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Theorizing the contemporary

From the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, including Russell Manning (Monash): Jumping the Jaguar Shark: Seduction and Steve Zissou; Mark S. Roberts (SCC): Brave New World Revisited Again: Resistance, the Unreal and the Real; Mel Salm (Goldsmiths): Mediation, Simulation, and the Large Hadron Collider. Joel Anderson (Utrecht): Situating Axel Honneth in the Frankfurt School Tradition. From Kritikos, Uli Muehe (Kent): Whose Empire? Which Multitude?; and Wayne E. Arnold (Louisiana): American Psycho, Cosmopolis and the Coiffure? Jordan Alexander Stein (Colorado): How To Be a Theory Dinosaur. From Social Text, a series of articles on the "speculative life". From Lacan.com, Jacques Alain Miller on reading a symptom. Theorizing the Contemporary: A forum on Theory from the South: How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa by Jean and John Comaroff. A review of Marx Through Post Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze by Simon Choat. An interview with Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander. A review of Althusser's Lesson by Jacques Ranciere. A review of Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy, ed. Todd May.