Contents

Editor's Note

Michael Snediker, "Queer Optimism"

Cary Wolfe, "Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio's Blur"

Ulrik Ekman, "The Speed of Beauty: An Interview with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht"

Carsten Strathausen, "A Critique of Neo-Left Ontology"

Laura Shackelford, "The Resistance of Counter-Networks in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead"

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Reviews

Justus Nieland, "Mystics of a Materialist Age." A review of Marcus Boon, The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002.

Manisha Basu, "The Hamartia of Light and Shadow: Susan Sontag in the Digital Age." A review of Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2003.

John Garrison, "The Politics of Ontology." A review of Judith Butler, Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.

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