Table of Contents

Travelling the subterranean river of blood - philosophy and magic in cultural studies, S. Muecke; postmodern consumer culture without postmodernity - copying the crisis of signification, M.K.Kang; Indie - the institutional politics and aesthetics of a popular music genre, D.Hesmondhalgh; TV viewing as good citizenship? political rationality, enlightened democracy and PBS, L.Ouellete; dangerous liasons - queer subjectivity, liberalism and race, J.Samuels; contesting urban freeway stories - racial politics and the OJ chase, P.M.Fotsch; apocalypse of paradise and the salvation of the West - nightmare visions of the future in the Pacific Eden, A.Cowell.