This piece is an attempt to understand physical structures intertextually and to map mental forms and biographical fragments onto architectural objects.It stands language games and postures of articulation next to one another to produce meaning through differentiation and creative negation.

This paper explores the question of identity formation in the blogosphere (that is, do bloggers identify as such) from the perspective of a cultural history of blog technologies, incorporating the early origins of internet technologies.

A review of Clare Hemmings, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke 2011) and Janet Halley & Andrew Parker (eds.) After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (Duke 2011).

A review of Bernard Lahire, The Plural Actor (Polity 2010).

A review of Zygmunt Bauman, Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Polity, 2011).

A review of Tony Bennett and John Frow (eds), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (Sage, 2008).

A review of David L. Brown and Kai A. Schaft, Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation (Polity, 2011) and Rob Garbutt, The Locals: Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2011).

A review of Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir R Isar (eds), Heritage, Memory and Identity (Sage, 2011).

Review of Jeff Lewis, Crisis in the Global Mediasphere: Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

A review of Vicki Mayer, Below the Line: Producers and production studies in the new television economy (Duke, 2011) and James Bennett and Niki Strange (eds), Television as Digital Media (Duke, 2011).