Aftershocks of the NewThe beginning of this century has brought with it a host of assumptions about the newness of our technologies, globalized economies, and transnational media practices. Our own time is a period marked by experiences of fragmentation, sensation, and shock. The essays here are joined by a common concern to chart another side to modernityprecisely after the shock of the newwhen the new ceases to be shocking, and when the extraordinary and the sensational