Editors' Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas that does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global, and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that, therefore, questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For more than 50 years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity, and we continue to encourage work that goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and that, therefore, interrogates them.

This issue of CR developed out of the conference "Guerra y Paz: Desde la pregunta por la memoria hasta las aporias de la democracia" held at the Instituto de Humanidades at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, September 7-9, 2011, sponsored by the Instituto de Humanidades (UDP), the Goethe Institute, and the Instituto Chileno-Francés. We thank Aïcha Liviana Messina for coordinating this issue of CR and for making possible the translation of several of the essays included herein.

We currently are soliciting work for Special Issues and Special Sections on the following topics, among others:

• Psychoanalysis and Race

• Writing, Violence, Latin America

• Law and Violence

• Indigenous Aesthetics

• Auto-Affection

• Biopolitics

• Time