Monthly Archives: July 2015
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 […]
Notes on Contributors
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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John Beer is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University. The author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, he has published literary and dramatic criticism in the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Review of Contemporary Literature, and […]
To Be Black And Muslim: Struggling for Freedom
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Amy Abugo Ongiri (bio) University of Florida aongiri@ufl.edu A review of Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. Sohail Daulatzai’s Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America ambitiously addresses a highly impactful topic in African American culture […]
Exchange Policy
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Susanne E. Hall (bio) California Institute of Technology seh@hss.caltech.edu A review of Paula Rabinowitz and Cristina Giorcelli, Exchanging Clothes. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. “Who are you wearing today?” The question is an awards show cliché, asked of every female celebrity making her way down a red carpet. The repeated asking and answering of […]
Anti-Vitalism: Kaufman’s Deleuze of Inertia
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Claire Colebrook (bio) Penn State University ccolebrook@me.com A review of Eleanor Kaufman, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. There is quite a lot one might say, and that has already been said, about Gilles Deleuze. In the wake of the first wave of general guides and overviews, there are […]
Sex and Revolution, Inc
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Sarah Brouillette (bio) Carleton University sarah_brouillette@carleton.ca A review of Loren Glass, Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2013. In Counterculture Colophon Loren Glass argues that in the 1950s and 60s Grove Press was singularly important in bringing into the mainstream writing that was once considered […]
from I Wear Long Hair
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: This one’s black. As outside chance. Also bigger and unruly. I don’t want to be locked up! I can’t quit thinking tone Notebook hair mood Doubt or teeth. Truth under fingernail. Tighter interval Dirt under Don’t eat that! But I am […]
“my Romantic letter i.e. e-mail. I.e. epistolary novel”: the “translit” of Hildebrand Pam Dick
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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John Beer (bio) Portland State University chrysostom2@gmail.com Judith Goldman (bio) University at Buffalo judithgo@buffalo.edu In her audacious and accomplished 2009 debut Delinquent, transgressor extraordinaire Mina Pam Dick lovingly travestied the lingoes and conceptual frameworks of analytic philosophy, particularly the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, even as she demonstrated an adept’s awareness of the intricacies of identity […]
Queering Žižek
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Chris Coffman (bio) University of Alaska Fairbanks cecoffman@alaska.edu Abstract This essay tracks Slavoj Žižek’s reading of Jacques Lacan in order to expose and critique Žižek’s continued investment in a heterosexist account of sexual difference. Attending to Žižek’s politicized recasting of Lacan’s argument that one can traverse—and thereby alter—the fundamental fantasy that structures subjectivity, this essay argues […]
On the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Amit S. Rai (bio) Queen Mary, University of London a.rai@qmul.ac.uk Abstract This essay uses media assemblage analysis to pose ontological questions of the embodiment of mobile phone technologies. The name for this throughout much of South Asia is jugaad, meaning a pragmatic workaround. In other words, this essay analyzes mobile telephony in India by […]
From the Cold Earth: BP’s Broken Well, Streaming Live
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Herschel Farbman (bio) University of California, Irvine hfarbman@uci.edu Abstract This article looks at the peculiar way the live streaming video of BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico connected its viewer, in the spring and summer of 2010, to a part of the earth where he or she could not be—where nobody […]
Lyotard’s Infancy: A Debt that Persists
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Kirsten Locke (bio) University of Auckland k.locke@auckland.ac.nz Abstract This paper explores the notion of infancy in the work of Jean-François Lyotard as a state of unadorned openness and receptiveness to sensorial affect. It identifies debt and reparation as the conceptual thread running throughout his exploration. The purpose of the paper is to explore the […]
The Biopolitical Film (A Nietzschean Paradigm)
| July 7, 2015 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 1, September 2012 |
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Nitzan Lebovic Lehigh University nil210@lehigh.edu Abstract Biopolitical cinema, exemplified by Michael Winterbottom, Roland Emmerich, and others, has questioned the ability of representative democracy to handle a catastrophic situation. Beyond that, biopolitical film has undermined the moral and political legitimacy of the democratic system as a whole. This article examines the formative moments of biopolitics: its […]