[Hi all, CSL will be back in operation after the summer break, starting next week, please send anything along that you wish to share (articles, news, jobs, reviews etc.) Meanwhile, please see below the contents of a "Special Section" on the current "State of Emergency" Mike Featherstone, Couze Venn and myself have put together for _Theory Culture & Society_. Out in the August 2002 issue, Vol. 19 (4). Please circulate far and wide, thanks. Best wishes, John.] ===================================================== Theory, Culture & Society Volume 19 Number 4 August 2002 Explorations in Critical Social Science Contents Special Section on: State of Emergency John Armitage ... State of Emergency: An Introduction Ulrich Beck ... The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited John Urry ... The Global Complexities of September 11th Michael Dillon ... Network Society, Network-Centric Warfare and the State of Emergency Zygmunt Bauman ... Reconnaissance Wars of the Planetary Frontierland Ryan Bishop and John Phillips ... Manufacturing Emergencies Bryan S Turner ... Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism Couze Venn ...World Dis/order: On Some Fundamental Questions Fred Dallmayr ... Lessons of September 11 Douglas Kellner ... September 11, Social Theory, and Democratic Politics Giuseppe Cocco and Maurizio Lazzarato ... Ruptures within Empire, the Power of Exodus: Interview with Toni Negri Larry N George ... The Pharmacotic War on Terrorism: Cure or Poison for the Body Politic? John O'Neill ... EMPIRE versus EMPIRE: A Post-Communist Manifesto Richard Johnson ... Defending Ways of Life: The (Anti-)Terrorist Rhetorics of Bush and Blair Saskia Sassen ... Governance Hotspots: Challenges We Must Confront in the Post-September 11 World ============================================================= ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************