Table Of Contents:
Notes on contributors viii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: theory's nine lives 1(16)

Jane Elliott

Derek Attridge
Part I Assessing the field 17(56)

1 Philosophy after theory: transdisciplinarity and the new 19(15)

Peter Osborne

2 Theory as a research programme 鈥?the very idea 34(15)

Cary Wolfe

3 Theory after critical theory 49(13)

William Rasch

4 Extinct theory 62(11)

Claire Colebrook
Part II Between theory and practice: judgement, will, potentiality 73(60)

5 Perception attack: the force to own time 75(15)

Brian Massumi

6 The will of the people: dialectical voluntarism and the subject of politics 90(15)

Peter Hallward

7 The persistence of hope: critical theory and enduring in late liberalism 105(15)

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

8 The practice of judgement: Hannah Arendt's 'Copernican revolution' 120(13)

Linda M.G. Zerilli
Part III Rethinking the politics of representation 133(46)

9 When reflexivity becomes porn: mutations of a modernist theoretical practice 135(14)

Rey Chow

10 The canny subaltern 149(14)

Eva Cherniaysky

11 Theory after postcolonial theory: rethinking the work of mimesis 163(16)

Simon Gikandi
Part IV Biopolitics and ethics 179(42)

12 After life: swarms, demons and the antinomies of immanence 181(13)

Eugene Thacker

13 Inclining the subject: ethics, alterity and natality 194(11)

Adriana Cavarero

14 The person and human life 205(16)

Roberto Esposito
Part V Renewing the aesthetic 221(42)

15 The wrong turn of aesthetics 223(14)

Henry Staten

16 Literature after theory, or: the intellective turn 237(12)

Laurent Dubreuil

17 The liberal aesthetic 249(14)

Amanda Anderson
Part VI Philosophy after theory 263(48)

18 The arche-materiality of time: deconstruction, evolution and speculative materialism 265(13)

Martin Hagglund

19 Concepts, objects, gems 278(16)

Ray Brassier

20 Pharmacology of spirit: and that which makes life worth living 294(17)

Bernard Stiegler
Index 311