Category: Volume 10 – Number 1 – September 1999
The Blair Witch Project: Technology, Repression, and the Evisceration of Mimesis
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David Banash Department of English The University of Iowa dbanash@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu The Blair Witch Project.Dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Perf. Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams. Artisan Entertainment, 1999. Given its preposterously low budget, outsider production, and a priori cult status as ludic masterpiece, The Blair Witch Project does not seem […]
Memory, Orality, Literacy, Joyce, and the Imaginary: A Virtual History of Cyberculture
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Donald F. Theall Department of Cultural Studies Trent University dtheall@trentu.ca Darren Tofts and Murray McKeich. Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture. North Ryde, NSW: A 21*C Book published by Interface, 1998. What might more properly be referred to by a more prosaic term such as “the digimediatrix” or “the digi-infomatrix” has through the […]
An Academic Exorcism
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Michael Alexander Chaney Department of English Indiana University, Bloomington maxchi@aol.com Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt, Academic Keywords: A Devil’s Dictionary for Higher Education. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. Academic Keywords is that rare sort of polemic that consoles with humor as it enrages us with personal accounts and persuasive analysis of the […]
Of Tea Parties, Poverty Tours, and Tammany Pow-wows; or, How Mr. Clinton Distanced Us All from Pine Ridge
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H. Kassia Fleisher kass.fleisher@colorado.edu Philip J. Deloria, Playing Indian.New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. The week I sit down to read Philip J. Deloria’s Playing Indian (which Yale UP plans to re-issue in paperback in September), President Clinton takes a “poverty tour.” He stops in rural areas of Kentucky’s Appalachia and Mississippi’s Delta, as […]
Postcolonial Reading
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Mark Sanders Department of English and American Literature Brandeis University Society for the Humanities Cornell University ms248@cornell.edu Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999. Marx could hold The Science of Logic and the Blue Books together; but that was still only […]
Contesting Globalisms: The Transnationalization of U.S. Cultural Studies
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Claudia Sadowski-Smith Department of American Thought and Language Michigan State University cssmith@msu.edu Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, eds. The Cultures of Globalization. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, eds. The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital.Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997. Duke University Press’s recent publication of […]
Friedrich Kittler’s Media Scenes–An Instruction Manual
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Marcel O’Gorman Director Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment Tulane University ogorman@tcs.tulane.edu Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays.Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997. Brigadier Whitehead, a veteran of World War II, is taping his heroic adventures at the “Battle of Palermo” on a reel-to-reel, portable tape recorder. Roving about the cluttered room, he speaks […]
Terrible Beauties: Messianic Time and the Image of Social Redemption in James Cameron’s Titanic
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Patrick McGee Department of English Louisiana State University pmcgee@gateway.net Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation of the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. –Walter Benjamin, “The […]
Theoretical Tailspins: Reading “Alternative” Performance in Spin Magazine
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Patrick McGee Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign finnegan@uiuc.edu Media and commerce do not just cover but help construct music subcultures…. Subcultural capital is itself, in no small sense, a phenomenon of the media. –Sarah Thornton, “Moral Panic, the Media and British Rave” If you only talk to people who […]
Technical Ex-Communication: How a Former Professional Engineer Becomes a Former English Professor
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Joe Amato Department of English University of Colorado at Boulder joe.amato@colorado.edu I. Imagine: Once upon a time, I left the corporate world to join the academic world, thinking the lofty latter would tower above the corruption of corporate complicity. Yup. I really thought that. Imagine. Picture this: you’re seated at a table […]
Love and the Debasement of Being: Irigaray’s Revisions of Lacan and Heidegger
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Krzysztof Ziarek Department of English University of Notre Dame Krzysztof.Ziarek.2@nd.edu In Écrits Lacan remarks: “Of all the undertakings that have been proposed in this century, that of the psychoanalyst is perhaps the loftiest, because his task is to act in our time as a mediator between the man of care and the subject of […]
“This Book Spill Off the Page in All Directions”: What Is the Text of Naked Lunch?
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Carol Loranger English Department Wright State University carol.loranger@wright.edu William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch appears “by wide public agreement” whenever lists of postmodern texts in English are compiled (Connor 129). Its status as a work of art seems clear. But its textual status is less clear: as yet, no effort has been made to establish […]
Editors’ Announcements
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New Co-Editor With this issue, PMC welcomes Jim English, who joins Lisa Brawley as co-editor of the journal. This welcome is more properly a welcome back, as Jim served as review editor from the journal’s founding to 1996. Paula Geyh, who succeeded Jim in that role, will continue to oversee the review section. […]