Category: Volume 12 – Number 1 – September 2001
Notices
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12.1 September, 2001 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 glosszine.org Text–Special Issue 2 Guy Debord’s The Society of […]
Art After Ahab
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Jeffrey Insko Department of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst jinsko@english.umass.edu Review of: And God Created Great Whales.Conceived and Composed by Rinde Eckert. Performed by Rinde Eckert and Nora Cole. Directed by David Schweizer. The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker, New York, NY. 9 September 2000. There’s a clever irony in the very premise […]
Utopia in the City
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Piotr Gwiazda English Department University of Miami, Coral Gables pgwiazda@mail.as.miami.edu Review of: “Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World.” Special Exhibition at the New York Public Library. October 2000-January 2001. Exhibition website: <http://www.nypl.org/utopia>. A few years ago, I told an English professor (who regularly teaches Thomas More’s Utopia in […]
Intoxicating Class: Cocaine at the Multiplex
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David Banash Department of English University of Iowa david-banash@uiowa.edu Review of: Traffic. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Perf. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid. USA Films, 2000. Blow.Dir. Ted Demme. Perf. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Paul Reubens, Ray Liotta. New Line Cinema, 2001. Just as the intoxicating sensations of different drugs are […]
Complicating Complexity: Reflections on Writing about Pictures
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Jerzy O. Jura Foreign Languages and Literatures Iowa State University GeorgeOJ@aol.com Review of: James Elkins, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity.New York and London: Routledge, 1999. The Tempest (La tempestad), a 1997 best-selling Spanish novel by Juan Manuel de Prada, not only borrows its title from the […]
The Ecstasy of Speed
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Srdjan Smajic English Department Tulane University ssmajic@tulane.edu Review of: Paul Virilio, A Landscape of Events.Trans. Julie Rose. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Those who are familiar with Paul Virilio’s work on dromology, or the logic and effects of speed, may have noticed by now a paradox in the manner in which he addresses […]
As Radical as Reality Itself
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Helen Grace School of Humanities University of Western Sydney h.grace@uws.edu.au Review of: Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Such imaginings, freed from the constraints of bounded spaces and from the dictates of unilinear time, might dream of becoming, in Lenin’s words, […]
Against Postmodernism, etcetera–A Conversation with Susan Sontag
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Evans Chan evanschan@aol.com This interview took place in late July, 2000 at Susan Sontag’s penthouse apartment in Chelsea on a sunny, tolerably hot day. Just as I entered the building, Sontag’s assistant was returning from some errands and we went up the elevator together. As we opened the apartment door, Sontag was emptying some […]
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Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance 1
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Rita Raley Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara raley@english.ucsb.edu Node 1: Charting The *system* is the art, not the output, not the visual screen, and not the code. I want to let the data express itself in the most beautiful possible way. –Net artist Lisa Jevbratt, in Alex Galloway’s “Perl is […]
Surveillance Sites: Digital Media and the Dual Society in Keith Piper’s Relocating the Remains
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Ashley Dawson English Department College of Staten Island–CUNY University of Iowa ashley-dawson@uiowa.edu This past July, the Tampa, Florida Police Department introduced a computerized surveillance system to augment its efforts to monitor the streets of a downtown business and entertainment district for potential miscreants.1 The system, built by Visionics Corporation of New Jersey and offered […]
Other than Postmodern?–Foucault, Pynchon, Hybridity, Ethics
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Frank Palmeri Department of English University of Miami fpalmeri@miami.edu In what might be understood as tracing a paradigm shift in postmodern culture (Kuhn), practicing an archaeology of the contemporary (Foucault), or reporting on the conditions of current knowledge (Lyotard), this essay suggests that a moment of high postmodernism dominant in the sixties, seventies, and […]
“Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish”: (Re)constructing Body, Genre, and Gender in Feminist Rap
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Suzanne Bost Department of English James Madison University bostsm@jmu.edu Often black people can only say in tone, in nuance, in the set of the mouth, or in the shifting of the eyes what language alone cannot say. Perhaps because of the ambivalence we feel about language, we must put the body itself to […]
The Otherness of Light: Einstein and Levinas
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David Grandy Department of Philosophy Brigham Young University david_grandy@byu.edu In his Downcast Eyes, Martin Jay alerts readers to “the ubiquity of visual metaphors” in Western thought and warns that nonchalance or blindness toward such “will damage our ability to inspect the world outside and introspect the world within” (1). This judgment, Jay quickly notes, […]