Volume 10, Number 1, September 1999

Editors’ Announcements

New Co-Editor

Lisa Brawley and James F. English

PMC Essay Prize Winners

Lisa Brawley and James F. English

Articles

“This Book Spill Off the Page in All Directions”: What Is the Text of Naked Lunch?

Carol Loranger

Love and the Debasement of Being: Irigaray’s Revisions of Lacan and Heidegger

Krzysztof Ziarek

Technical Ex-Communication: How a Former Professional Engineer Becomes a Former English Professor

Joe Amato

Theoretical Tailspins: Reading “Alternative” Performance in Spin Magazine

Jim Finnegan

Terrible Beauties: Messianic Time and the Image of Social Redemption in James Cameron’s Titanic

Patrick McGee

Review Essay

“Friedrich Kittler’s Media Scenes–An Instruction Manual” A review of Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays

Marcel O’Gorman

Reviews

“Contesting Globalisms: The Transnationalization of U.S. Cultural Studies” A review of Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, The Cultures of Globalization and Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

“Postcolonial Reading” A review of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Mark Sanders

“Of Tea Parties, Poverty Tours, and Tammany Pow-wows; or, How Mr. Clinton Distanced Us All from Pine Ridge” A review of Philip J. Deloria, Playing Indian

H. Kassia Fleisher

“An Academic Exorcism” A review of Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt, Academic Keywords: A Devil’s Dictionary

Michael Alexander Chaney

“Memory, Orality, Literacy, Joyce, and the Imaginary: A Virtual History of Cyberculture” A review of Darren Tofts and Murray McKeich, Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture

Donald F. Theall

“The Blair Witch Project: Technology, Repression, and the Evisceration of Mimesis” A review of The Blair Witch Project

David Banash