systems theory

Against the conflation of Islamic and economic fundamentalisms (William S. Wilson responds to Nick Spenser).

A personal account by novelist Joseph McElroy of the WTC crash (that is: a structure of some outside and inside project encompassing one individual).

Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.

Stephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.

One of a series of eco-critical reviews, Stephen Dougherty explores the new ways that "matter is made to matter" in Ira Livingston's writing on science and literature. The payoff of an ecocriticism grounded in the materiality of language itself, can bee seen by the strong political positioning toward the end of Dougherty's essay.