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vii Acknowledgments B e c Au s e t h i s i s the first title in the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis, I’d like to acknowledge the contributions of my faculty colleagues and staff in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA). Four years ago, we were given a rare opportunity—to launch a new and genuinely transdisciplinary department within the milieu of a research university. So far, the experience has been bracing and productive, to say the least. We salute NYU Press, and Editor in Chief Eric Zinner in particular, for seeing that the creation of the department was also an opportunity to do something unique at the press. The result was to dedicate a series for publishing work generated from SCA. I’m proud that this book is the first fruit of that collaboration. For their valuable comments on the entire manuscript, my gratitude goes to Neil Brenner, Toby Miller, Dana Polan, and the anonymous reviewers. Others who contributed ideas, suggestions, or who served as models to follow include Angela McRobbie, Rosalind Gill, Andy Pratt, Juan Flores, Teddy Cruz, Kristin Ross, Adam Green, Toby Miller, Devon Pena, Katie Quan, Liza Featherstone, Michael Keane, Wang Xiaoming, George Yudice, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Jeff Ballinger, Ned Rossiter, Geert Lovink, Sukhdev Sandhu, Paul Smith, Chris Newfield, and Cary Nelson. Thanks to the guest editors or staff editors of four journals where some of the material in these chapters first appeared: Ursula Huws, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Marita Sturken, Sam Binkley, Jo Littler, Richard Kim, and Bill Saunders. Each helped to shape the material in new, and more clear, directions. I’m also grateful to Danny Walkowitz, Harvey Molotch, Sophie Watson, and Frank Mort, whose New York–London seminar prompted my comparative research on the Olympics. Thanks to Michael Palm, Leigh Dodson, and Katie Haskell for research assistance. Among the many luxuries I enjoy from her companionship, Maggie Gray’s eye for detail and for justice has improved every page of the book. viii Acknowledgments Some of the material in chapter 1 appeared in Work Organization, Labour, and Globalization; chapter 4 in The Nation and Cultural Studies; chapter 5 in Harvard Design Magazine; an earlier version of chapter 6 in American Quarterly; and chapter 7 in Monika Krause, Michael Palm, Mary Nolan, and Andrew Ross, eds., The University against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008). ...

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