Monthly Archives: September 2013

      Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to:   pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu   Journal and Book Announcements:   1)Essays in Postmodern Culture 2)Black Ice Books […]

Woodrow B. Hood University of Missouri–Columbia c562611@mizzou1.missouri.edu   Anderson, Laurie. Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective 1972-1992. Performed at the Lied Arts Center, Lawrence Kansas, March 29, 1994.   Performance theorist Philip Auslander has argued that whatever theoretical or empirical value finally attaches to the term “postmodernism,” the contemporary performance artists that we call […]

Ira Lightman University of Norwich I.Lightman@uea.Ac.Uk   Edwards, Tim. Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity, and Feminism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1994.   This book doesn’t quarrel too much with anyone, but then it doesn’t leave itself much room for polemic, so thorough is its survey of essays and books about and by […]

Gregory Ulmer English Department University of Florida at Gainesville glulmer@nervm.Nerdc.Ufl.Edu   Perforations 5 (1994): “Bodies, Dreams, Technologies.” Public Domain, Inc., POB 8899, Atlanta, GA. 31106-0899. INFO@PD.ORG   Described as a media-kit journal of theory, technology, and art, Perforations is just one facet of Public Domain’s activities. Jim Demmers, Robert Cheatham, and Chea Prince (PD’s coordinating […]

Brent Wood Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture Trent University bwood@trentu.ca   Conley, Verena Andermatt, ed., on behalf of Miami Theory Collective. Rethinking Technologies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.   Rethinking Technologies is a collection of twelve essays inspired (at least nominally so) by Miami University’s 1990 colloquium “Questioning Technologies.” The […]

Vitaly Chernetsky Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program University of Pennsylvania vchernet@mail.sas.upenn.edu   Lahusen, Thomas, and Gene Kuperman, eds. Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.   In an essay recently published in October (no. 63, Winter 1993), Hal Foster uses a suggestive metaphor for the study of contemporary artistic […]

Jim Hicks English Department University of Massachusetts, Boston hicks@umbsky.cc.umb.edu   Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.   Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text. A Commentary to Hugh’s Didascalicon. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1993.   In his 1985 recension of the debate on postmodernism, Gianni Vattimo […]

Gregory Ulmer English Department University of Florida, Gainesville glulmer@nervm.Nerdc.Ufl.Edu   An earlier version of this work was published in The Florida Landscape: Revisited, a catalog for an exhibition curated by Christoph Gerozissis, Lakeland, Florida: The Polk Museum, 1992. An electronic predecessor was included, with the assistance of Anthony Rue, in a cultural studies World-Wide Web […]

Eric Selinger Department of English George Washington University SELINGER@gwis.circ.gwu.edu   Are the pleasures of experimental poetry important? 1 William Wordsworth certainly thought so. The “experiment” of Lyrical Ballads was published, he tells his readers in the “Preface,” in the hope that it “might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical […]

  Steven Helmling Department of English University of Deleware helmling@brahms.udel.edu   Always historicize!   –Fredric Jameson   Accounts of Derrida stress his work’s diversity, and handle it in various ways; but none that I know of narrativizes this diversity, whether to relate it to its historical period, or to consider it as a corpus with […]

Alice Fulton Department of English University of Michigan alice.fulton@um.cc.umich.edu   ==   It might mean immersion, that sign I’ve used as title, the sign I call a bride after the recessive threads in lace == the stitches forming deferential space around the firm design. It’s the unconsidered mortar between the silo’s bricks == never admired […]

Geoffrey Sharpless Department of English University of Pennsylvania   For boys follow one another in herds like sheep, for good or evil; they hate thinking and rarely have any settled principles. . . . it is the leading boys for the time being who give the tone to all the rest, and make the School […]

Ann Larabee Dept. of American Thought and Language Michigan State University 21798ANL@msu.edu     As in a play, the nation rises again Reborn of grief and ready to seek the stars; Remembering the shuttle, forgetting the loom.   Howard Nemerov On an Occasion of National Mourning   Lifepod   In 1993, in the wake of […]

Valerie Fulton Department of English Colorado State University   “In the twenty-fourth century, there will be no hunger, and there will be no greed.”   –Gene Roddenberry, to actor Jonathan Frakes   Following in the footsteps of another primetime television drama, Northern Exposure, which has featured both Franz Kafka and Federico Fellini in recent programming, […]

Jonathan Beller Literature Department Duke University     The exact development of the concept of capital [is] necessary, because it is the basic concept of modern political economy, just as capital itself, of which it is the abstract reflected image, is the basis of bourgeois society.   –Karl Marx, Grundrisse   Cinema 3: Towards a […]