Category: Volume 23 – Number 2 – January 2013
The Limits of Performing Cage: Ultra-red’s SILENT|LISTEN1
July 28, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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G Douglas Barrett (bio) gdouglasbarrett@gmail.com Abstract Ultra-red’s SILENT|LISTEN (2005-06) consists of a series of events in which statements addressing the AIDS epidemic are presented alongside Cage’s silent composition 4′33″ (1952). Ultra-red’s intervention refers to activist collective ACT UP’s militantly anti-homophobic slogan, “SILENCE = DEATH,” while implicating the cultural politics of Cagean silence, 4′33″’scontested […]
Notes on Contributors
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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G Douglas Barrett G Douglas Barrett is an artist, musician, and writer. His work is exhibited, performed, and published throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. The recipient of a 2013 Franklin Furnace Fund award for his record project Two Transcriptions/Ode to Schoenberg, he also received a recent DAAD grant to Berlin. Barrett’s essays have been published […]
The Tragedy of Forms
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Daniel Stout (bio) University of Mississippidstout@olemiss.edu Review of Franco Moretti, The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature. New York: Verso, 2013. “There are,” the biologist Richard Dawkins wrote, “many different ways of being alive,” but there are “vastly more ways of being dead” (qtd. in “Graphs” 52).1 Franco Moretti refers to that remark […]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: David Bowie Is and the Stream of Warm Impermanence
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Martin Murray (bio) London Metropolitan Universitym.murray@londonmet.ac.uk A review of David Bowie Is, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK: 23 Mar. – 11 Aug. 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada: 25 Sept. – 27 Nov. 2013 Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil: 28 Jan. – 21 Apr. 2014 Museum of Contemporary Art […]
The Walking Dead: Neurology and the Limits of Psychoanalysis
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Melanie Doherty (bio) Wesleyan Collegemdoherty@wesleyancollege.edu A Review of Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded. Bronx: Fordham UP, 2012. In The New Wounded, Catherine Malabou seeks to reconcile advances in neurology and a material understanding of the brain with traditional psychoanalysis. In order to lay the groundwork for a potential revision of psychoanalysis, Malabou […]
Forms of Cruelty
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Eugenio Di Stefano (bio) University of Nebraska at Omahaedistefano@unomaha.edu A review of Jean Franco, Cruel Modernity. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. In this book Jean Franco maps out the intersection of cruelty and modernity in Latin America by extending the conversation beyond a “narrow European perspective” (4) that centers on the Holocaust and the […]
Posthegemony in Times of the Pink Tide
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Bécquer Seguín (bio) Cornell Universitybm389@cornell.edu In the closing paragraph of a recent essay that asks “What’s Left for Latin American Cultural Studies?,” critic Sophia McClennen addresses the future trajectories of North American academics and their counterpart cultural practitioners in the region. For McClennen, the rise of Latin America’s marea rosada (pink tide) […]
Stats of Exception: Watchmen and Nixon’s NSC
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Paul Youngquist (bio) University of Coloradopaul.youngquist@gmail.com Abstract This essay approaches the serial comic Watchmen as a meditation on contemporary governance. Watchmen contrasts a Cold War sovereignty of nuclear annihilation with its distribution among a band of masked vigilantes. A parallel account appears in The Tower Commission Report, published near the end of the comic’s […]
Shopping for the Real: Gender and Consumption in the Critical Reception of DeLillo’s White Noise
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Sally Robinson (bio) Texas A&M Universitysallyr@tamu.edu Abstract This article connects the critical reception of White Noise to a history of anti-consumerist critique that relies on and promotes an understanding of consumer culture as destroying authenticity and individual autonomy through its “feminizing” effects. Arguing that critics of DeLillo’s novel imagine the crisis of postmodern culture as […]
The Perils of the “Digital Humanities”: New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 2, January 2013 |
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Tom Eyers (bio) Duquesne Universityeyerst@duq.edu Abstract This essay situates the rise of the so-called digital humanities within earlier theoretical trends and methodologies. Taking as its focus the impact of digital techniques on literary studies, the essay argues that advocates for the new digital methods often lapse into an uncritical positivism at the moment that they […]