Letter from the General Editor

It is with great excitement and high expectations that we announce, with this issue, the return of Discourse to full speed. We deeply regret the disruptions in communication and the irregular publications of the past several years, which were due primarily to a realignment of the editorial infrastructure of the journal and a relocation of its base. We apologize for the flickering communications that have characterized our recent past, and we thank everyone for their patience during this time, and for their continued interest in Discourse.

Among the significant changes is a new editorial structure that will bring greater diversity of sensibility and style to the journal without relinquishing its legacy of critical interventions in the theory of media and culture. The base of operations for Discourse will now be the Division of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California, which will produce one issue each year. Two other editorial sites, located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne and Indiana University, Bloomington, will also be responsible for one issue each year, totaling three issues per year. We believe this editorial structure will ensure the continued rigor and diversity for which Discourse has been known, and will streamline production, allowing us to do more and reach even farther than we have in the past. We envision Discourse as an editorial collective with three autonomous but interconnecting editorial sites. We will also be announcing, in the near future, the creation of an Editorial Board at USC. With this issue, we welcome Carl Good (formerly Book Reviews Editor) and John Waldron to the Editorial Board, and James Leo Cahill as Managing Editor of Discourse. All submissions and inquiries should be addressed to James Leo Cahill and Akira Mizuta Lippit, or sent to the mailing address at USC.

Over the coming months, we will work to reestablish contact with authors and colleagues, and to resume a more stable publications schedule. We anticipate a balance of special issues with sustained foci as well as a return to general issues which will provide a broad mix of articles. We also hope to reinvigorate our book reviews, as we believe this to be an invaluable service to the various fields that Discourse comprises. As always, we look forward to responses from all readers, and of course, we encourage a wide range of article submissions, since it is that diversity of thought which has always formed the unique texture of Discourse and informed—at its most fundamental level—the critical ideology and practice of Discourse.

We thank you for your patience and encouragement.