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Issue Five: REASON INCorporated. Part One: Nonreflective rationality and Cyborg body politics: Becoming skilled in doing what’s appropriate: the nonreflective rationality of ethical expertise, An Interview with Hubert Dreyfus, Isaac Newton died a virgin, poetry by Michael Caulfield; plastic heart, black box, iron cage: instrument rationality and the Artificial Heart Experiment, essay by Thomas Strong; Representing bounded bodies, review essay by Susan Mains. Part Two: ‘As if the world were split in two’: Contesting dualisms: The end of killing, the law of the Mother, and the non-exclusionary Other, essay by Dianne Rothleder; Reconceptualizing masculinity, review essay by Christine James; The faggot’s claim to name, or deconstructing the breeding game, poetry by Beth Harris; The represented and the ‘real’: Economy, postmodernity and postOrientalist research, an interview with Timothy Mitchell. Part Three: Saving rationality by listening to its critics? Method as the embodiment of reason, essay by Bryan Crable; Cultch, poetry by Carol Denson; Theory and rationality: extending the Foucault/Habermas debate, review essay by Arnold Farr; Cultural theory and intellectual politics, interview with Russel Berman. Post script: I was just getting started when, poetry by Michael Caulfield. Issue Six: reVisioning Justice. Recent convergences in popular and academic discussions of legality and the legal system reveal numerous contradictions in current views of justice. What kinds of rationality are called for in the reconstruction of justice? What are the politics, representations, economy or scale of different conceptions of justice? Are ‘human rights’ a European export? How are they related to local practices? How are different forms of justice inscribed or tattooed on the body’s surface through disciplinary and other practices? How is justice constructed in regard to racial, gender, age, and other social categories? Our next issue will address these questions and others posed by contributors and interviewers. Announcing CULTSTUD-L: a listserv devoted to cultural studies. This is an unmoderated list that aims to provide a forum for a wide discussion of current issues in cultural studies. It is also meant as a place to post relevant calls for
papers, syllabi, conference information and announcements of cultural-studies-related publications.
