[Air-L] Oct 12: Launch of Christian Fuchs' OA book "Critical Theory of Communication" and the University of Westminster Press

[Christian Fuchs]

Launch of the book "Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of 
Lukács, Adorno, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet" and 
University of Westminster Press
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
18:30-20:30 (followed by reception)
Fyvie Hall
309 Regent St
W1B 2HW London

Further information:
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/book-launch-critical-theory-of-communication

Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-critical-theory-of-communication-tickets-27680660601 


Update about availability of paperback/gratis ebook/gratis pdf:
www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

University of Westminster Press (UWP) and Westminster Institute for 
Advanced Studies are pleased to mark the first publication of UWP, 
Critical Theory of Communication, by Christian Fuchs. It is the first 
book in an new open access book series entitled Critical Digital and 
Social Media Studies.

Christian Fuchs will be giving an introduction to his new open access 
book that revisits writings of Frankfurt School authors in the age of 
the Internet. He argues that today we need to transcend Habermas' 
communication theory by establishing a dialectical and 
cultural-materialist critical theory of communication. The approach he 
takes starts from Georg Lukács' "Ontology of Social Being" and draws on 
works by Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Axel Honneth. It sets 
these approaches into a dialogue with Raymond Williams’ cultural 
materialism, outlining why such analysis is so vital for understanding a 
world dominated by the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon and other 
corporate technology multinationals.

The book will be available from October on as affordable paperback and 
as free pdf and ebook from http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk and 
www.westminster.ac.uk/wias - updates via subscription to the newsletter 
www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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Programme

Introduction by University of Westminster Provost Professor Graham Megson

Setting up a university press in the digital age, by Andrew Lockett, 
Press Manager, University of Westminster Press

Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, 
Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
Christian Fuchs, Director of Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies

Reception (Drinks and snacks)
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