"The times we are living in seem all too real and, against all expectations, the best evidence seems to lie in a few dozen grainy digital photographs e-mailed from the other side of the world."

"As we finalized preparations for publication of this installment of Vectors, the relevance of the issue's theme - mobility - was cast into surreal relief by the events leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina."

"There is very little in today's culture — except perhaps for the copyright of Disney characters — that can be counted on to survive the 21st century."

"Other projects turn technology back upon itself to help us see what is usually hidden from sight, what things are not allowed - in Laura Marks' term - to 'unfold' into our sensory perception and into our knowledge."

"Meanwhile, critical race and postcolonial scholars have highlighted how certain tendencies within poststructuralist theory simultaneously respond to and marginalize blackness."