Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown): Scary Monsters: Hybrids, Mashups, and Other Illegitimate Children. From Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, a special issue on Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope. Bringing Heaven to Earth: Zoe Bran describes the role of a shaman in contemporary Western society. Jamais Cascio on how the future isn't what it used to be. Stephen Farthing explores the implosion of sexuality and its increasing absorption into our society within an existential paradigm of socially mediated defence against anxiety of ultimate concerns. From Wired, Robert Capps on why black market entrepreneurs matter to the world economy. Are we on information overload? An interview with David Weinberger, author of Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (and more and more and more and more). Keep on Rockin' in the Free World: How the Velvet Underground and Vaclav Havel built a blueprint for toppling totalitarians and other censors.
