Category: Volume 1 – Number 1 – September 1990
Anouncements & Advertisements
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu MLA SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT Special Session #344, Friday 28 December, 1:45-3:00 PM Grand Ballroom […]
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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What follows is a written exchange among the editors about the contents of the first issue of Postmodern Culture. It is called a “postface” because it is meant to be read after the other items in the issue; we hope it will serve as a preface to discussion among other readers. […]
Vacation Notes: Haute-Tech in the Hautes-Montagnes
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Jim English University of Pennsylvania Even to a fan like me, the Tour de France seems a pretty weird sporting event. By the standards of contemporary spectator sport, there is something almost laughable in a three-week-long bicycle race that is so elaborately staged and involves so much apparatus and so many people, yet offers […]
Voicing the Neonew
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Susan M. Schultz University of Hawaii-Manoa “Postmodern Poetries: Jerome J. McGann Guest -Edits an Anthology of Language Poets From North America and the United Kingdom,”Verse 7:1 (Spring, 1990): 6-73. Postmodern poetry, especially Language poetry, is coming in from the cold. Not so long ago, postmodern poets published their work exclusively in small journals […]
Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Neil Larsen Northeastern University My remarks here1 concern the following topics of critical discussion and debate: 1) the ideological character of postmodernism as both a philosophical standpoint and as a set of political objectives and strategies; 2) the development within a broadly postmodernist theoretical framework of a trend advocating a critique of certain postmodern […]
The Ideology of Postmodern Music and Left Politics
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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John Beverley University of Pittsburgh This article appeared initially in the British journal Critical Quarterly 31.1 (Spring, 1989). I’m grateful to its editors for permission to reproduce it here, and in particular to Colin MacCabe for suggesting the idea in the first place. I’ve added a few minor corrections and updates. […]
Dead Doll Humility
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Kathy Acker IN ANY SOCIETY BASED ON CLASS, HUMILIATION IS A POLITICAL REALITY. HUMILIATION IS ONE METHOD BY WHICH POLITICAL POWER IS TRANSFORMED INTO SOCIAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. THE PERSONAL INTERIORIZATION OF THE PRACTICE OF HUMILIATION IS CALLED HUMILITY. CAPITOL IS AN ARTIST WHO MAKES DOLLS. MAKES, DAMAGES, TRANSFORMS, SMASHES. ONE OF HER DOLLS IS […]
Feeding the Transcendent Body
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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George Yudice CUNY, Hunter College To eat is to appropriate by destruction; it is at the same time to be filled up with a certain being…. When we eat we do not limit ourselves to knowing certain qualities of this being through taste; by tasting them we appropriate them. Taste is assimilation…. The synthetic […]
Marx: The Video (A Politics of Revolting Bodies)
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Laura Kipnis University of Wisconsin, Madison A note on the mise-en-scene: There are large projections –stills, film clips, etc.–behind the action (referred to in the text as KEYS) in many scenes. There is also a Greek chorus of DRAG QUEENS (or DQs) who pop in and out of the action (or are KEYED over […]
Postmodern Blackness
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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bell hooks Oberlin College Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary even when, having been accused of lacking concrete relevance, they call attention to and appropriate the experience of “difference” and “otherness” in order to provide themselves with oppositional political meaning, legitimacy, and immediacy. Very few African-American intellectuals have talked or written about postmodernism. Recently at […]
Hacking Away at the Counterculture
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Andrew Ross Princeton University Ever since the viral attack engineered in November of 1988 by Cornell University hacker Robert Morris on the national network system Internet, which includes the Pentagon’s ARPAnet data exchange network, the nation’s high-tech ideologues and spin doctors have been locked in debate, trying to make ethical and economic sense of […]
Preface
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 1, September 1990 |
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Postmodern Culture is an electronic journal of interdisciplinary studies. We hope to open the discussion of postmodernism to a wide audience, and to new and different participants. We feel that the electronic text is more amenable to revision, and that it fosters conversation more than printed publications can. Postmodern Culture can accommodate, and […]