Discouragement


Volume 14, Numbers 1-2


This issue asks how do intellectuals confront the present times? How do they make themselves heard? How do they make their words matter? The articles in this issue analyze the present situation of the intellectual, a situation that many find to be discouraging. 

Contents

Frank L. Cioffi
Egghead Blues: The Life of the Mind in the Land of Things

David R. Shumway
Marxism without Revolution: Towards a History of Discouragement

Gerhard Richter
Can Hope Be Disappointed? Contextualizing a Blochian Question

Gregg Lambert
Sapere Aude?

Jeffrey T. Nealon
Post-deconstructive? Negri, Derrida, and the Present State of Theory

Anne K . Swartz
American Art after September 11: A Consideration of the Twin Towers

Henry A. Giroux
The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture under the Bush/Cheney Administration

Ian Buchanan
Treatise on Militarism

William H. Castro
Excavating the Future of Institutionality: An Open Letter to the University

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Public Intellectuals, Inc.

Gregory Flaxman
The Future of Utopia