critical ecologies
Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek addresses the situation of post-9/11 global politics - and his own, controversial, theories of the political - in this interview with Eric Dean Rasmussen.
Fingering Prefiguring
Alex Reid examines a cross-section of essays in Prefiguring Cyberculture, a work that historicizes the future as neither alarmist nor utopian.
Optical Media Archaeologies
Anthony Enns juxtaposes two models of German media theory in reviewing new works by Oliver Grau and Friedrich Kittler.
Stream of Thought
On the occasion of a new novel by Joseph McElroy and the Overlook Press reissue of McElroy's earlier work, Andrew Walser initiates a revaluation.
McElroy’s Metropolitan Constructions
Shells, Tents, Slaps, Shocks: Steffen Hantke works slowly, from within, to get at McElroy's nonlinear narrative.
Histories of the Present
Darren Tofts reviews a popularization by Marie O'Mahony and an auto-critique of cyberculture by Andrew Murphie and John Potts.
Words and Syllables
Sven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.
Racial Remix
Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.
The Question of the Animal
On a posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.
Manuel DeLanda’s Art of Assembly
Aaron Pease reviews Manual DeLanda's philosophy of the virtual.