Volume 16, Number 3, May 2006

Works

Queer Optimism

Michael Snediker

Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio’s Blur

Cary Wolfe

The Speed of Beauty: An Interview with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Ulrik Ekman

A Critique of Neo-Left Ontology

Carsten Strathausen

Counter-Networks in a Network Society: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

Laura Shackelford

Reviews

“Mystics of a Materialist Age.” A review of Marcus Boon, The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002.

Justus Nieland

“The Hamartia of Light and Shadow: Susan Sontag in the Digital Age.” A review of Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2003.

Manisha Basu

“The Politics of Ontology.” A review of Judith Butler, Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.

John Garrison