In This Issue AIDS: Remains Editors’ Note Introduction  Introduction Richard Block, Kathleen Chapman, and Mia Du Plessis Articles AIDS Remains: An Opening Mia Du Plessis Layers of Disaster Anna Blume Pose in the COVID Crisis: Reflections on Watching Pandemics through the Small Screen Tobias Wofford Mourning Becomes Electric: The Disappearing Act of AIDS Richard Block Follow My Trace Like That of AIDS: A Digression Alexander GarcÍa DÜttmann Blood/Loss: Toward a Queer Poetics of Embodied Memory (a Love Story) Keiko Lane Show Me the Color of Your Flowers: American AIDS Poetry Today Brian Reed Against Vanishing: Cookie Mueller and Nan Goldin Kathleen Chapman and Mia Du Plessis Bad Blood: Visual Rhetorics of HIV/AIDS in the Contemporary American South Christopher Garland Kafka K.’s Debt: The Economy of The Trial Wayne Stables A Dyad on Comedy Reading Jokes Scott Cutler Shershow Did You Hear the One about Žižek and the Aristocrats?: Thinking through an Abject Joke and Its Perverse Retelling Louis Kaplan