Category: Volume 10 – Number 3 – May 2000
Notices
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Volume 10, Number 3 May, 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. […]
The Openness of an Immanent Temporality
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David Pagano English Department Old Dominion University dpagano@vwc.edu E. A. Grosz, ed. Becomings: Explorations of Time, Memory, and Futures. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999. Elizabeth Grosz is one of our most able theoretical writers, combining clarity of articulation with originality, perspicacity, and sophistication of thought. Those who follow the sometimes mind-wrenching discourse on time […]
Limited Affinities
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Kevin Marzahl English and Cultural Studies Indiana University kmarzahl@indiana.edu Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, eds. The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics.Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1999. Two sets of affinities underlie most contemporary American poetic practices. On the one hand, there is a surrealist genealogy which would include the New York […]
Periodizing Postmodernsim
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Timothy Gray English Department College of Staten Island, CUNY gray@postbox.csi.cuny.edu Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. The Queer Sixties. New York: Routledge, 1999. Stephen Miller. The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance.Durham: Duke UP, 1999. When Fredric Jameson tried his hand at periodizing the sixties some years ago, he was engaging in an exercise millions of […]
In the Post: or, the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Simulation
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Brian Baker School of Education and the Humanities North East Wales Institute of Higher Education BakerB@newi.ac.uk Review of: Heaven, an exhibition of postmodern art curated by Dorit Le Vitte Harten. The Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, 30 July 1999-17 October 1999, and the Tate Gallery to the North, Liverpool, U.K., 9 December 1999-27 February 2000. […]
Specters of the Real
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David Anshen Department of Comparative Literature SUNY Stony Brook Danshen@ic.sunysb.edu Michael Sprinker, ed. Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s “Specters of Marx. “New York: Verso, 1999. The whole point, however is that Marx… did not confine himself to ‘economic theory’ in the ordinary sense of the term, that, while explaining the structure […]
Disciplining Culture
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Genevieve Abravanel English Department Duke University ga3@duke.edu John Carlos Rowe, ed. “Culture” and the Problem of the Disciplines. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. This collection of essays emerged out of four years of discussion and dispute among humanities scholars at the Critical Theory Institute of UC Irvine. What the contributors, including David Lloyd, […]
A Prosody of Space / Non-Linear Time
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Jim Rosenberg jr@amanue.com Part I: Background: Linear Prosody1 Dimensions of Inequality Among Syllables Prosody in the English language proceeds from the axiom that not all syllables are created equal; many effects in prosody derive from the time-plot of these inequalities along various dimensions. The most well known of these is the familiar stress-degree, but […]
Tracing Calculation [Calque Calcul] Between Nicolas Abraham and Jacques Derrida
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Lawrence Johnson University of Queensland lojoj@bigpond.com To calculate the loss–is this the challenge that Nicolas Abraham has given to Jacques Derrida? Between 1959 and 1975, the year of Abraham’s unexpected death, they were close friends, sharing what Elisabeth Roudinesco describes as “a marginal position in relation to the dominant philosophical discourse of the day, […]
Failure and the Sublime: Fredric Jameson’s Writing in the ’80s
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@udel.edu “History is what hurts,” writes Fredric Jameson in an oft-quoted phrase that many readers seem to take as a motto for his work as a whole. If Jameson matters, it is to the presumably minority audience for whom the anodyne declaration of the “end of […]
Hieros Gamos: Typology and the Fate of Passion
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James D. Faubion Department of Anthropology Rice University jdf@rice.edu Are we simply who we choose to be? We know well enough the poles between which answers to this question have tended to oscillate for at least the past century. Determinists of various stripes–biological, psychological, sociological–have insisted that we are not. Decisionists (of whom Sartre, […]
Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema
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Evans Chan evanschan@aol.com As Hong Kong’s anti-climactic 1997 decolonization came and went, the British (post)colony experienced a tumultuous decade–it was discovered by the international media, by Hollywood, and finally by the post-modernists. Maybe the question put by a contemporary academic Sepulveda to a latter-day Bartholomew de Las Casas should be: “Are they True […]