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Rich Cante Dave Boothroyd (2006) Culture on Drugs: Narco-Cultural Studies of High Modernity. Manchester: Manchester University Press. April 2008
Kirsty Robertson Ned Rossiter (2006) Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. April 2008
Meredith Jones Bernadette Wegenstein (2006) Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory. Cambridge and London: MIT Press. April 2008
Jeremy Valentine William E. Connolly (2005) Pluralism. Durham and London: Duke University Press. October 2007
Ashley Smith Steve Dixon (2007) Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theatre, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. October 2007
Claire Burrows Sudesh Mishra (2006) Diaspora Criticism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. October 2007
Adam Bryx Charles R. Acland (ed.) (2007) Residual Media.Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. August 2007
Gabriela Méndez Cota Krzysztof Ziarek (2004) The Force of Art. Stanford: Stanford University Press. June 2007
Gregory J. Seigworth Peter Hallward (2006) Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation. London and New York: Verso. June 2007
Paul Bowman Benjamin Arditi (2007) Politics on the Edges of Liberalism: Difference, Populism, Revolution, Agitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. May 2007
Federica Frabetti Mark Poster (2006) Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. Durham and London: Duke University Press. April 2007
Matt Hills Lawrence Grossberg (2005) Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America?s Future. Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers. December 2006
Edward Scheer Marquard Smith (ed.) (2005) Stelarc: The Monograph. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. December 2006
Gary Walton Birchall, Clare (2006) Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip. London and New York: Berg. December 2006
Robert Eaglestone Timothy Clark (2005) The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. September 2006
Paul Bowman Slavoj ?i?ek (2005) Interrogating the Real. Edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens. London and New York: Continuum. March 2006
Karyn Ball Tom Cohen (2005) Hitchcock?s Cryptonomies. Volume 1: Secret Agents; Volume II: War Machines. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. March 2006
Paolo Gerbaudo Annemarie Chandler and Norie Neumark (eds) (2005) At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. March 2006
Lasse Thomassen Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman (2005) Derrida: Screenplay and Essays on the Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. March 2006
Sean Sayers Jacques Rancière (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. London and New York: Continuum. October 2005
Catharina Landström Dianne Chisholm (2004) Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. October 2005
Bernadette Wegenstein Vincent Mosco (2004) The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Cambridge and London: MIT Press. October 2005
Benjamin Noys Matthew Wilkens (ed.) (2005) ?The Philosophy of Alain Badiou?, Polygraph 17. September 2005
Les Roberts Marc Augé (2004) Oblivion. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. September 2005
Iain Morland Colin Davis (2004) After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory. London and New York: Routledge. March 2005
Dorota Glowacka Josh Cohen (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy. New York and London: Continuum. March 2005
Elizabeth Walden George Yúdice (2003) The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era. Durham and London: Duke University Press. March 2005
Simon Morgan Wortham & Christopher Fynsk (in dialogue) Christopher Fynsk (2004) The Claim of Language. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. January 2005
Rob Leventhal Sean Cubitt (2004) The Cinema Effect. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press. January 2005
Steven D. Scott Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt (2000 HB, 2003 PB) The Postdigital Membrane: Imagination, Technology and Desire. Portland, OR: Intellect Books. January 2005
Gwendolyn Blue Luce Irigaray (2002). The Way of Love. Continuum: New York and London. January 2005
Stephen Dougherty Richard Doyle (2003) Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living. (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol. 24) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. August 2004
John Seed Louis Althusser (2003) The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings. London: Verso August 2004
Patrick Crogan Review of Osmose and Ephemere by Char Davies. Exhibited in 'Transfigure' at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne, 8 December 2003 ? 9 May 2004. June 2004
Paul North Simon Morgan Wortham (2003) Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading. Aldershot: Ashgate. June 2004
Nanette Fornabai N. Katherine Hayles (2002) Writing Machines. Cambridge: The MIT Press. February 2004
Michael Dorland Laurence A. Rickels (2002) Nazi Psychoanalysis. Volume One: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War; Volume Two: Crypto-Fetishism; Volume Three: Psy Fi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. February 2004
Stephen Morton Peter Hitchcock (2003) Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
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Bruce Robbins (1999) Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress. New York: New York University Press. 		February 2004
Stephen Dougherty Gregory Dale Adamson (2002) Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital. London and New York: Continuum. October 2003
Radhika Gajjala Sarah Kember(2003) Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. London: Routledge. October 2003
Adrian Mackenzie (2002) Alternate Interfaces: Stelarc. Faculty of Art & Design: Monash University. October 2003
Robert S. Oventile Paul Virilio (2003) Art and Fear. Trans. J. Rose. London and New York: Continuum. August 2003
Robert Leventhal W. G. Sebald (2003) On the Natural History of Destruction. New York: Random House. August 2003
Paul Bowman John Mowitt (2002) Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking. Durham and London: Duke University Press. August 2003
Gib Prettyman Randy Martin (2002) Financialization of Daily Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. August 2003
Katharine Sarikakis Andrew Barry (2001) Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: The Athlone Press. August 2003
Sean Saraka Jane Bennett (2001) The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. May 2003
Paul Bowman Gary Hall (2002) Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory. London and New York: Continuum. May 2003
Tracey Sedinger Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (2001) An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy. Stanford: Stanford University Press. May 2003
Douglas Cunningham Spencer Iain Borden (2001) Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body. Oxford: Berg. May 2003
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Jon Stratton (2000) Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities. London and New York: Routledge. May 2003
Rob Leventhal Adam Phillips (2002) Equals. London: Faber & Faber. February 2003
Christopher Colvin Ruth Mandel & Caroline Humphrey (eds) (2002) Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism. Oxford: Berg. February 2003
Kim Toffoletti Adrian Mackenzie (2002)Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. Continuum: London and New York February 2003
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Simon Critchley (2002) On Humour. London and New York: Routledge. February 2003
M. D. Price John Protevi (2001) Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic. London and New York: Continuum.  December 2002
Pramod K. Nayar Stuart Hall & Mark Sealy (2001) Different. London: Phaidon Press.  December 2002
Alexander Cooke Peter V. Zima (2002) Deconstruction and Critical Theory. London and New York: Continuum. December 2002
  Peter Zima's Response to Alexander Cooke February 2003 
Pramod K. Nayar Chris Hables Gray (2001) Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. New York and London: Routledge. September 2002
Louis Armand Cyber art 1999-2001 March 2002
Pramod K. Nayar R.L. Rutsky (1999) High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. March 2002
Liam McNamara Michael E. Gardiner (2000) Critiques of Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge.

Rosemary Hennessey (2000) Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism. New York and London: Routledge.

 November 2001
Dorota Kolodziejczyk Bhikhu Parekh (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. Basingstoke: Macmillan/Palgrave. November 2001
Niran Abbas Peter Knight (2000) Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files. New York and London: Routledge. June 2001
Joanna Zylinska Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz (eds) (2000) The Turn to Ethics. Routledge: New York and London. June 2001
Rupa Huq Ted Striphas (ed.) (1998) 'The Institutionalization Of Cultural Studies', Cultural Studies 12 (4). 

Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon (1998) Cultural Studies For Beginners. Cambridge: Icon Books.

Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick (eds) (1999) Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge.

 June 2001
Pramod K. Nayar Mike Featherstone (ed.) (2000) Body Modification. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. February 2001 
Paul Bowman Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek (2000) Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. London: Verso. February 2001
Ann Travers Donna J. Haraway (1996) Modest_Witness @Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse?. Feminism and Technoscience. New York and London: Routledge. February 2001
Paul Bowman Simon Wortham (1999) Rethinking the University: Leverage and Deconstruction. Manchester: Manchester University Press. September 2000
  Movements: Simon Wortham's Response to Paul Bowman October 2000 
Ben Knights  Henry A. Giroux and Patrick Shannon (eds) (1997) Education and Cultural Studies: Towards a Performative Practice. New York and London: Routledge. August 2000 
Bernard McKenna & Phil Graham  Marxism Today 'Special Issue' (Nov/Dec 1998) November 1999
   
   

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