Discourse Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2011 (The Meaning of "Life")

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.

The Meaning of "Life"
Guest Editor: Louis-Georges Schwartz

Calculating Risk: Barebacking, the Queer Male Subject, and the De/formation of Identity Politics
David Oscar Harvey 

"Dream is Destiny": Waking Life and the Digital Aesthetics
Maja Manojlovic 

Memoirs of a Geisha: The Material Poesis of Temporality
Barbara M. Kennedy 

The Postracial Imagination: Gattaca's Imperfect Science
Olivia Banner 

A Life of Matter and Death: Inorganic Life in Worringer, Deleuze, and Guattari
Joshua Dittrich 

Life in Excess: Insurrection and Expenditure in Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty
Nathan Gorelick