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> This issue of Theory & Event begins our fifth year of publication
> with an exchange between Jacques Derrida and the participants in the
> Sydney seminar on justice, language, and the subject.
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> The issue's three essays investigate how we might begin to think
> more specifically about the various relationships between aesthetic
> aspirations and the politics of modernity. In our lead essay, Jane
> Bennett's "Commodity Fetishism and Commodity Enchantment," both
> demonstrates and illustrates the ever contemporary fantastic
> connections between words and things. In her "From Technocracy to
> Technoculture," Jodi Dean presents a major critique of
> technoculture, creatively deploying Zizek's analysis of popular
> culture to undermine both the utopian aspirations of
> technofetishists and communicative theorists such as Habermas. Then
> in "Politics and Anxiety in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan," William
> Sokoloff traces the distinction between fear and anxiety in Hobbes's
> work, showing how the distinction can lead to a rereading, not only
> of Hobbes, but of the politics of the sublime.
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> In the Reviews section, Kathy Trevenen reviews Martha Nussbaum, Sex
> & Social Justice and Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding (eds.),
> Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural,
> Postcolonial, and Feminist World.
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> Chris Robinson's review essay, "How To Do Things With Wittgenstein,"
> addresses Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, Robin Holt,
> Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, Simon Glendinning, On Being
> With Others: Heidegger -- Derrida - Wittgenstein, and Nigel
> Pleasants, Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A
> Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar.
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> Finally, Vikash Yadav reviews Michael Perelman, The Invention of
> Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of
> Primitive Accumulation.
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