ABSTRACT
Readers of this important and agenda-setting issue of Angelaki are confronted by a number of key questions concerning the scientific and social status of the concepts of complexity, materialism, difference, and the process of subject formation. How has the historical context of advanced capitalism altered our understanding of embodiment, complexity, and interrelationality? How has materialism changed in response to the different understandings of "matter' induced by the current scientific advances? How do they affect specifically bodily or corporeal materialism? How do the new notions of "matter" affect critiques of biopower on the one hand and new forms of vital politics on the other? How does the practice of the political shift in response to these? And how is the political and theoretical project of sexual difference inscribed in this new context?
