Thanks, many of them belated, to the following people for helping to make this book: Fredric Jameson, Barbara Herrnstein-Smith, Kenneth Surin, Cathy Davidson, Ariel Dorfman, George Yudice, Edward Said, Ramón Saldivar, Jay Schecter, Denis Wood, Michael Diamond, Lucho Marcial, Kevin Dalton, Valerie Beller, Carlo Tadiar, David “3000GT VR-4” Thompson, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Sara Danius, Stefan Jonsson, Cesare Cesarino, Saree Makdisi, Xudong Zhang, Richard Dienst, Mark Simpson, Michael Hardt, Rebecca Karl, Eleanor Kaufman (tee-hee), Renu Bora, Imre Szeman, Sandy Swanson, Priscilla Lane, Joan McNay, Gail Hammer, Sandy Mills, Jose Muñoz, and Brian Selskey. Also to Vicente Rafael, Sean Cubitt (thank you, Sean!), Christopher Connery, Gopal Balakrishnan, Gail Hershatter, Jennifer Gonzalez, Warren Sack, Jody Greene, Anjali Arondekar, Lucy Burns, Gina Dent, Angela Davis, Jim Clifford, Nobi Nagasawa, Carla Freccero, Rob Wilson, Paul Bové, Donald Pease, Jonathan Arac, Meg Havran, Wimal Dissanayake, Brian Massumi, Michael Hardt, Eyal Amiran, John Unsworth, Steven Shaviro, Sheila Peuse, Nicholas Rhombes, Hugh Culik, Wayne Lesser, Lisa Parks, Jon Simons, W.J.T. Mitchell, James Elkins, Chip Lord, Maggie Morse, Cathy Soussloff, Bill Nichols, Judith Butler, Toni Oliviero, May Joseph, Jim Elledge, Paul Narkunas, Ethan Spigland, Suzie Verderber, Sameetha Agha, Amy Lesen, Miriam Greenberg, Ann Holder, Amy Guggenheim, Edel Garcellano, Manny Garibay, Elmer Borlongan, Ellen Paglinauan, Ivan Zatz-Diaz, Roland Tolentino, Hugh Raffels, Seth Goldstein, Coco Fusco, John Landrigan, Gloriana Russell, Sina Najafi, Edy Mcwilliams, Linda Holiday, Hal Lehrman, mom and dad.
My heartfelt and eternal gratitude to Nicholas Mirzoeff, without whose support this project would not have seen the light of day. And my thanks to Luna and Neferti, who not only inspire but bring joy to my days on Earth.