Popular music and postmodern theory / Recoginizng a 'human-thing': cyborgs, robots and replicants in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? and Ridley Scott's Blade runner / Melancholy meanings: architecture, postmodernity and philosophy / 'The World is indeed a fabulous tale': Yve Lomax - a practice around photography / Televising hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's TV Dante / A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's Three poems / Reading The Satanic verses / The Totalizing quest of meaning