The extinction of academic writing?
Reviews and reflection on Maddalena Cerrato's and Peter Baker's 'Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns' by Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota Janneke Adema: When I…
Is infrapolitics geological?
Is infrapolitics geological? Reviews of Nigel Clark's 'Molten Praxis' by José Luis Villacañas and Alberto Moreiras, with a brief reply from the author
The Death of the University, English Style
Nick Couldry and Angela McRobbie Something important died on 12 October 2010: the idea of the university in England. Perhaps 'received its death warrant' would be more accurate than 'died'.…
The Somnambulist and the Hermaphrodite: Deleuze and Johann de Montereggio and Occultism
Christian Kerslake One of Gilles Deleuze's first articles, published in 1946, was an introduction to a new French edition of an arcane work of philosophy bearing the title Mathesis: or Studies…
Creative Evolution? The Quest for Life (On Mars)1
Sarah Kember The current quest for life is both material and metaphorical, and is particularly characteristic of the shifting boundary between technoscience, art and media. It raises questions of definition…
Can Desire Go On Without A Body? Pornographic Exchange and the Death of the Sun
Dougal Phillips 'While we talk, the sun is getting older' Jean-François Lyotard) Introduction One statistic among many: Every day there are 68 million search engine requests for pornographic material, making…
‘Anarchic Vision’: Ocular Constructions of Race and the Challenge of Ethics
Dorota Glowacka Figure 1: Adrian Piper, My Calling (Card)1 What happens when the look is returned - when black people own the look and startle whites into knowledge of…
Interview with Donald E. Ingber
Donald E. Ingber and Diane Morgan Introduction The idea that Life, stretching from the smallest of organic elements to the cosmos itself, is governed by universal rules and basic principles…
From Retrovirus to Hyptertext: The Technogeneses of the Wake
Louis Armand RETRO-VIRUS/MYTHOMORPHOLOGY/TYPOGENETICS/ALETHEOMETRY/ARCHITECTONICS There is no genetics without 'genetic drift'. The modern theory of mutations has clearly demonstrated that a code, which necessarily relates to a population, has an essential…
The Politics of Emergency versus Public Time: Terrorism and the Culture of Fear
Henry A. Giroux Five months after the horrific terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, President George Bush announced in his State of the Union Address on…