List of contributors. Introduction. Queering Society and Self. Living lesbian battering (G. Giorgio). The queer university: imagining the postmodern academy (W.G. Tierney). Self, Society and the Postmodern Community. JFK in black and white: the Kennedy assassination, Dallas and collective guilt (R. Bradley). The heart and other organs of darkness (A. Shelton). Internet, community, and the technological way of being (A. Northcott). What's in a name? Language, power, and a "post-historical" critique of the patronymic (C.F. Springwood, C.L. Springwood). Cognitive mapping and ethical practice: the novels of Richard Powers (S. Miklaucic). Milling at the margins: a critique of the decentered subject - a mystory (C.M. Sabik). Shvitzing/Kibitzing: bodies, communication, and "communion" in a men's locker room (C.N. Poulos). Reading the Cinematic Society. Postmodern knights in celluloid armor: the photojournalist as contemporary cultural hero (A. Peace). Messing: information, liminality, dread (N. Kohn). The search for lost fear: the social world of the horror fan in terms of symbolic interactionism and cultural studies (R. Winter). Evangelical Christians' responses to popular culture: towards an evaluative schema (T. Rendelman).