Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Invisibility or Blindness? On Attention, the Unseen, and the Seen Both not seeing what is perfectly visible...

Arien Mack, Editor Freedom of expression remains under threat in both totalitarian and democratic states. Artists continue to be...

Arien Mack, Editor How have conceptions of horror changed over time, particularly since 9/11 or Hiroshima? How does horror figure in...

Arien Mack, Editor This issue marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Heuss Professorship at the New School for Social Research. Named for...

Arien Mack, Editor Since becoming a folk term for Americans in the 1950s the category of the "image" has had multiple careers, occasionally in contact with one another and often not. From avatars to reality TV, from maps and photographs to representations of data, from advertising and PR to politics, the question of image vs. essence is alive and thriving. In this issue of Social Research, authors explore the major "brands" of image discourse today, taking a close look at wha

Arien Mack, Editor William Hirst, Guest Coditor Arien Mack and William Hirst Editors’ Introduction Since Maurice Halbwachs first wrote about the phenomenon, the study of collective memory has played a critical role in discussions of collective and, in particular, national identity. Students of collective memory have chiefly been interested in the memory practices a community undertakes to maintain publicly available symbols of the past, with memorials and commemorations, al

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction First the face is part of us which is usually most visible and recognizable, and so...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction The papers in this special issue are all versions of presentations given at the conference on Technology and the rest of Culture held at the New School in January of 1997. Its title is meant to call attention to the idea that technology is not something separate from the rest of our culture--and as long as we fail to acknowledge this we will continue to endow it with agency and autonomy, which in turn will have profound, oft