Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress’s Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until 1964.
Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.
Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, this title attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the significance of his work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory. It provides an analysis of Derrida's attachment to the French language, to Europe, and to European secular thought.
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community-a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy's early proposal for thinking an "inoperative community"-The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchot's text.
The essays in this volume pose critical questions and suggest constructive possibilities regarding the extent to which trinitarian and pluralist discourses can be put into fruitful conversation with one another.