Volume 28, Numbers 1-2 [2020]
This issue examines how control modulates conditions of permanent crisis, endless environmental degradation, and creative destruction making every aspect of society less habitable and more insufferable. From the increasing financialization of everyday life to the growing administration and automation of social processes, control has come to take on an expanding and expansive role in the contemporary world—one that is neither ontologized nor automated but rather engineered for polarization and the increasing transfer of wealth upwards. Still, whether the present cultural and political moment calls for a move beyond the conceits of Deleuze and other twentieth-century speculation on control is the central topic of this issue.

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Vol. 26, Nos. 1-2 [2018]
This issue introduces a range of theoretical possibilities for contemporary Oceania, moving between Western and Pacific ontologies and epistemologies. From the political to the literary, the contributors ask: “how can we theorize Oceanian modernity, ensuring that we reflect and engage without imposing Western models or privileging Western experiences?” They explore, in great depth, what is at stake in the myriad names, such as “South Pacific,” “the South Seas,” and the “Pacific Islands,” often imposed by colonial power structures, which mark the region. Collectively, their responses show how the work of Oceania’s theorists presents a set of challenges and opportunities for those who do not affiliate their work with this under-theorized region of the world.

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Vol. 25, No. 1-2 [2017]
This issue explores the implications of the passport as a crucial, yet imperfect instrument of state power. How do passports restrict or enable mobility, and what social logics determine the distribution and granting of access in a globalized world? What are the social, political, economic, and intellectual dimensions of passports in the contemporary world? What are the philosophical and critical dimensions of the passport?

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Vol. 24, No. 1-2 [2016]
This issue addresses diverse questions of materialism and materiality. Articles dialogue with emergent accounts of materiality and materialism, from new materialist, feminist materialist, speculative realist, and object-oriented accounts of materiality to rethinking of concepts of materiality and materialism in Marxist theory, ecotheory, biopolitical theory, affect theory, animal studies, and posthumanisms. They ask can materialism serve as a new organizing principle for the humanities? What kinds of questions does a focus on materialism and materiality open up? What does it close down? How can the different forms of materialist speculation be brought into productive dialogue with each other?

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Vol. 23, No. 1-2 [2015]
This issues engages posthumanism in ways that avoid flattening “the human” into a monolithic or homogenous problematic. Its takes up posthumanism in relation to the crisis of the humanities and the ongoing crises faced by marginalized “humans” around the globe. It asks how might posthumanist thought by symptomatic of the crisis of the humanities and higher education more broadly? How has posthumanist inquiry ignored the lived heterogeneities of humanness distributed across raced, classed, gendered, and differently abled bodies? How can posthumanism’s critical political project benefit from being brought into intimate connection with critical race, queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and disability theories?

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