Monthly Archives: September 2013
Intoxicating Class: Cocaine at the Multiplex
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David Banash Department of English University of Iowa david-banash@uiowa.edu Review of: Traffic. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Perf. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid. USA Films, 2000. Blow.Dir. Ted Demme. Perf. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Paul Reubens, Ray Liotta. New Line Cinema, 2001. Just as the intoxicating sensations of different drugs are […]
Complicating Complexity: Reflections on Writing about Pictures
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Jerzy O. Jura Foreign Languages and Literatures Iowa State University GeorgeOJ@aol.com Review of: James Elkins, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity.New York and London: Routledge, 1999. The Tempest (La tempestad), a 1997 best-selling Spanish novel by Juan Manuel de Prada, not only borrows its title from the […]
The Ecstasy of Speed
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Srdjan Smajic English Department Tulane University ssmajic@tulane.edu Review of: Paul Virilio, A Landscape of Events.Trans. Julie Rose. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Those who are familiar with Paul Virilio’s work on dromology, or the logic and effects of speed, may have noticed by now a paradox in the manner in which he addresses […]
As Radical as Reality Itself
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Helen Grace School of Humanities University of Western Sydney h.grace@uws.edu.au Review of: Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Such imaginings, freed from the constraints of bounded spaces and from the dictates of unilinear time, might dream of becoming, in Lenin’s words, […]
Against Postmodernism, etcetera–A Conversation with Susan Sontag
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Evans Chan evanschan@aol.com This interview took place in late July, 2000 at Susan Sontag’s penthouse apartment in Chelsea on a sunny, tolerably hot day. Just as I entered the building, Sontag’s assistant was returning from some errands and we went up the elevator together. As we opened the apartment door, Sontag was emptying some […]
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Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance 1
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Rita Raley Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara raley@english.ucsb.edu Node 1: Charting The *system* is the art, not the output, not the visual screen, and not the code. I want to let the data express itself in the most beautiful possible way. –Net artist Lisa Jevbratt, in Alex Galloway’s “Perl is […]
Surveillance Sites: Digital Media and the Dual Society in Keith Piper’s Relocating the Remains
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Ashley Dawson English Department College of Staten Island–CUNY University of Iowa ashley-dawson@uiowa.edu This past July, the Tampa, Florida Police Department introduced a computerized surveillance system to augment its efforts to monitor the streets of a downtown business and entertainment district for potential miscreants.1 The system, built by Visionics Corporation of New Jersey and offered […]
Other than Postmodern?–Foucault, Pynchon, Hybridity, Ethics
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Frank Palmeri Department of English University of Miami fpalmeri@miami.edu In what might be understood as tracing a paradigm shift in postmodern culture (Kuhn), practicing an archaeology of the contemporary (Foucault), or reporting on the conditions of current knowledge (Lyotard), this essay suggests that a moment of high postmodernism dominant in the sixties, seventies, and […]
“Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish”: (Re)constructing Body, Genre, and Gender in Feminist Rap
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Suzanne Bost Department of English James Madison University bostsm@jmu.edu Often black people can only say in tone, in nuance, in the set of the mouth, or in the shifting of the eyes what language alone cannot say. Perhaps because of the ambivalence we feel about language, we must put the body itself to […]
The Otherness of Light: Einstein and Levinas
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David Grandy Department of Philosophy Brigham Young University david_grandy@byu.edu In his Downcast Eyes, Martin Jay alerts readers to “the ubiquity of visual metaphors” in Western thought and warns that nonchalance or blindness toward such “will damage our ability to inspect the world outside and introspect the world within” (1). This judgment, Jay quickly notes, […]
Notices
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 12, Number 2, January 2002 |
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12.2 January, 2002 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. Publication Announcements […]
They’re Here, They’re Everywhere
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Andreas Kitzmann Institute for Culture and Communication University of Karlstad, Sweden andreas.kitzmann@kau.se Review of: Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000. Jeffrey Sconce’s Haunted Media confirms a familiar suspicion. There is something lurking within the electronic devices that surround us: something more than just organized […]
Trekking Time with Serres
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Niran Abbas Department of Digital Media Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds niranabbas@hotmail.com Review of: Maria Assad, Reading with Michel Serres: An Encounter with Time. SUNY Press, 1999. Michel Serres is one of the few philosophers who can genuinely lay claim to the title of “specialist generalist” (Dale and Adamson). He […]
Sexuality’s Failure: The Birth of History
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Jason B. Jones School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology jason.jones@lcc.gatech.edu Review of: Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality.Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. Charles Shepherdson, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 2000. In an interview familiar to English readers, “The Confession of the Flesh,” there is a terse exchange […]
Profit and Stealth in the Prison-Industrial Complex
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Alexander H. Pitofsky Department of English Appalachian State University pitofskyah@appstate.edu Review of: Joseph T. Hallinan, Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation. New York: Random House, 2002. In this cogent, wide-ranging study, Joseph Hallinan examines the ways in which the American penal system has been transformed during the last twenty years. […]
A Legacy of Freaks
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Christopher Pizzino Department of Literatures in English Rutgers University pizzino@fas-english.rutgers.edu Review of: Slavoj Zizek, The Fragile Absolute, or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? New York: Verso, 2000. In one of the more arresting moments in The Fragile Absolute, Slavoj Zizek connects the Pauline concept of agape, commonly known as Christian […]
Returning to the Mummy
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Lisa Hopkins School of Cultural Studies Sheffield Hallam University L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk Review of: The Mummy Returns.Dir. Stephen Sommers. Perf. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo. MCA/Universal, 2002. On her arrival at a pre-election Conservative Party rally at the Plymouth Pavilion in May 2002, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cracked a rare joke. […]
Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland
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Matthew Hart Department of English University of Pennsylvania matthart@english.upenn.edu Review of: Irvine Welsh, Glue.New York: Norton, 2002. There’s a passage in Bill Buford’s celebrated account of football violence, Among the Thugs, that is relevant to the question of Irvine Welsh’s Scottishness. Buford is on the Italian island of Sardinia, amidst a rioting crowd […]
The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce
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By Thomas Swiss and Seb Chevrel ENTER: The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce Author’s Note
“What’s It Like There?”: Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo
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Jim Hicks English and Comparative Literature Smith College james@transpan.it Figure 1 “What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities?” — Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts In order to begin, I’ll have to confess: what follows here will be an essay in the early sense of […]
Marxism, Postmodernism, Zizek
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Brian Donahue Department of English Gonzaga University donahue@gonzaga.edu This essay begins in the midst of the ongoing dilemma posed by late-capitalist society and postmodern culture, namely, whether these remain the ultimate horizon of the contemporary world and whether efforts to resist, oppose, represent critically, or propose alternatives to the “cultural dominant” of postmodernism are […]
Inhuman Love: Jane Campion’s The Piano
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Samir Dayal English Department Bentley College sdayal@bentley.edu Introduction: What Does the Woman Want? The release of Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) was almost an epochal event. It arrived to mark the zenith of a phase of extraordinary creativity in Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, […]
Practical Politics at the Limits of Community: The Cases of Affirmative Action and Welfare
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Scott Michaelsen Department of English Michigan State University smichael@pilot.msu.edu and Scott Cutler Shershow Department of English Miami University shershsc@muohio.edu As soon as, through the movement of those forces tending toward a break, revolution appears as something possible, with a possibility that is not abstract, but historically and concretely determined, then in those […]
Notices
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 12, Number 3, May 2002 |
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Volume 12, Number 3 May, 2002 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. […]
Gursky’s Sublime
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Caroline Levine Department of English Rutgers University-Camden levinec@camden.rutgers.edu Review of: Andreas Gursky. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 4 March – 15 May 2001. Exhibition Website Peter Galassi. Andreas Gursky. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001. The modernist avant-garde made a gesture of rejecting popular entertainment and the commodification […]
Computable Culture and the Closure of the Media Paradigm
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William B. Warner Digital Cultures Project Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara warner@english.ucsb.edu Review of: Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media.Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2000. Most scholars of modern media now agree that the shift of symbolic representation to a global digital information network is as systemic and pervasive a […]
Information and the Paradox of Perspicuity
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Samuel Gerald Collins Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Towson University scollins@towson.edu Review of: Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. Reacting against the Boasian study of myths for “historical data,” Claude Levi-Strauss urged anthropologists to look […]
Maintaining the Other
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Kelly Pender Rhetoric and Composition Program English Department Purdue University penderk@purdue.edu Review of: Simon Critchley, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought. London: Verso, 1999. In his latest collection of essays, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity, Simon Critchley extends and modifies the discussion of deconstruction and ethics that he put forward […]
The Deus Ex-Machina
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Juan E. de Castro Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines jdecastr@mines.edu Review of: Jerry Hoeg, Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 2000. During the electoral process of 1990, Alberto Fujimori, a little-known agricultural engineer and academic, stormed the Peruvian […]
Demonstration and Democracy
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Arkady Plotnitsky Theory and Cultural Studies Program Department of English Purdue University aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu Review of: Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999. Scientists are becoming more attentive to and are addressing more openly the relationships between politics and science. (Many scientists have of course–at least […]
Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
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Joseph Tate Department of English University of Washington jtate@u.washington.edu I. Introduction: Test Specimens Figure 1 The blinking icon you see above is called a “test specimen.” Wide-eyed bears with murderous grins, drawn alternately as symmetrical, disembodied heads or frantically sketched, stiff-limbed figures, they punctuate the art of the music group Radiohead, from CD packaging […]
Cannibalism and the Chinese Body Politic: Hermeneutics and Violence in Cross-Cultural Perception
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Carlos Rojas Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures University of Florida crojas@ufl.edu One question that always stymies us–that is, why cannot people eat people? Zhu Yu Rumors of cannibalism began to circulate over the internet during the early months of last year (2001), typically accompanied by graphic photos of a […]
Grand Theory/Grand Tour: Negotiating Samuel Huntington in the Grey Zone of Europe
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Dorothy Barenscott Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory University of British Columbia bridot@shaw.ca In conflicts between civilizations, the question is “What are you?” That is a given that cannot be changed. And as we know, from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Sudan, the wrong answer to that question can mean a […]
Blanchot, Narration, and the Event
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Lars Iyer Philosophical Studies Centre for Knowledge, Science and Society University of Newcastle upon Tyne lars.iyer@ncl.ac.uk Trust the tale, not the teller–but what if the identity of the teller is given in the articulation of the tale? What if there would be not only no tale without a teller, but no teller without […]
Benjamin in Bombay? An Extrapolation
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Rajeev S. Patke Department of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellpatke@nus.edu.sg “I searched around those ruins in vain and all I found was a face engraved on a potsherd and a fragment of a frieze. That is what my poems will be in a thousand years–shards, fragments, the detritus of a […]
On Joseph Tate’s “Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction,” Postmodern Culture 13.1.
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Volume 13, Number 1 September, 2002 The following responses were submitted by PMC readers using regular e-mail or the PMC Reader’s Report form. Not all letters received are published, and published letters may have been edited. Copyright (c) 2002 by the authors, all rights reserved. This text may be used […]
Photo-Performance in Cyberspace: The CD-ROMs of Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment
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Andrew Kimbrough Guangdong University of Foreign Studies andrewmkimbrough@yahoo.com Frozen Palaces. CD-ROM by Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment. Collected on artintact 5, produced by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM), 1999. Buchhandelsausgabe/Trade Edition; and Nightwalks. CD-ROM by Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment. Sheffield, UK: Forced Entertainment, […]
What is Postanarchism “Post”?
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Jesse Cohn English Department Purdue University North Central jcohn@purduenc.edu Saul Newman, From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2001. Newly resurgent anarchist movements, shaking the streets from Seattle to Genoa, are caught in a field of tension between two magnetic poles: Eugene, Oregon, and Plainfield, Vermont. Eugene […]
Hip Librarians, Dweeb Chic: Romances of the Archive
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Suzanne Keen. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001. “Understanding, which separates men from brutes,” writes Suzanne Keen of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, “amounts to an enumeration of debts” (69). This statement asserts that in Spenser’s narrative world, comprehension of a state […]