de recherche et dinnovation (IRI), Centre Georges-Pompidou, Visiting Professor Goldsmiths

Author: Helen Hester File Type: pdf Fat studies, which has roots in fat activism, emerges as a response to acontemporary cultural landscape that is openly hostile towards fat people andtheir perceived social and aesthetic transgressions. This book builds on a deepadmiration for this discipline and examines the relationship between fat, sexand sexuality. It follows in the wake of key texts including The Fat StudiesReader (eds. Rothblum and Solovay, 2009), Deborah Luptons Fat (2012), and theacademic journal Fat Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society which have broken new ground in the debates around fat embodiment. Theirinsights encompass issues such as health and the medicalization of body mass,cultural geographies of weight and size, and fatness and social justice. Thediscipline has been ahead of the curve, too, in understanding how intersectingforms of oppression impact embodiment. It has consistently demonstrated acommitment to better understanding the ways in which factors such as class,gender, race, age, ability, ethnicity, and sexuality can inform one another andshape the lived realities of fat people. Fat Sex New Directions in Theory andActivism owes a debt to this activism infused scholarship, and seeks to draw onthe strengths of the tradition in order to make a contribution to the field.

Author: Jonas Larsen File Type: epub Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography as we know it. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typical, vernacular, everyday practices the development of the family photo album from a physical object in the living room to a digital practice on the Internet the use of mobile phones in everyday life photo communities on the Internet photo booth photography studio photography and fine arts appropriation of amateur photography. They explore how this media convergence transforms the media ecology the networks, objects, performances, meanings and circulations of vernacular photography, as we research it through ordinary peoples use of such new cameras and interactive Internet spaces as part of their everyday lives. **

Author: Shahzad Bashir File Type: pdf Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives.