Sudeep Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam. His research at present focuses on postcolonial theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School and the politics of modernism. He has published on globalization and cultural identity, television and the auratic politics of Hindu nationalism, and sexuality and multiculturalism.

”In principle, it ought to be possible to construct the model of totality (and a totality that is itself a processi) by beginning with any feature and eventually working our way through and around to all the others in a trajectory different from all the other possible ones and yet somehow still the same, or at least projecting and marking the contours of the same complex unrepresentable phenomenon.” – Fredric Jameson, in: A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the Present

• Sudeep DASGUPTA: Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An IntroductionJoseph PUGLIESE: Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Identity Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian ForumCornelia GRÄBNER: Here to Stay: The Performance of Accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn SissayEsther PEEREN; Carnival Politics and the Territory of the StreetsDeborah NOEL KAPLAN: Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in the Patriot Movement DiscourseOlga GERSHONSON: Politics of Identity and Critical Judgement: Gesher Theater in IsraelBianca KAI ISAKI: Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West IdentitiesSudeep DASGUPTA: Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural StudiesNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Sudeep Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam. His research at present focuses on postcolonial theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School and the politics of modernism. He has published on globalization and cultural identity, television and the auratic politics of Hindu nationalism, and sexuality and multiculturalism.

”In principle, it ought to be possible to construct the model of totality (and a totality that is itself a processi) by beginning with any feature and eventually working our way through and around to all the others in a trajectory different from all the other possible ones and yet somehow still the same, or at least projecting and marking the contours of the same complex unrepresentable phenomenon.” – Fredric Jameson, in: A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the Present

• Sudeep DASGUPTA: Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An IntroductionJoseph PUGLIESE: Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Identity Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian ForumCornelia GRÄBNER: Here to Stay: The Performance of Accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn SissayEsther PEEREN; Carnival Politics and the Territory of the StreetsDeborah NOEL KAPLAN: Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in the Patriot Movement DiscourseOlga GERSHONSON: Politics of Identity and Critical Judgement: Gesher Theater in IsraelBianca KAI ISAKI: Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West IdentitiesSudeep DASGUPTA: Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural StudiesNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Sudeep Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam. His research at present focuses on postcolonial theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School and the politics of modernism. He has published on globalization and cultural identity, television and the auratic politics of Hindu nationalism, and sexuality and multiculturalism.

”In principle, it ought to be possible to construct the model of totality (and a totality that is itself a processi) by beginning with any feature and eventually working our way through and around to all the others in a trajectory different from all the other possible ones and yet somehow still the same, or at least projecting and marking the contours of the same complex unrepresentable phenomenon.” – Fredric Jameson, in: A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the Present

• Sudeep DASGUPTA: Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An IntroductionJoseph PUGLIESE: Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Identity Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian ForumCornelia GRÄBNER: Here to Stay: The Performance of Accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn SissayEsther PEEREN; Carnival Politics and the Territory of the StreetsDeborah NOEL KAPLAN: Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in the Patriot Movement DiscourseOlga GERSHONSON: Politics of Identity and Critical Judgement: Gesher Theater in IsraelBianca KAI ISAKI: Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West IdentitiesSudeep DASGUPTA: Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural StudiesNotes on the ContributorsIndex