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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments / Quinby, Lee -- Introduction. Threshold of Revelation -- 1. Skeptical Revelations of an American Feminist on Patmos -- 2. Teaching on the Threshold: Angels and Skeptics -- 3. Genealogical Skepticism: How Theory Confronts Millennialism -- 4. Millennialist Morality and the Problem of Chastity -- 5. Coercive Purity: The Dangerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity -- 6. Feeling Jezebel: Exposing Apocalyptic Gender Panic and Other Con Games -- Addendum: Circuits of Revelation -- 7. Programmed Perfection, Technoppression, and Cyborg Flesh -- Epilogue: Skepticism as a Way of Life -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Examines how Hardt & Negri (2000) incorporate particular features of millennialism in the grand narrative of Empire. This millennialism is contended to undermine their work in the key arenas of feminist allegiance & Foucauldian power analysis. In this light, a Foucauldian genealogical feminism is advocated as a counter to millennialism. The millennialism in Empire is first exposed, & then the problematic dualism of Good vs Evil running through millennialism & often centering on gender & sexuality is addressed, arguing that Empire's form of millennialism is misogynistic & retains a romanticized form of violence that celebrates militancy & barbarianism. In this light, Hardt & Negri's gender-blindness is critiqued for essentially reproducing a masked masculinist perspective. Attention turns to the logic behind a dialectical maneuver in Empire that pushes the text toward unity & totality. Fault is found with Hardt & Negri's employment of Foucault's biopower & in their casting of the phrase "life itself" into all-inclusive either/or logic rife with millennialist rhetoric. Amartya Sen's (1999) theorization is considered a better way of confronting the variegated & conflicting forces of power in play. J. Zendejas

Reads Kathryn Bigelow's film, Strange Days (1995), as a provocation to thinking about the relation between cyborgian technology & democratic society at the end of the millennium. Most current commentary on technology flows toward apocalyptic or utopian visions of society; however, the film is interpreted here as a problematization of techno-oppression, defined as an authoritarian configuration of power, truth, & morality not synonymous with technology, but rather, it is conceived of as an apocalyptic use of technology. Focus is on its ideological power to morph history. While the power of techno-oppression is detailed, it is argued that it is not its technologies or techniques that are evil, but the oppressive knowledge-power relations in which they are employed. It is contended that the power techniques of techno-oppression give rise to possibilities for resistance that call for a critical cultural practice of struggles against the deployments of its power configurations. D. M. Smith

Ein Schwerpunktheft zum Thema Umwelt und Entwicklung mit Beiträgen über die Konferenz von Rio, einem Interview mit einem Delegationsteilnehmer aus Simbabwe, der Vorstellung von staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen Projekten zur Förderung von umweltverträglichem (sustainable) Ackerbau und sparsamem Ressourcenverbrauch. Des weiteren werden das Green Belt Movement aus Kenia vorgestellt, die Ursachen für die Dürreperiode im südlichen Afrika thematisiert und die Verursacher des Ozonlochs benannt. (DÜI-Spl)