"When words like evidence and reality begin to seem naked without quotation marks around them, it's hard not to wonder if we aren't simply playing into the hands of those who have the most to hide."

"If the telecommunications and entertainment industries (and countless consumers) are now enthralled with all things mobile, the pieces collected here underscore that mobility is first and foremost a social phenomenon, one with long and troubled histories."

"Many of the beliefs that once seemed most deeply etched in our national psyche — ideologies of freedom and privacy, for example — may be the very things that must be asserted most vigorously in the decades to come."

"Some pieces in this issue -- including those by Eric Faden, Perry Hoberman, and Donald Hoffman -- blur past and present, real and make believe, theory and art, playfully tweaking the borders of the user's perception."

"She asks probing questions about each video, designed to focus our attention on the larger political and social webs of meaning that engender each excerpt's production and circulation."

"This issue of Vectors spins uneasily around the conjoined axis of memory and history without attempting the impossible - and arguably undesirable - task of reconciling the two."