Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0-8223-3168-3. Elizabeth Walden In her article 'Resisting Left Melancholia,' Wendy Brown castigates 'a left that has become more attached to its impossibility than…
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0816644829. The claim of the humanities: A dialogue between Simon Morgan Wortham and Christopher Fynsk Simon Morgan Wortham Christopher Fynsk's most recent book, The Claim…
Portland, OR: Intellect Books. ISBN HB: 1841500429, PB: 1841508454. Steven D. Scott Think of a book that is scholarly without being academic, or perhaps academic without being scholarly; that accepts…
Cambridge and London: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262033127. Cinema as Effect Rob Leventhal Using Marx's fundamental insight into the production and construction of commodity fetishism, and taking as his point…
Trans. Heidi Bostic and Stephen Pluhàcek. Continuum: New York and London. ISBN: 0-8264-5982-X Gwendolyn Blue In my experience, engaging with Irigaray's texts is never an easy task. This is particularly…
If it is true that we are, as popular opinion would have it, in the midst of a genetic revolution, then it is also true that we are witness to…
The living being is above all a thoroughfare, and . . . the essence of life is in the movement by which life is transmitted. (Bergson, 1911: 128)Life (anima --…
The networks of life Not long after the initial legal proceedings began in May 2004 to indict Steve Kurtz, a member of the art collective Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), for…
Introduction On Thursday the 23rd of November 2004 the headline on the front page of The West Australian stated: 'Gene tests to pick junior sports stars' (O'Leary, 2004: 1). The…
0. Fear & futurity The history of bioterror stretches back at least to the 6th century BC, when the Ayssrians attempted to poison the wells of their enemies with rye…