In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 5-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0025
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The Repeatable and the Unrepeatable: Žižek and the Future of the Humanities, or Assessing Socrates

Paul Allen Miller
pp. 7-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0001
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Clueless about Class in Academe

Sharon O’Dair
pp. 27-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0006
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Future’s Shock: Plausibility, Preemption, and the Fiction of 9/11

Annie McClanahan
pp. 41-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0011
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Infotopia: A Report from the Future

Paul Youngquist
pp. 63-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0015
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Distance@

Brian Lennon
pp. 79-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0019
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Writing Mexico: Travel and Intercultural Encounter in Contemporary American Literature

Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak
pp. 95-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0023
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Governmentality, Neoliberalism, and the Digital Game

Andrew Baerg
pp. 115-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0028
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The Smooth Spaces of Play: Deleuze and the Emancipative Potential of Games

Tauel Harper
pp. 129-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0004
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Logging in and Getting Off: Login, Labor, Literature, and the Subject of the Net

Sandy Baldwin
pp. 143-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0009
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“We Need Radical Gameplay, Not Just Radical Graphics”: Towards a Contemporary Minor Practice in Computer Gaming

Seb Franklin
pp. 163-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0013
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Constructing the Ethical Limits of Play in Policy Debates

Edmund Zagorin
pp. 181-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0017
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Installing the Game: Gameplay in the Installation T_Visionarium

Melissa Milton-Smith
pp. 197-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0021
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World of Warcraft: The Murloc is the Message

Gail Shivel
pp. 205-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0026
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Theorising Schmitt’s Friend-Enemy through Deleuzian Folding and First-Person Shooters

Ian Cook
pp. 215-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0002
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Dead Time: Aporias and Critical Videogaming

Sarah Cameron Loyd Grey
pp. 231-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0007
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Reading, Writing, Being: Persians, Parisians, and the Scandal of Identity

Christian Moraru
pp. 247-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0012
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Matei Calinescu: The Adventure and Drama of Modernity

Marcel Cornis-Pope
pp. 255-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0016
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Unreading, Rereading, and the Art of Not Reading

Liedeke Plate
pp. 261-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0020
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Matei Calinescu: An Independent Intellectual

Douwe Fokkema
pp. 267-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0024
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At the Gates of Writing: Matei Calinescu and the Distance Between Rereading and Rewriting

Aaron Chandler
pp. 271-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0000
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“The Shibboleth of Liberation”: Calinescu’s Postmodernism

Marjorie Perloff
pp. 277-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0005
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Autistic Solitude and the Act of Reading

Dorothy Figueira
pp. 281-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0010
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Calinescu’s Dialogue with Ihab Hassan

Jerome Klinkowitz
pp. 287-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0014
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Interview

Vincent B. Leitch, Daniel Morris
pp. 291-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0018
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Disclosing Enclosure

William V. Spanos
pp. 307-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0022
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Young People Are No Longer at Risk: They are the Risk

Sophia A. McClennen
pp. 317-322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0027
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War, Human Rights, and the American Left: Thoughts Inspired by Michael Bérubé’s The Left At War

John McGowan
pp. 323-332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0003
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 352-354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0008
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