Edition 2009 Issue 4

Editorials

• The critical and its anchorage into the social. An introduction to the 2009 winter issue of Politics and Culture by Nico Carpentier

Reviews

• Review: Defending critique and criticizing its defenders by Tina Askanius

• Review: Modes of Spectating by Joke Beyl

• Review: Screening sex by Frederik Dhaenens

• Review: Political representation by Peter Csigo

• Review: Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts. Representations of Self and Other by Paul C. Bott

• Review: Social Philosophy after Adorno by David Brian Howard

Articles

• "Going down to South Park gonna learn something today". On popular culture as critical pleasure and pedagogical discourse by Sebastian Nestler

• Critical thinking across contexts by Daniel Ashton

• The shadow of cultural criticism by Theo Jung

• The 'chain of equivalence'. Cultural studies and Laclau & Mouffe's discourse theory by Rob Leurs

• Macht Kaputt Was Euch Kaputt Macht: On the history and the meaning of the Black Block by Sina Rahmani

• When Art Becomes Critical Practice: The Village of Arts and Humanities by Heather Davis

• Post feminism in popular culture: A potential for critical resistance? by Fien Adriaens

• Persecution and the Art of Critique: Leo Strauss between Secularism and Religion by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft