In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Di Leo, Jeffrey R
pp. 5-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0012
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Egghead Blues: The Life of the Mind in the Land of Things

Frank L. Cioffi
pp. 7-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0009
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Marxism without Revolution: Towards a History of Discouragement

David R. Shumway
pp. 30-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0038
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Can Hope Be Disappointed?: Contextualizing a Blochian Question

Gerhard Richter
pp. 42-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0037
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Sapere Aude?

Gregg Lambert
pp. 55-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0031
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Post-Deconstructive?: Negri, Derrida, and the Present State of Theory

Jeffrey T. Nealon
pp. 68-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0035
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American Art after September 11: A Consideration of the Twin Towers

Anne K. Swartz
pp. 81-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0041
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The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture under the Bush/Cheney Administration

Henry A. Giroux
pp. 98-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0021
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Treatise on Militarism

Ian Buchanan
pp. 152-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0004
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Excavating the Future of Institutionality: An Open Letter to the University

William H. Castro
pp. 169-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0007
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Public Intellectuals, Inc.

Di Leo, Jeffrey R
pp. 183-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0013
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The Future of Utopia

Gregory Flaxman
pp. 197-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0018
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The Question of Community in Deleuze and Guattari (I): Anti-Community

Irving Goh
pp. 216-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0022
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Literary Criticism for Places

Eric L. Ball
pp. 232-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0000
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"Centaur Meditating on a Saddle": Fabric and Function of the Narrative Voice in William Gaddis' JR

Marc Chénetier
pp. 252-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0008
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Becoming Transnational and Becoming Machinery in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seamen

Michael Templeton
pp. 271-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0043
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Adorno Made Easy

Steven Helmling
pp. 289-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0026
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The Work of Discipline, the Discipline of Work

Terry Caesar
pp. 292-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0005
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Badiou Abridged

Andrew J. Taggart
pp. 297-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0042
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Touching: Proximity, Remove, and the Measure of Things

Christian Moraru
pp. 306-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0034
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Mental Labor and the Cultural Work of Agency Panic

Eric Drown
pp. 311-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0014
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The Question of Writing Now: FC2 responds to Ben Marcus

R. M. Berry
pp. 316-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0001
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Response to Harper's

R. M. Berry
p. 319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0002
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Some Difficulties with Difficulty

Lance Olsen
pp. 319-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0036
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Taking Things for Granted

Brian Evenson
pp. 323-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0016
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On Spinning One's Wheels

Susan Steinberg
pp. 327-330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0040
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Beannacht libh

Michael Joyce
pp. 330-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0029
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Cult Television (review)

Marsha Francis Cassidy
pp. 334-335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0006
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Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture (review)

Yongxing Wu
pp. 335-336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0044
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On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization (review)

Nicholas Brown
pp. 337-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0003
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Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era (review)

Robin Truth Goodman
pp. 338-340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0024
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Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 (review)

Rebecca Graham
pp. 340-342
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0025
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I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film (review)

Karen Hollinger
pp. 342-344
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0028
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Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde (review)

Jonathan P. Eburne
pp. 344-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0015
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Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (review)

Horace L. Fairlamb
pp. 346-348
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0017
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Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory (review)

Philip Goldstein
pp. 348-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0023
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Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (review)

Nancy Rockmore Cirillo
pp. 350-352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0010
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In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 (review)

Jeanne Garane
pp. 352-353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0020
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Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post 9/11 America (review)

Robert P. Marzec
pp. 354-356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0033
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The Void of Ethics: Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity (review)

Mark M. Freed
pp. 356-358
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0019
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Perversity and Ethics (review)

Alphonso Lingis
pp. 358-360
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0032
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I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (review)

Andrew Hoberek
pp. 360-361
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0027
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Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (review)

Brian A. Smith
pp. 362-363
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0039
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (review)

Martin S. Kenzer
pp. 363-365
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0030
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 382-383
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2007.0011
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