ABSTRACT

IEN ANG is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia…TONY BENNETT is Professor and Dean of the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia…DIPESH CHAKRABARTY is Reader and Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia… KUAN-HSING CHEN is Associate Professor at the Institute of Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan…LUKE GIBBONS is at the School of Communications of Dublin City University, Ireland…JOHN HARTLEY is Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication, Murdoch University, Western Australia…STEVE MICKLER is a Ph.D. student at the School of Humanities, Murdoch University, Western Australia, and has worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Perth… MEAGHAN MORRIS is an independent writer and cultural critic, based in Sydney, Australia…TOM O’REGAN is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia…ZOË SOFIA, a.k.a. Zoë Sofoulis, is Lecturer in Communication Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia…GRAEME TURNER is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia… McKENZIE WARK teaches in the Department of English of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia…BARRETT WATTEN is a poet and theorist and is managing editor of Representations. His books include Total Syntax, a collection of theoretical essays, and many volumes of experimental poetry, among them Progress and 1-10…PAT KIRKHAM teaches in the School of Arts, Leicester Polytechnic, UK…ALEC MCHOUL is at the School of Humanities, Murdoch University, Western Australia…MARTYN LEE teaches at Coventry Polytechnic, UK.