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</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>This edition of <I>Transformations</I> focuses on the influence Walter Benjamin continues to have on contemporary thought. It seeks to create a dialogue between contemporary scholars, theorists, and writers from a range of disciplines and practices with Benjamin’s ideas on politics, art, and representation in the context of a shift from mass to global culture. In this increasingly privately mediated culture, virtually transmitted communicational artifacts are playing an important role in not only shaping the nature of representation, but the nature of being human itself.<BR>
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Articles<BR>
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</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Walter Benjamin on Photography: Towards Elemental Politics<BR>
Mika Elo<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#778899">Benjamin, Trauma and the Virtual<BR>
</FONT>Allen Meek<BR>
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Cybersurgery and Surgical (Dis)embodiment: Technology, Science, Art and the Body<BR>
Julie Doyle<BR>
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Fossilising the Commodity: Tactical Engagements with Time, Art and the Virtual in Models by Ricky Swallow<BR>
Marita Bullock<BR>
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Aura as Productive Loss<BR>
Warwick Mules<BR>
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The Horror of Disconnection: The Auratic in Technological Malfunction<BR>
Martin Dixon<BR>
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“Politicizing Art”: Benjamin’s Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age of Fascism<BR>
Amresh Sinha<BR>
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Dialectical Film Criticism: Walter Benjamin’s Historiography, Cultural Critique and the Archive<BR>
Catherine Russell<BR>
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The Dissipating Aura of Cinema<BR>
Kristen Daly<BR>
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>From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0<BR>
Simon Lindgren<BR>
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Contemplative Immersion: Benjamin, Adorno & Media Art Criticism<BR>
Daniel Palmer<BR>
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Tillers of the Soil/Travelling Journeymen: Modes of the Virtual<BR>
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul<BR>
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Paradise Regained? The Work of Mediation Technology in an Age of Open Communities<BR>
John Grech<BR>
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Go to this issue at the following site:<BR>
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<a href="http://transformationsjournal.org/">http://transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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The Editors<BR>
Regards<BR>
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Warwick<BR>
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Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor, Transformations <a href="http://transformationsjournal.org/">http://transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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