This book should be of interest to general readers as well as students of cultural studies and communication.

"New Formations" is a journal of cultural debate, history and theory. It brings new and challenging perspectives to bear on the categories that frame cultural analysis and political action. The journal has covered issues ranging from the seduction of perversity to questions of nationalism and post-colonialism. Contributors open up new zones of enquiry whilst drawing new charts of understanding to explain new formations in contemporary life. "New Formations" brings together in one volume both established and new writers from many walks of critical life. Past contributors have included: Parveen Adams, Nomi Bhabha, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Buck-Morss, Gillian Rose, Jacqueline Rose, Zygmunt Bauman and Christopher Norris.

Victor Burgin on Tokyo, Iain Chambers on Being British, Janet Montefiore on The Thirties, Linda R. Williams on Masochism, John Tagg on Postmodern Art Theory, Paul Crowther on The Sublime, Emilia Steuerman on Habermas and Lyotard. Plus reviews by Geoff Bennington, Mark Cousins, Adrian Forty and Lisa Tickner.