This essay, written within a week of the November 2004 U.S. election, was intended as a fog cutter in the miasma of postelection gloom. Finding more than silver linings, it assesses our crucible moment, in the historical and the alchemist sense. We are witnessing a variety of extraparliamentary experiments on the political landscape. What can cultural researchers do in these times? What are our experiments, our own transformations, in this crucible?
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