1. Introduction: 911—A Public Emergency? –Randy Martin and
Ella Shohat
2. Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani–Stefano Harney
3. Lyric in a Time of Violence–Meena Alexander
4. The Poet in the Public Sphere: A Conversation with Meena Alexander–Lopamudra Basu
5. Exit–Sandrine Nicoletta
6. Cloud Bench–Yigal Nizri
7. The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies–Ban Wang
8. Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge–Ella Shohat
9. Feminisms in the Aftermath of September 11–Zillah Eisenstein
10. Homeland Insecurities: Racial Violence the Day after September 11–Muneer Ahmad
11. Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots–Jasbir K. Puar and Amit S. Rai
12. Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror–Rosalind C. Morris
13. Explanation and Exoneration, or What We Can Hear–Judith Butler
14. The New International of Decent Feelings–Fred Moten