Monthly Archives: September 2013

      Volume 14, Number 2 January, 2004 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. […]

Charles Sheaffer Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota Shea0016@umn.edu   Review of: Gregory Ulmer, Internet Invention. New York: Pearson, 2003.   Gregory Ulmer’s Internet Invention can be accurately described as a composition handbook for students working in an increasingly visual culture–provided that one follows Ulmer in understanding the newfound prevalence of […]

Daniel Worden Department of English & American Literature Brandeis University dworden@brandeis.edu   Review of: Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity.Cambridge: MIT P, 2003.   The first book in his “Short Circuits” series from MIT Press, Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity strives to […]

Hillary L. Chute Department of English Rutgers University Kinny8@hotmail.com   Review of: Luce Irigaray, Between East and West: From Singularity to Community.New York: Columbia UP, 2002.   Many contemporary feminist thinkers reject the accusation, most forcefully leveled by Monique Plaza in 1978, that Luce Irigaray’s theories of the feminine are naturalist. Irigaray’s conception of “the […]

Stuart J. Murray Department of Rhetoric University of California, Berkeley sjmurray@socrates.berkeley.edu   Review of: Mark Poster, What’s the Matter with the Internet?.Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001.   There is surely a double entendre at work in the title of Mark Poster’s book, What’s the Matter with the Internet?. In this matter, it is not […]

Jeffrey T. Nealon Department of English Pennsylvania State University jxn8@psu.edu   Review of: John McGowan, Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics.Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2002.   Are we so confident in our current formulations that we would not value the person who comes along to challenge them? More likely than not, that […]

Arkady Plotnitsky Theory and Cultural Studies Program Purdue University aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu   Review of: Gould, Stephen J. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002.   We often complain about long books, and, at nearly 1500 pages, Stephen Jay Gould’s magnum opus is about as long as one could find in the sciences. But then, […]

George Dillon Department of English University of Washington dillon@u.washington.edu   In the last 40 years, numbers of writers and artists have come to see Walter Benjamin as a pioneer who blazed a new way of writing historical and cultural critique. The drafts of and reflections upon his Arcades Project (Passagen-Werk) have been the subject of […]

Brian Reed Department of English University of Washington, Seattle bmreed@u.washington.edu   In Poetry On & Off the Page(1998), Marjorie Perloff argues that the era of free verse may be drawing to a close. She examines recent work by a number of avant-garde poets–among them Caroline Bergvall, Karen Mac Cormack, Susan Howe, Maggie O’Sullivan, Joan Retallack, […]

Eric Hayot Department of English University of Arizona ehayot@u.arizona.edu   Edward Wesp Department of English University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee edwesp@uwm.edu   A lot had to happen between 1915, when the U.S. Supreme Court first ruled that cinema was not “speech” and was thus unprotected by the First Amendment, and 1982, when the Court decided […]

David Banash Department of English Western Illinois University D-Banash@wiu.edu   I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue   –William S. Burroughs (“Art of Fiction” 29)   Cutting Up Consumer Culture: “Big Daddy”   In her article “The Invention of Collage,” Marjorie Perloff begins the story of collage at […]

    Volume 15, Number 2 January, 2005   Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Works and Days 43/44 Capitalizing on Play: The Politics of Computer Gaming  

Heather Love Department of English University of Pennsylvania loveh@english.upenn.edu   Review of: Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia.Durham: Duke UP, 2003.   Back in 1979, Robert Hass wrote, “all the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.” He seemed to be referring to […]

Andrew Strombeck Department of English University of California, Davis amstrombeck@ucdavis.edu   Review of: Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files.New York: Routledge, 2000.   In the post-9/11 world, cultural paranoia and its number-one star, conspiracy theory, have reemerged with a vigor unseen since their heyday in the fifties. The Bush Administration’s anti-terrorism rhetoric […]

Chris McGahan English Department Yeshiva University clm7458@nyu.edu   Review of: McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004; and Vincent Mosco, The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace.Cambridge: MIT P, 2004.   Anyone with an interest in political and cultural developments in and around cyberspace would welcome new books by McKenzie Wark and Vincent […]

Jason Read Philosophy Department Colby College jread@colby.edu   Review of: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire.New York: Penguin, 2004. Where Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s first book, Empire, defined an object of critique–the book’s title is also their name for the global order they seek to analyze–their […]

Charles Altieri Department of English University of California, Berkeley altieri@uclink4.berkeley.edu and Rei Terada Departments of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine terada@uci.edu   Review of: Robert Smithson. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 12 Sep.-13 Dec. 2005.   We saw this show together. We saw it differently. We enjoyed those differences and wanted […]