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This paper explores the deep historical contexts for imagining natural disasters. By focusing on a foundational event in the Western disaster imaginary – the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 – and its remediation across centuries, the paper suggests that the real-time aesthetic of the mediation of extreme nature events that now abounds in contemporary culture is profoundly embedded in processes of historical intermediality. The term remediation is used to denote a genuinely historical mechanism by which past and present (process and event) are simultaneously made visible. Empirically, the paper investigates the superimposition of temporal dimensions in recreations of the ancient disaster from the late 18th century to the present. Using the insights gained from this spectacular case study, the paper ends by arguing that a re-temporalization of historical analysis itself is needed for history to contribute to contemporary concerns with the present as a conjuncture of multiple and conflicting time scales.

The main purpose of this article is to draw attention to a long-standing history of exhibiting disasters to distant audiences. In particular, the article explores the transregional imaginaries and cross-temporal connections that emerge from the history of what may be labelled the disaster display or disaster show. This refers to a particular genre of multimedia re-enactments of extreme events that developed in the context of temporary exhibitions and popular amusements in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Disaster displays typically involved visual representations, sound effects, fireworks, lectures and theatrical performances, and invited their audiences to experience a diversity of extreme events, for example distant wars, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fire fighting and floods. In offering a blend of special effects and the thrills of authenticity, disaster shows copied and competed with, and sometimes incorporated, some of the traits of a variety of attractions in turn-of-the-century popular visual culture, such as serialized wax displays, moving panoramas and early film. The article especially investigates some of these intermedialities but it also discusses how the displays engaged and positioned the audience.

År 2018 fyller Karl Marx 200 år och det är 50 år sedan Parisrevolten 1968. Men marxismen är inte bara ett minne, marxismen är aktuell.0Konsten har länge varit ett hett diskussionsämne för marxister. Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels var båda konstintresserade och skrev en hel del om konst. Allt sedan dess har diskussionen fortsatt. Att placera sig själv i historien' redogör Peter Ekström för denna yviga debatt. Hans syfte är delvis att ge en introduktion till den marxistiska konstdiskussionen. Men främst har han undersökt om det finns någonting av den som fortfarande är giltigt och användbart idag. Att placera sig själv i historien' är en dialog och diskussion med Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin, György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, John Berger, Griselda Pollock, Fredric Jameson, Jan Myrdal, Johan Ehrenberg och många andra. Det handlar om konstens ursprung, om realism, om moral, om konstens beroende eller oberoende, om sanning och lögn och om fantasi

This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news production and media talk in general, a number of internationally acclaimed scholars investigate the discursive and interactional practices that give rise to the arena of public politics in contemporary society. Chapters span an array of cultural contexts, as diverse as Sweden, Greece, Belgium (Flanders), the U.K., Spain, Israel, the U.S.A., Australia and China. Authors combine an interest in discourse analysis and conversation analysis with different disciplinary orientations, such as linguistics, media and cultural studies, sociology, political science, and social psychology. The book uncovers current trends in media and political discourse, and will be of interest to both students and scholars of media discourse and politics.