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Connected: Engagements with Media

What happens to art in an age of rapid and unremitting change? How does the sense of social disintegration increasingly characteristic of contemporary life challenge cultural producers to rethink their relationships to their art and to their audiences? Through a series of stimulating and provocative interviews, the intellectuals and artists represented in this volume explain how they face up to the harsh realities as well as the faint possibilities of our era.

"The subjects of the pieces in Late Editions 4 might easily be understood as the less frequently addressed organic intellectuals, not among proletarians or subalterns, but in the domain of the professional middle classes who work in the production of mass media. I have used the term cultural producers to refer to them. Unlike most of the pieces in Late Editions 3, which were located in the United States, a country of great wealth and political stability, the pieces of Late Editions 4 are located in various "perilous states", places of limited resources, dominated or reorganizing economies, and of recently transformed polities with uncertain futures. The careers and projects of the cultural producers who are the subjects of this volume arise in many ways from the turbulence and limitations of the everyday conditions in which they find themselves."

- George Marcus

2. Lesley Fordred. Natal Cockroaches Fly: Khaba Mkhize and Communitarian Journalism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

3. Thomas C. Wolfe. The Most Visible Hand: Russian Journalism and Media-Context.

4. Michael M. J. Fischer. Filming Poland: The Ethnographic (Documentary, Narrative) Films of Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

5. Gudrun Klein. Correspondences: A Letter from Germany.

6. Hamid Naficy. The Accented Style of the Independent Transnational Cinema: A Conversation with Atom Egoyan.

7. Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo. Art and Media-tion: Reflection on Violence and Representation.

8. Lucien Taylor. Mediating Martinique: The "Paradoxical Trajectory" of Raphael Confiant.

9. Nancy Sullivan. Interview with Albert Toro.

10. Julie Taylor. Pueblo Chico, Infierno Grande - Small Town, Large Hell: Toward the Global Village?

11. Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo. Pescando en Rio Revuelto: The Crisis of Human Rights in Colombia.