Volume 05, Number 3, May 1995

Articles

Madness and Automation: On Institutionalization

Phoebe Sengers

The “Mired Sublime” of Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulou

Paul Naylor

“Song of the Andoumboulou: 23”

Nathaniel Mackey

Towards an Indexical Criticism

Joseph Arsenault and Tony Brinkley

“The Lamentation”

Virginia Hooper

Cultural Trauma and the “Timeless Burst”: Pynchon’s Revision of Nostalgia in Vineland

James Berger

Signifyin(g) on Stein: The Revisionist Poetics of Harryette Mullen and Leslie Scalapino

Elisabeth Frost

Stupid Undergrounds

Paul Mann

Popular Culture Column

Cyberspace, Capitalism, and Encoded Criminality: The Iconography of Theme Park

Jeffrey Cass

Review Essays

“Demystifying Nationalism: Dubravka Ugresic and the Situation of the Writer in (Ex-)Yugoslavia” Review of Dubravka Ugresic Fording the Stream of Consciousness and In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories

Tatjana Pavlovic

“Techno-Communities” Review of Steven Jones, ed., Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community

Mark Poster

“Intermedia ’95” Review of the 10th Annual International Conference and Exposition on Multimedia and CD-ROM

Wendy Anson

“Rethinking Agency” Review of Patricia Mann Micropolitics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era

Rebecca Chung

“Presenting Paradise” Review of Elizabeth Buck Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai’i

Myles Breen

“New Political Journalism” Review of Richard Ben Cramer What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Tom Benson

“The Ethics of Ethnocentrism” Review of Tzvetan Todorov On Human Diversity

Ivan Strenski

Letters