Monthly Archives: September 2020

Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein’s Pitch of Poetry, new essays, was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book of poems is Recalculating (Chicago, 2013). In 2010, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems. Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he […]

Sharon Willis (bio)University of Rochester A review of White, Patricia. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms. Duke UP, 2015. Patricia White’s ambitious project sets itself the daunting task of tracking fast-moving targets. Its anchoring terms— “women’s cinema” and “world cinema” —remain in constant flux as a result of their uneven interactions. In a real […]

Timothy Holland (bio)Emory University A review of Szendy, Peter. Apocalypse Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World. Translated by Will Bishop, Fordham UP, 2015. As Samuel Weber observes in the foreword to Peter Szendy’s Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World, few things are more timely and fascinating than the spectacular destruction of […]

David Coughlan (bio)University of Limerick A Review of Luter, Matthew. Understanding Jonathan Lethem. U of South Carolina P, 2015. Just the second monograph published on the work of Jonathan Lethem, following James Peacock’s 2012 volume, Matthew Luter’s Understanding Jonathan Lethem is issued as part of the University of South Carolina’s Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. […]

Louise Burchill (bio)University of Melbourne A Review of Lippit, Akira Mizuta. Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift. U of Minnesota P, 2016. That there is no sustained reflection on cinema in Jacques Derrida’s corpus, despite its consideration of photography, painting, drawing, architecture and the subject of vision and visuality per se—as well, […]

Charles Bernstein (bio)University of Pennsylvania On September 5, 2017, a few days after John Ashbery died, Le Monde published an obituary for him by Olivier Brossard: “Pour le poète américain, l’écriture était ouverture, fuite ou fugue, le refus d’une identité ou d’un poème qui soient clos ou définis à jamais”: For this American poet, writing […]

Phillip Lobo (bio)University of Southern California Abstract This paper examines an exemplary piece of Japanese postmodern cinema, Sekiguchi Gen’s Survive Style 5+ (2004), in relation to the ethical quandaries and tensions that emerged around the practice of advertising during the so-called “creative revolution” in Japan. Drawing on the concept of the fetish in Marxist and […]

Robert Meister (bio)University of California, Santa Cruz Abstract This essay accounts for the production of specifically financial products such as hedges, focusing on how and why their liquidity adds value through a critical re-reading of Marx’s account of relative surplus value in the production of commodities. It then considers the political implications of its restatement […]

Simon Glezos (bio)University of Victoria Abstract As new technologies accelerate the pace of the world, the human body is exposed to hitherto unexperienced velocities. Will the body acquire new powers and opportunities in consequence, or will we find it torn apart by this new speed? This article considers three possible types of encounter—destructive, diminishing, and […]