Volume 03, Number 1, September 1992

Guest Editor’s Introduction

Larry McCaffery

Articles

Obsession

Kathy Acker

The Titles Sequence from The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

Robert Coover

Five Days of Bleeding

Ricardo Cruz

an excerpt from Birdland

Rikki Ducornet

Dressed to Kill Yourself

Rob Hardin

Attempts on Life

Annemarie Kemeny

Great Breakthroughs in Darkness (Being, Early Entries From The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography)

Marc Laidlaw

Incarnations of the Murderer

William T. Vollmann

Popular Culture Column

Brekdown

John Tranter

PMC Talk

Two Threads: Cladistics and Cut-Ups (Excerpted from the Discussion Group PMC-TALK@NCSUVM, (7/92-8/92)

Review Essays

“Bargaincounterculturalcapitalism: Gear and Writhing at the New Music Seminar” A review of the New Music Seminar and New York Nights

Bill Millard

“The Black (W)hole of Bataille: A Genealogy of Postmodernism?” A review of The Accursed Share vols. 2 & 3, by Georges Bataille and Heterology and the Postmodern by Julian Pefanis

Russell Potter

“Post-Literacy” A review of Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing With Computers, Myron Tuman, ed.

Alan Aycock

“Postmodern Promos” A review of A Poetics by Charles Bernstein and Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media by Marjorie Perloff.

Susan Schultz

“La Condition McGann” A review of The Textual Condition by Jerome McGann

Kevin Kiernan

“Postmodern Woolf” A review of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself by Pamela L. Caughie

Rebecca Stephens

Notices