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    EcoMedia
    CUBITT, S ; Rust, S ; Monani, S ; Cubitt, S (Rodopi, 2005)
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    The Fading of the Elves: ecology, eco-catastrophe, tehnopoly, and bio-security
    CUBITT, S ; Mathijs, E ; Pomerance, M (Rodopi, 2006)
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    The Cinema Effect
    CUBITT, S (MIT Press, 2004)
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    Tactical Media
    CUBITT, S ; Sarikakis, K ; Thussu, D (Hampton Press, 2006)
    The world communicates. Contemporary physics and chemistry instruct us in the nature of an information universe and reveal the microdimensional infolding of space and time upon themselves in such ways that, in the fundamental laboratory demonstration of quantum effects, subatomic entities “communicate.” The trees communicate with the sun, the seas with the moon, our eyes with ancient light from dead galaxies, our skins with the cosmic background radiation. The inhabitants of this planet have evolved to receive the communications of their environment, migratory birds to sense magnetic fields, anchovies to follow the ocean currents, and humans to communicate. Among and between people, communication has taken on a special form. Like many animals, we externalize communication in acts of nest building and giving and receiving food. Unlike our cousins, we have also found complex ways of storing and retrieving communications. Storage is the origin of economics. Giving and withholding communication, or otherwise interrupting and redirecting the cosmic flow, is the basis on which we humans undertake our job of making futurity. It is also a favored way to acquire honor, divinity, a papacy, a throne, a Nobel prize, wealth, sex, notoriety, or whatever else in any period of history has become the name and icon of satisfaction. The tactic developed by the ancient priesthoods and perfected in the rise of finance capital is to become a node through which the maximum of communication passes and to secrete a tithe of that flow for personal, familial, clan, or caste monopoly.
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    Distribution and Media Flows
    CUBITT, S (Duke University Press, 2005)
    While production, text and audience have been extensively covered by media and cultural studies scholars, the study of distribution is in its infancy. This essay argues that the distributive moment of the media cycle - incorporating delivery to audience, business-to-business distribution and the redistribution of profits and information derived from audiences - is critical to an understanding of twenty-first-century cultural politics. It offers an analysis of distribution, and considerations on the politics of alternative modes of distribution.
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    Visual and Audiovisual: from image to moving image
    CUBITT, S (SAGE Journals, 2002)
    The apparently arcane question of whether an image can move reveals key difficulties concerning the tasks facing visual culture. Among them are the lack of attention to graphic and animated images, to cartography, spreadsheets and databases and other workplace media, and to the relations between image and sound, and image and text. The step from still image to moving image concerns especially the temporal dimension of human communication, a focus too often missing from poststructural analyses. This article argues for the uses of visual cultural analysis in the emergence of new visual practices.
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    To Transitory Peace
    CUBITT, S (SAGE Publications, 2002)
    •Cultural studies increasingly looks across boundaries. This article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjective and dialogic level. •