Table of Contents for Volume 39, number 3 Fall 2012

Wlad Godzich / Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)

E. Khayyat / The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler

Intervention

Anthony Bogues / And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination

Arif Dirlik / Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity

Emmanuel Alloa / The Inorganic Community: Hypotheses on Literary Communism in Novalis, Benjamin, and Blanchot

Henry Veggian / Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

Bradley J. Fest / The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Intervention

Lindsay Waters / The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from the Renaissance How to Circumnavigate the Globe

Richard Purcell / The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?

Soyica Diggs Colbert / “When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World