maglab

magazines under the microscope

Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman’s Magazine to GQ and Barack Obama

Andrew Calcutt, November 2009 Summary: Magazines are mercantile: they originated as accessories to market expansion before turning

Andrew Calcutt, October 2009 Summary: Magazines, perhaps more than newspapers, have always offset their reporting of the outside

Richard Sharpe, November 2006 Summary: Client publishing, customer magazines, contract publishing – it goes by various names but the reality

Summary: The continous role of magazines is to contribute to the mediation of contradictory social relations, i.e. the essential contradiction