Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press. 2009. 249 p. ISBN: 1-904710-90-5This volume contains papers presented at the First Global Conference – Culture, Politics, Ethics held in Salzburg, Austria, March 16th through the 18th, 2009. The conference succeeded in attracting participants with a broad range of cultural and academic experiences to participate in discussions and presentations intending to stretch and/or dissolve disciplinary boundaries. As could be expected from the opaque title of the conference, the subjects presented for discussion were reflective of the diversity of the participants’ disciplines. Through the course of the conference, the disciplines represented by the presenters emerged and included human rights law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, architecture, art history, literature, religious studies, political science, and international relations. Such variety confirmed the genuine interdisciplinary nature of the conference. This was perhaps due to the attractive connotative weight of the three word title of the conference, combined with the even more enticing subtitle, Aesthetics, Performance, Oppression, Resistance.Table of contentsIntroductionCulture, Representation, PoliticsBaltimore as World and Representation: The Wire and the Dispossession of the American City
Camping Queens: Humour as Social Critique in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertEthics, Politics, ThinkingHow an Autonomic ‘Episteme’ Can Explain Ethical Contradictions in Cultural Works and Systems of the U.S.
The Ethics of the Playing Subject
Thinking Difference: Nietzsche and Adorno on the Ethics of ThinkingAesthetics, Culture, PoliticsThe Tripartite Relationship between Ideology, the Architectural Avant-garde and Capitalism: Rethinking the Discourse of Manfredo Tafuri
Politicisation of Form in Western Art in the 20th Century: Figuration versus Abstraction
The Social Ethics of Modern Aesthetics
Ideology in Media Language: Hegemonic Discourse or Multiple Discourses?Culture, Politics, and MemoryEthics of Commemoration: Religious Sentiment in Secular SocietyCulture, Representation and IdentitiesCultural Identity and Globalization
Youth, Identity, and Popular Culture: Local Taiwanese Popular Culture And the Meaning Behind the PerformanceCultural Work and Dis/enchantmentAffective Listening
Making Water Public
Beyond Celebration: Australian Indigenous Festivals, Politics and EthicsCultural Work and Dis/enchantmentActuvirtualized Activity and Passivity in the Political Sphere
How Should a Liberal Government Accommodate Disadvantaged Cultural Minorities?Ethics, Politics, CultureEpisodic Ethics, Post-modern Culture and the Sources of the Self
Performing Politics between Rancière and Foucault: Culture, Biopower and Political Aesthetics
