Category: Volume 12 – Number 2 – January 2002
Notices
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12.2 January, 2002 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. Publication Announcements […]
They’re Here, They’re Everywhere
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Andreas Kitzmann Institute for Culture and Communication University of Karlstad, Sweden andreas.kitzmann@kau.se Review of: Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000. Jeffrey Sconce’s Haunted Media confirms a familiar suspicion. There is something lurking within the electronic devices that surround us: something more than just organized […]
Trekking Time with Serres
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Niran Abbas Department of Digital Media Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds niranabbas@hotmail.com Review of: Maria Assad, Reading with Michel Serres: An Encounter with Time. SUNY Press, 1999. Michel Serres is one of the few philosophers who can genuinely lay claim to the title of “specialist generalist” (Dale and Adamson). He […]
Sexuality’s Failure: The Birth of History
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Jason B. Jones School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology jason.jones@lcc.gatech.edu Review of: Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality.Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. Charles Shepherdson, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 2000. In an interview familiar to English readers, “The Confession of the Flesh,” there is a terse exchange […]
Profit and Stealth in the Prison-Industrial Complex
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Alexander H. Pitofsky Department of English Appalachian State University pitofskyah@appstate.edu Review of: Joseph T. Hallinan, Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation. New York: Random House, 2002. In this cogent, wide-ranging study, Joseph Hallinan examines the ways in which the American penal system has been transformed during the last twenty years. […]
A Legacy of Freaks
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Christopher Pizzino Department of Literatures in English Rutgers University pizzino@fas-english.rutgers.edu Review of: Slavoj Zizek, The Fragile Absolute, or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? New York: Verso, 2000. In one of the more arresting moments in The Fragile Absolute, Slavoj Zizek connects the Pauline concept of agape, commonly known as Christian […]
Returning to the Mummy
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Lisa Hopkins School of Cultural Studies Sheffield Hallam University L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk Review of: The Mummy Returns.Dir. Stephen Sommers. Perf. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo. MCA/Universal, 2002. On her arrival at a pre-election Conservative Party rally at the Plymouth Pavilion in May 2002, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cracked a rare joke. […]
Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland
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Matthew Hart Department of English University of Pennsylvania matthart@english.upenn.edu Review of: Irvine Welsh, Glue.New York: Norton, 2002. There’s a passage in Bill Buford’s celebrated account of football violence, Among the Thugs, that is relevant to the question of Irvine Welsh’s Scottishness. Buford is on the Italian island of Sardinia, amidst a rioting crowd […]
The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce
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By Thomas Swiss and Seb Chevrel ENTER: The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce Author’s Note
“What’s It Like There?”: Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo
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Jim Hicks English and Comparative Literature Smith College james@transpan.it Figure 1 “What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities?” — Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts In order to begin, I’ll have to confess: what follows here will be an essay in the early sense of […]
Marxism, Postmodernism, Zizek
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Brian Donahue Department of English Gonzaga University donahue@gonzaga.edu This essay begins in the midst of the ongoing dilemma posed by late-capitalist society and postmodern culture, namely, whether these remain the ultimate horizon of the contemporary world and whether efforts to resist, oppose, represent critically, or propose alternatives to the “cultural dominant” of postmodernism are […]
Inhuman Love: Jane Campion’s The Piano
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Samir Dayal English Department Bentley College sdayal@bentley.edu Introduction: What Does the Woman Want? The release of Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) was almost an epochal event. It arrived to mark the zenith of a phase of extraordinary creativity in Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, […]
Practical Politics at the Limits of Community: The Cases of Affirmative Action and Welfare
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Scott Michaelsen Department of English Michigan State University smichael@pilot.msu.edu and Scott Cutler Shershow Department of English Miami University shershsc@muohio.edu As soon as, through the movement of those forces tending toward a break, revolution appears as something possible, with a possibility that is not abstract, but historically and concretely determined, then in those […]