Category: Volume 10 – Number 2 – January 2000
The Truth About Pina Bausch: Nature and Fantasy in Carnations
November 25, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Lynn Houston Department of English Arizona State University lynnmhouston@yahoo.com Pina Bausch, Carnations. Perf. Tanztheater Wuppertal. Gammage Auditorium, Tempe. 22 October 1999. Freud’s elision of body-mind also suggests that the private mental space accorded to “the self” on modern models of identity, the space of fantasy, is produced to some extent by the body’s […]
Notices
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Volume 10, Number 2 January, 2000 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. […]
Utopian Ironies
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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David Schuermer Department of English University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale dschuer@wko.com Andrew Ross, The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. In reviewing Andrew Ross’s Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town, I am reminded […]
Near Collisions: Rhetorical Cultural Studies or a Cultural Rhetorical Studies?
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Brad Lucas Department of English University of Nevada, Reno brad@unr.edu Thomas Rosteck, ed. At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies. New York: Guilford, 1999. The thirteen essays in Thomas Rosteck’s At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies discuss connections between the practices that constitute rhetorical studies and those that constitute cultural […]
The Critical Idiom of Postmodernity and Its Contributions to an Understanding of Complexity
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Matthew Abraham Philosophy and Literature Program Purdue University MAbra68114@aol.com Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems. London: Routledge, 1998. Paul Cilliers’s Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems attempts to bring together developments in neuroscience, linguistics, logic, computer science, the philosophy of science, and poststructural theory in an effort to locate unifying themes […]
Past, Present and Future: New Historicism versus Cultural Materialism
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Jürgen Pieters Department of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory University of Ghent, Belgium jurgen.pieters@rug.ac.be John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. New York: MacMillan, 1998. One of the most conspicuous trends in the recent history of contemporary literary and cultural theory–a field dominated since the early eighties by the so-called “historical turn”–has been […]
Veiled and Revealed
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Nezih Erdogan Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Bilkent University nezih@bilkent.edu.tr Meyda Yegenoglu, Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism.London and New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. When feminist studies, as it developed in the Anglo-American world, turned to Third World countries, it produced a discourse which put an emphasis on the situation […]
Brecht Our (Post-) Contemporary
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@odin.english.udel.edu Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method.London and New York: Verso, 1998. Fredric Jameson’s oeuvre is daunting for almost every possible reason. Besides its sheer bulk, the difficulty of its themes, and its notoriously demanding prose style, there’s the vast scope of the cultural materials it […]
Grotesque Caricature: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut as the Allegory of Its Own Reception
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Stefan Mattessich Department of English Loyola Marymount University blzbub@msn.com Eyes Wide Shut. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael. Perf. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Sydney Pollack. Warner Brothers, 1999. Such was the fashion, such the human being; the men were like the paintings of the day; society had taken […]
Otherness
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Tamise Van Pelt Department of English and Philosophy Idaho State University vantamis@isu.edu As half of a signifying binary, the “Other” is a term with a rich and lengthy philosophical history dating at least from Plato’s Sophist, in which the Stranger participates in a dialogue on the ontological problems of being and non-being, of the […]
Stop Making Sense: Fuck ’em and Their Law (… It’s Only I and O but I Like It…)
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Bernd Herzogenrath Bernd.Herzogenrath@post.rwth-aachen.de Indeed, you may find that these things are all rather silly. But logic is always a bit silly. If one does not go to the root of the childish, one is inevitably precipitated into stupidity, as can be shown by innumerable examples… –Lacan, Four Fundamental Concepts 209 Techno […]
Dada Photomontage and net.art Sitemaps
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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George Dillon Department of English University of Washington dillon@u.washington.edu We find ourselves–we with our various discourses–in the midst of a new medium. Which does not, of course, mean we are all experiencing the same thing. HTML hypertext seems to have about as much intrinsic character as tofu. It lends itself to many deployments; people […]
Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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N. Katherine Hayles English Department University of California Los Angeles HAYLES@humnet.ucla.edu Five hundred years of print have made the conventions of the book transparent to us.1 It takes something like Sol Lewitt’s Squares with the Sides and Corners Torn Off to bring into visibility again the convention of the page.2The pages display black squares, […]
Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000 |
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Sianne Ngai Department of English and American Literature and Language Harvard University sngai@fas.harvard.edu There is stupid being in every one. There is stupid being in every one in their living. Stupid being in one is often not stupid thinking or stupid acting. It very often is hard to know it in knowing any one. […]