Category: Volume 20 – Number 2 – January 2010
Notes on Contributors
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David Banash is an Associate Professor of English at Western Illinois University, where he teaches courses in contemporary literature, film, and popular culture. His essays and reviews have appeared in Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, Iowa Review, Paradoxa, Postmodern Culture, Reconstruction, Science Fiction Studies, and Utopian Studies. He is currently at work on […]
“That’s just, like, your opinion, man”: Irony, Abiding, Achievement, and Lebowski
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Brian Wall (bio)Binghamton Universitybwall@binghamton.edu Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe, eds. The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2009. Print. The terms in which the reception of The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies played out in the comments to Dave Itzkoff’s New York Times review in December of 2010 rehearsed a number of […]
Recollecting Violence: Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory
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Lissa Skitolsky (bio)Susquehanna Universityskitolsky@susqu.edu Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009. In defending uniqueness, I am not simultaneously endorsing the injudicious claim that the Holocaust is more evil than alternative occurrences of extensive and systematic persecution, organized violence, and mass death. The character of […]
When is a Book Grievable?
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Diane Enns (bio)McMaster Universityennsd@mcmaster.ca Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? New York: Verso, 2009. I began reading Judith Butler’s Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? in a café in Sarajevo—rather appropriate, so I thought, given that a mere fifteen years ago this city was under siege, the scars and grief quite […]
From Copyright to Copia: Marcus Boon’s Buddhist Ontology of Copying
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David Banash (bio)Western Illinois Universityd-banash@wiu.edu Marcus Boon, In Praise of Copying. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010. Marcus Boon’s In Praise of Copying is a radical attempt to overturn the conceptual and practical privileges accorded to those copies we call “originals,” and in the process to reconceptualize all creative activity in terms of imitation, repetition, or more […]
From “Sparrow,” from The Poems Of Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Brandon Brown (bio)vigilo@hotmail.com 1 Every book has a beginning, and this is this book’s beginning. It starts with a question and then it answers the question. The question is to whom should I dedicate my new little fun book nugget? That’s kind of a disclaimer, saying that the book is lepidum, or “fun.” […]
On Brandon Brown, “Sparrow,” from The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Judith Goldman (bio)University of Chicagojgoldman1@uchicago.edu Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,rumoresque senum severiorumomnes unius aestimemus assis!soles occidere et redire possunt;nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,nox est perpetua una dormienda.da mi basia mille, deinde centum;dein mille altera, dein secunda centum;deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,aut ne quis malus […]
Coloring Between the Lines of Punk and Hardcore: From Absence to Black Punk Power
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David Ensminger (bio)Lee Collegedavidae43@hotmail.com Abstract For three decades, African Americans have often been depicted in the popular press and in independent media as embodying the legacy of a hip hop nation, which the media would signify as an urban, misogynist, and materialistic musical genre and lifestyle. Such representation diminishes or negates, through absence or scant coverage, […]
Lovecraft through Deleuzio-Guattarian Gates
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Patricia MacCormack (bio)Anglia Ruskin UniversityPatricia.Maccormack@anglia.ac.uk Abstract This essay picks up on Deleuze and Guattari’s brief invocation of the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Deleuze and Guattari’s project to develop a philosophy of sorcery as a mode of thought that gestures toward becoming-imperceptible is considered by reading examples in Lovecraft’s “cosmic horror” of the terrors and revolutions available […]
Basic Instinct: A Response to Ramadanovic
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Judith Roof (bio)Rice Universityroof@rice.edu In his timely critique of revisionist kinship studies, Petar Ramadanovic identifies “taboo” as the sticking point where the potentially liberatory value of such discourses disappears. Ramadanovic sets out to rethink taboo, hypothesizing that the “function of the taboo” is to operate as “a fundamental rule that makes sexuality” and “can, of […]
The Non-Meaning of Incest or, How Natural Culture Is
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Petar Ramadanovic (bio)University of New Hampshirepetarr@unh.edu Abstract Using the theory of kinship as an example, this essay argues that the dominant understanding of cultural construction is inadequate. The author argues that recent cultural theory lacks an account of the unconscious, that recent psychoanalytic thought lacks a theory of kinship, and that both are in fact necessary […]
Sex Without Friction: the Limits of Multi-Mediated Human Subjectivity in Cheang Shu Lea’s Tech-Porn
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Jian Chen (bio)New York UniversityJian.Chen@nyu.edu Abstract Sex Without Friction focuses on Cheang Shu Lea’s science fiction porno I.K.U. (2000) as provocation to think through the limitations of social and cultural criticism that is premised on mediation. Directed by Taiwan-born digital nomad Cheang, multimedia film I.K.U. features a gender-morphing human clone, programmed to collect sexual experiences for […]