CONTENTS 

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                        In Memoriam:
                  Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004


Arkady Plotnitsky, The Différance of the World: 
Homage to Jacques Derrida

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                         Articles

Claire Colebrook, The Sense of Space: On the 
Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari

Jenny H. Edbauer, Executive Overspill: Affective Bodies, 
Intensity, and Bush-in-Relation

Rimi Khan, Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault

Gerald Gaylard, Postmodern Archaic: The Return of the Real 
in Digital Virtuality


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                      Review Essays
 

Steven Dougherty, On Media and Modules. A review of 
Joseph Tabbi, _Cognitive Fictions_. Minneapolis: 
U of Minnesota P, 2002.

V. Nicholas LoLordo, Identity Poetics? or, The Norton 
Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. A review of 
Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O'Clair, 
editors, _The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary 
Poetry_ (3rd edition). New York: Norton, 2003.

Andrew Timms, Theory's Hubris. A review of Steven Helmling, 
_The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson: Writing, 
the Sublime, and the Dialectic of Critique_. Albany: 
SUNY P, 2001. 

Philip A. Gunderson, Danger Mouse's Grey Album, Mash-Ups, 
and the Age of Composition. A review of Danger 
Mouse (Brian Burton), _The Grey Album_. Bootleg Recording. 

Mark A. Cohen, How Postmodern Is It? A review of Maurice 
Blanchot, _The Book to Come_. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.

Christopher Forster, Aesthetics without Art: The Para-
Epistemic Project of Kant's Third Critique. A review of 
Rodolphe Gasché, _The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's 
Aesthetics_. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.


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                  Notices (HTML Version Only)


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                  Notes on Contributors


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                         Abstracts

Claire Colebrook, The Sense of Space: On the 
Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari

    o Abstract: While Deleuze is frequently critical of the 
spatialization of time,such that one of duration's 
effects--man--produces a homogenized and metric time, he is 
also concerned with the ways in which spatial milieux allow 
for the thought of time in general. Certain affects and 
images, including the face of Western man, create 
transcendent planes that organize life from a single point 
of view, but the thought of affect as such also allows for 
the intuition of the plane of immanence--the spatial lines 
emanating from one enduring life. --cc


Jenny H. Edbauer, Executive Overspill: Affective Bodies, 
Intensity, and Bush-in-Relation

    o Abstract: This article contributes to emerging 
theories of affect (following recent work by Brian Massumi, 
Steven Shaviro, and others) by outlining a critical 
vocabulary that approaches culture in its affective 
dimensions, beyond existing cultural vocabularies of 
signification. Such an affective vocabulary makes it 
possible to account for social and political effects 
that are conducted through non-qualified and 
non-signifying operations. Taking the body as a site of 
affect's operation in culture, this article suggests that 
we should read certain political body-sites across the 
affective terms of intensity, relationality, and a 
Deleuzoguattarian sense of the event. Citing the specific 
illustration of George W. Bush's infamous malapropisms, 
the author argues that we cannot fully understand the 
effects of political and cultural bodies if our readings 
proceed only along the plane of signification. This 
article thus offers a double gesture of affective 
analysis. First, it generates an affective vocabulary 
via the spectacle of Bush's decomposing body. It then 
reads this body across a developing vocabulary of 
affect. --jhe

Rimi Khan, Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault

This article attempts to track the reception of Foucault 
within cultural studies and examines the difficulties 
involved in mobilizing Foucault's ideas within the field as 
it exists in its current orthodoxies. The theoretical and 
methodological problems that arise when deploying Foucault's 
ideas turn largely on cultural studies' conceptualizations 
of power, subjectivity, and discourse, and reveal a dialectic 
between structure and agency that appears to define and 
constrain cultural studies' critical agenda. The article 
surveys some of the ways in which the investigative 
possibilities raised by Foucault's work have been put to use 
within cultural studies--including figures such as Stuart 
Hall, Judith Butler, Tony Bennett, and Ian Hunter. It is 
argued that the tenets of cultural studies' criticality 
manifest themselves as a series of ongoing, irresolvable 
tensions. Following Hunter, it is contended that these 
dilemmas are imbricated with a more profound opposition 
that is central to the formation of the modern wsubject. 
It is, however, also a certain reading of Foucault that 
opens up a less burdened space of analysis--providing the 
tools for generating an alternative pragmatics that 
enables tangible interventions into specific 
historical problems. --rk

Gerald Gaylard, Postmodern Archaic: The Return of the Real 
in Digital Virtuality

    o Abstract: This paper argues against a transcendental 
version of postmodern virtuality, with its desire to achieve 
escape velocity, by showing that a major feature of postmodern 
culture is in fact realism, a brand of realism that is 
concerned with the archaic, the natural, the pristine and 
unspoiled. The roots of realism are briefly charted in order 
to show the continuity and reformatting of realism within 
postmodern virtual culture in the form of reality TV, with 
Survivor and more reflexive films dealing with reality and 
virtuality as the primary exemplars. Realism's premise of 
mimesis and authenticity has evidently survived in postmodern 
culture, and as ever functions as ideological camouflage, 
despite being rigorously questioned in more reflexive 
postmodernisms. This suggests not so much the enduring 
utility of materialist critiques, but that virtual culture 
cannot float free of the physical, let alone the generic, 
that the acculturation of the archaic is likely to 
increase in the future, and that realism is unlikely 
to disappear. --gg