Discourse journal

Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture

General Editor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.

In the latest issue of Discourse:

Hostly and Unhostly Mediums

  • Technology, Aesthetics and Populism in “The Gospel According to Mark”
  • Brett Levinson
  • Sympathy For the Dead: (G)hosts, Hostilities and Mediums in Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others and Postmortem Photography
  • Susan Bruce
  • Invitation to Politics: Juan García Ponce and the Promise of Availability
  • David E. Johnson
  • Messianic-City: Ruins, Refuge and Hospitality in Derrida
  • Puspa Damai
  • Sovereign (In)hospitality: Politics and the Staging of Equality in Revolutionary Mexico
  • Gareth Williams
  • Is Nothing Secret?
  • Scott Michaelsen & Scott Cutler Shershow
  • Unhostly Historical Discourses in Ariel Dorfman’s Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey and Albertina Carri’s film The Blonds
  • Valeria Wagner
  • Hawthorne, Sacrifice, Sovereignty
  • Tim Deines
  • Piercing the Screen of Words: Reflections on the Political Poetics of Douglas Oliver
  • Carol Watts
  • What About Schmitt? Translating Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty as Literary Concept [Review]
  • Jess Boersma