Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The immediate references here are to Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000; Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multititude, trans., Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito and Andrea Casson, New York: Semiotext(e); and Christian Marrazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy, trans. Gregory Conti, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007; and to my own books, The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle, Hanover: Dartmouth College Press and UPNE, 2006; and Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System, Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006. 2. See George Soros, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, New York: Public Affairs, 2008, for his quasi-Lacanian if intellectually naïve views on what would be the economic Real. Randy Martin's brilliant book, An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, explores the socio-economic changes foisted upon persons by the emergent society of risk as well as the economic function of ostensibly humanistic categories including “race.” 3. See Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, London: Reaktion Books, 2000. 4. See The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, NY: Semiotext(e), 2009. 5. For more on this issue of inscription on the flesh of the global–social body, see my essay, “Paying Attention,” in Cabinet 24 (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2007). The essay was republished for Documenta XII republication available at http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=187 (accessed 17 December 2009). Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan BellerJonathan Beller is at Columbia University