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Thinking Feeling Contemporary Art
| September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Catherine Zuromskis (bio) University of New Mexico zuromski@unm.edu Review of Jennifer Doyle, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. In the summer of 2004, toward the tail end of my graduate studies, I spent six weeks at Cornell University, attending the School of Criticism and Theory. There […]
The Persistence of Realism
| September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Ulka Anjaria (bio) Brandeis Universityuanjaria@brandeis.edu Review of Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism. New York: Verso, 2013. Against the myriad negative definitions of realism advanced by scholars—realism as not naturalism, romance, modernism—Fredric Jameson suggests a dialectical model in which realism emerges by means of its opposites: at one end, from récit, “the […]
“Today I am worth”: K. Lorraine Graham’s Graph
| September 10, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Judith Goldman (bio) The State University of New York at Buffalo judithgo@buffalo.edu In The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato presents “the increasing force of the creditor-debtor relationship” in the world remade by financial capitalism since the late 1970s (23). “Debt acts as a ‘capture,’ ‘predation,’ and ‘extraction’ machine on the whole of […]
Undead-Ends: Zombie Debt/Zombie Theory
| September 10, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Fred Botting (bio) Kingston University F.Botting@kingston.ac.uk Abstract This essay examines the ways in which contemporary economic discourse uses the zombie metaphor. It situates these uses in relation to the current resurgence of zombies in popular fiction and film, and distinguishes zombies from vampires: while the former signifies global debt and stagnation, the latter connotes […]
False Economy
| September 10, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Martin McQuillan (bio) Kingston University M.Mcquillan@kingston.ac.uk Abstract When we speak of the credit crunch of 2008-14, we are really referring to a debt crisis. Far from the aberrant outcome of an economic failure, however, debt is a necessary condition of all economy. This essay opens up the present banking crisis through a reading of […]
The Debt of the Living
| September 2, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Samuel Weber (bio) Northwestern University s-weber@northwestern.edu Abstract Listening to a tape recording of Paul de Man’s Cornell Messenger Lectures on a ride from Paris to Strasbourg, the author found himself unable to determine if de Man was saying “debt” or “death.” This confusion, and Walter Benjamin’s sketch, “Capitalism as Religion,” together provide the point […]
What We Owe to Retroactivity: The Origin and Future of Debt
| September 1, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Simon Morgan Wortham (bio) Kingston University S.Morganwortham@kingston.ac.uk Abstract This essay examines recent writings on debt, notably those by Maurizio Lazzarato and David Graeber. I ask whether Graeber’s Debt: the First 5000 Years is able to resist the insidious logic of a retroactive interpretation of debt that it seeks to overturn. Meanwhile, Lazzarato’s notion of […]
Peripheral Visions
| September 21, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized |
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E. Ann Kaplan, Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze.New York: Routledge, 1996. Looking for the Other responds to the charge that white feminist film theories, especially psychoanalytic ones, neglect issues of race. In this ambitious project, E. Ann Kaplan defends a psychoanalytic approach to the racialized subject […]
If You Build It, They Will Come
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized |
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John Hannigan, Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis.London: Routledge, 1998. Last year I found myself staggering down the very long sidewalk of the Las Vegas Strip in a somewhat disoriented state, an Antipodean on his first trip to the United States. There I was, during the middle […]
New Editor
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized |
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New Co-Editor With this issue, PMC welcomes Jim English, who joins Lisa Brawley as co-editor of the journal. This welcome is more properly a welcome back, as Jim served as review editor from the journal’s founding to 1996. Paula Geyh, who succeeded Jim in that role, will continue to oversee the review section. Assisting us […]
Post-Avant-Gardism: Bob Perelman and the Dialectic of Futural Memory
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized |
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Review of: Bob Perelman, The Future of Memory.New York: Roof Books, 1998. There is a play on words somewhere in the title of Bob Perelman’s recent book of new poems, but what exactly is the substance and import of this wordplay? The Future of Memory: in this title, Perelman is […]
Hip Librarians, Dweeb Chic: Romances of the Archive
| September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized |
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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 […]
The Steorn Exploit and its Spin Doktors, or “Synergie ist der name of das Spiel, my boy!”
| January 23, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 18 - Number 3 - May 2008 |
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John Freeman Department of EnglishUniversity of Detroit Mercyfreemajc@udmercy.edu ex.ploit (ĕk´ sploit, ĭk-sploit´) n. An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat. tr.v. (ĭk-sploit´, ĕk´ sploit) ex.ploit.ed, ex.ploit.ing, ex.ploits To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one’s talents. To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited […]