Introduction : the interface of political theory and cultural studies / Jodi dean -- Warring maneuvers -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly -- The subject of true feeling : pain, privacy, and politics / Lauren Berlant -- Cultural politics : political theory and the foundations of democratic order / Barbara Cruikshank -- Academic politics and social change / George Lipsitz -- Shifting culture -- The song remains the same : communitarianism's cultural politics / Mark Reinhardt -- The governmentality of discussion / Paul A. Passavant -- The cultural turn in marxism / Judith Grant -- Action or distraction? cultural studies in the United States / Paul Apostolidis -- Generating politics -- Democracy and national fantasy : reflections on the Statue of Liberty / Linda Zerilli -- Imagined immunities / Priscilla Wald -- Race and the romance of American nationalism in Martin Luther King, Norman Mailer, and James Baldwin / George Shulman -- Making of the unwanted colonies : (un)imagining desire / Aida A. Hozic -- Haunting affiliations -- Real American dreams (can be nightmares) / Kathleen Stewart -- Wild things / Thomas L. Dumm -- The politics of the "family" / Michael J. Shapiro -- Declarations of independence / Jodi Dean.