Category: Volume 11 – Number 1 – September 2000
Notices
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Volume 11, Number1 September, 2000 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. Publication Announcements Web Guide to Complex Systems The Robot […]
Glamorama Vanitas: Bret Easton Ellis’s Postmodern Allegory
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Sheli Ayers Department of English University of California at Santa Barbara sayers@calarts.edu Review of: Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. In his New York Times review, Daniel Mendelsohn calls Glamorama “a bloated, stultifyingly repetitive, overhyped book” full of vacuous characters “who talk to one another and about themselves in […]
Selling Surveillance: Privacy, Anonymity, and VTV
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David Banash Department of English University of Iowa david-banash@uiowa.edu Review of: Survivor and Big Brother. CBS, 2000. Andy Warhol once said that the perfect picture would be “one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous” (qtd. in Pratt 269). It seems that the invention of inexpensive web-based telecasting technologies […]
Metaphor in the Raw
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Michael Sinding Department of English McMaster University sindinm@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999. This audacious project based in cognitive linguistics began its career as a tentative collaboration between a linguist and a philosopher, with Metaphors […]
Reconstructing Southern Literature
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Andrew Hoberek Department of English University of Missouri-Columbia hobereka@missouri.edu Review of: Michael Kreyling, Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998, and Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. At first glance, nothing seems less postmodern than southern literature, a body of writing simultaneously […]
The Real Happens
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Jason B. Jones Department of English Emory University jbjones@emory.edu Review of: Alenka Zupancic, Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan. New York: Verso, 2000. The point of Lacan’s identification of the Real with the impossible is not simply that the Real is some Thing that is impossible to happen. On the contrary, the whole […]
The Masculine Mystique
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Richard Kaye Department of English Hunter College, CUNY RKaye43645@aol.com Review of: Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. When former Republican senator and one-time presidential aspirant Robert Dole appeared on television last year extolling the benefits of the […]
Of Bugs and Rats: Cyber-Cleanliness, Cyber-Squalor, and the Fantasy-Spaces of Informational Globalization
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Terry Harpold and Kavita Philip Department of English University of Florida tharpold@english.ufl.edu Just So Stories Three hundred million souls,… swarming on the body of India, like so many worms on a rotten, stinking carcase,–this is the picture concerning us, which naturally presents itself to the English official! –Swami Vivekananda, East and West […]
Becoming as Creative Involution?: Contextualizing Deleuze and Guattari’s Biophilosophy
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Mark Hansen English Department Princeton University mbhansen@princeton.edu As several recent critical studies have conclusively demonstrated, biological research and theory form a central reference point in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy.1 From his early major work culminating in Difference and Repetition of 1968, through his collaboration with Félix Guattari on Capitalism and Schizophrenia (especially, A Thousand Plateaus […]
Flogging a Dead Language: Identity Politics, Sex, and the Freak Reader in Acker’s Don Quixote
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Nicola Pitchford English Department Fordham University pitchford@fordham.edu Pastiche is central to the resistant politics of Kathy Acker’s writing–yet she would appear to agree with Fredric Jameson’s influential critique of pastiche as “the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language” (17). Her 1986 novel Don Quixote is all about having to speak […]
Derrida in the World: Space and Post-Deconstructive Textual Analysis
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Daniel Punday Department of English and Philosophy Purdue University Calumet pundaydj@axp.calumet.purdue.edu “It is therefore the game of the world that must be first thought; before attempting to understand all the forms of play in the world.” —Of Grammatology In the wake of deconstruction, critics have sought some way to reconcile poststructural textual […]
Ballard’s Crash-Body
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Paul Youngquist Department of English Penn State University pby1@psu.edu When I heard the crash on the hiway I knew what it was from the start I went down to the scene of destruction And a picture was stamped on my heart. I didn’t hear nobody pray, dear brother, I didn’t hear nobody pray; […]