Category: Volume 16 – Number 1 – September 2005
Economy of Faith
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Andrew Saldino Department of Philosophy and Religion Clemson University asaldin@clemson.edu Review of: Mark C. Taylor. Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. In Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption, Mark C. Taylor turns his attention to the topic of money […]
On Poetic Curiosity
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David Caplan Department of English Ohio Wesleyan University dmcaplan@owu.edu A response to Lori Emerson, Demystifying the Digital, Re-animating the Book: A Digital Poetics As I write this response on my office computer, three uneven stacks of books threaten to tumble across my desk. On top of the piles perch Jack Spicer’s The Collected […]
Demystifying the Digital, Re-animating the Book: A Digital Poetics
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Lori Emerson Department of English State University of New York, Buffalo lemerson@buffalo.edu Review of: Loss Glazier. Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2003. There is no single epigraph that can suitably frame this review of Loss Glazier’s Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm. Loss Glazier’s 2003 collection of poetry is simply too variable, straddling […]
Fear of Falling Sideways: Alexander Payne’s Rhetoric of Class
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Derek Nystrom Department of English McGill University derek.nystrom@mcgill.ca Review of: Sideways. Dir. Alexander Payne. Perf. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh. Fox Searchlight, 2004. In a moment that we are meant to take as a sign that its protagonist has hit rock bottom, Sideways (2004) puts failed novelist and wine […]
Wittgenstein’s Legacy: Metagrammar, Meaning, and Ordinary Language
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David Herman Department of English Ohio State University herman.145@osu.edu Review of: Walter Jost, Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism.Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004. Ambitious in scope, richly integrative, and extensively researched, this study demonstrates its author’s familiarity with ideas from multiple fields of inquiry, including classical as well as modern rhetoric, […]
The Ubiquity of Culture
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Jeffrey Williams English Department Carnegie Mellon University jwill@andrew.cmu.edu Review essay: Francis Mulhern, Culture/Metaculture (London: Routledge, 2000) and Terry Eagleton, The Idea of Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). If you are building a house, the first thing you do is probably not to plant flowers. You dig the basement, pour the foundation, frame the building, […]
To Write Within Situations of Contradiction: An Introduction to the Cross-Genre Writings of Carla Harryman
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Laura Hinton Department of English City College of New York laurahinton@earthlink.net One of the most innovative and sometimes overlooked founding writers of the West Coast Language Poetry school is Carla Harryman, author of twelve books of poetry and cross-genre writing that includes poet’s-prose, plays, and experimental essays. Her short classic pieces in collections like […]
Stiegler Reading Derrida: The Prosthesis of Deconstruction in Technics
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Ben Roberts Media Studies University of Bradford b.l.roberts@bradford.ac.uk Between Derrida and Stiegler In his massive multi-volume work, Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler explores a history of technics as epiphylogenesis–the preservation in technical objects of epigenetic experience. Epiphylogenesis marks for Stiegler a break with genetic evolution (which cannot preserve the lessons of experience), a break […]
Duchamp’s “Luggage Physics”: Art on the Move
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Dalia Judovitz Department of French and Italian Emory University djudovi@emory.edu Besides, you know, all my work, literally and figuratively, fits into a valise . . . –Marcel Duchamp, 16 Dec. 1954 “Well, it had to come. How long will it last?” wondered Marcel Duchamp in a letter to Katherine Dreier about the onset […]
“Love Music, Hate Racism”: The Cultural Politics of the Rock Against Racism Campaigns, 1976-1981
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Ashley Dawson Department of English College of Staten Island, City University of New York adawson@gc.cuny.edu In his classic study of post-1945 youth subcultures, Dick Hebdige suggests that Black British popular culture served as a template for defiant white working class subcultural practices and styles (29). The kind of affiliatory cultural politics that Hebdige describes […]
Fog of War: What Yet Remains
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Timothy Donovan English Department University of North Florida tdonovan@unf.edu skimball@unf.edu jlsmith@unf.edu On 8 October 2004, Jacques Derrida died. We are now left with these remains. We write as mediums, like cane-tappers trying to record under the influence of a Derrida that remains within us and outside us. As we write, we face the […]