Category: Volume 18 – Number 3 – May 2008
“fuga”
| September 5, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Keith Feldman (bio)Department of English, University of Washingtonfeldmank@u.washington.edu Review of: Edward W. Said, On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain. New York: Pantheon, 2006. How should we think the analytical purchase of the family of English terms derived from the Latin root fuga? How might we productively pose the anachronistic musical form […]
The Color of Shame: Reading Kathryn Bond Stockton’s Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
| September 5, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Amy Abugo Ongiri (bio)Department of English, University of Floridaaongiri@english.ufl.edu Review of: Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer.” Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006. Kathryn Bond Stockton’s Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” takes shame as a productive site of inquiry about identities that are produced by repeated public […]
The Double Helix and Other Social Structures
| September 5, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Elizabeth Freudenthal (bio)School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technologyelizabeth.freudenthal@lcc.gatech.edu Review of: Judith Roof, The Poetics of DNA. Minneapolis, MN: U Minnesota P, 2007. In 2000 the Human Genome Project, a consortium of privately and publicly funded researchers, drafted the first full sequence of the DNA in the human genome. Since that […]
Bionanomedia Expression
| September 5, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Chris Funkhouser (bio)Department of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technologychristopher.t.funkhouser@njit.edu Review of: Media Poetry: An International Anthology, ed. Eduardo Kac. Chicago: Intellect Books, 2007, and Kac, Hodibis Potax. Ivry-sur-Seine (France): Édition Action Poétique, 2007. Poetry liberates language from ordinary constraints. Media Poetry is a paramount agent in pushing language into a new and […]
Tracking the Field
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Susanne E. Hall (bio)Thompson Writing Program, Duke UniversitySusanne.Hall@duke.edu Review of: Joe Amato, Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture. Iowa UP, 2006. Joe Amato’s Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture is a book about a great many things, but it is most successfully a book about the slings and arrows of […]
Subjunctivity
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Michael D. Snediker (bio)Department of English, Queen’s Universitysnediker@queensu.ca Review of: Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, intimacies. U of Chicago Press, 2008. If these past decades of ruminating on J.L. Austin have rendered I do a paradigm of performative utterance, one of the actions with which this performative arguably coincides—beyond conjugal contract, beyond ostensible entrapment […]
AncesTree
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George Kuchar (bio)San Francisco Art Instituteg.kuchar@worldnet.att.net The very early days of television, when puppets on strings ruled the airwaves, were quite essential to my stature as a fallen angel (a filmmaker who fell into hell via a CIRCUIT CITY basket). I don’t always shop there, as sometimes I like the BEST BUY stores best […]
Secret Agency in Mainstream Postmodern Cinema
| January 30, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Neal KingInterdisciplinary StudiesVirginia Polytechnic and Institute and State Universitynmking@vt.edu Among the most studied films of the last few decades are those that descend from the mid-century fiction of Philip Dick and his contemporaries, including Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). These authors wrote during the Cold War scandal of the apparent […]
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 […]
Bomb Media, 1953-1964
| January 17, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Tristan AbbottDepartment of English Language and LiteratureUniversity of Northern Iowatristan.abbott@uni.edu About halfway through Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street (1953), a stool pigeon named Moe (Thelma Ritter) is about to get shot. She knows it, too; she had been warned that the man who just forced his way into her room is a communist agent […]