Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011

Works

Listening to Nothing in Particular: Boredom and Contemporary Experimental Music

eldritch Priest

Hospitality of the Mouth and the Homophonic Kiss: David Melnick’s Men in Aïda

Sean Reynolds

Under the Bus: A Rhetorical Reading of Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union”

Laura Jones

Material Deviance: Theorizing Queer Objecthood

Scott Herring

Popular Culture Column

How To Be a Theory Dinosaur

Jordan Alexander Stein

Reviews

Technology Talks Back: On Communication, Contemporary Art, and the New Museum Exhibition

Ioana Literat

Junk Culture and the Post-Genomic Age

Allison Carruth

De Man Today: Unreassuring Help

Christopher D. Morris