In this issue:

• Contents: 129 Contents Page

• Article: The cyborg mother

  Jaimie Smith-Windsor

• Commentary: It’s not the culture, stupid

  Interpreting the US election

  - Ken Hirschkop

• Commentary: Patriotism as paranoia

  Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble

  - Barry Schwabsky

• Obituary: Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004

  David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood

• Reviews: 129 Reviews

  Ben Watson, Andrew Goffey, Michael Halewood, Andrew Fisher and Christian Kerslake

• Conference Report: 7th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Heidelberg, 23–26 September 2004

  Alastair Morgan