Category: Volume 12 – Number 3 – May 2002
Notices
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Volume 12, Number 3 May, 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. […]
Gursky’s Sublime
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Caroline Levine Department of English Rutgers University-Camden levinec@camden.rutgers.edu Review of: Andreas Gursky. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 4 March – 15 May 2001. Exhibition Website Peter Galassi. Andreas Gursky. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001. The modernist avant-garde made a gesture of rejecting popular entertainment and the commodification […]
Computable Culture and the Closure of the Media Paradigm
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William B. Warner Digital Cultures Project Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara warner@english.ucsb.edu Review of: Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media.Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2000. Most scholars of modern media now agree that the shift of symbolic representation to a global digital information network is as systemic and pervasive a […]
Information and the Paradox of Perspicuity
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Samuel Gerald Collins Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Towson University scollins@towson.edu Review of: Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. Reacting against the Boasian study of myths for “historical data,” Claude Levi-Strauss urged anthropologists to look […]
Maintaining the Other
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Kelly Pender Rhetoric and Composition Program English Department Purdue University penderk@purdue.edu Review of: Simon Critchley, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought. London: Verso, 1999. In his latest collection of essays, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity, Simon Critchley extends and modifies the discussion of deconstruction and ethics that he put forward […]
The Deus Ex-Machina
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Juan E. de Castro Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines jdecastr@mines.edu Review of: Jerry Hoeg, Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 2000. During the electoral process of 1990, Alberto Fujimori, a little-known agricultural engineer and academic, stormed the Peruvian […]
Demonstration and Democracy
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Arkady Plotnitsky Theory and Cultural Studies Program Department of English Purdue University aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu Review of: Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999. Scientists are becoming more attentive to and are addressing more openly the relationships between politics and science. (Many scientists have of course–at least […]
Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
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Joseph Tate Department of English University of Washington jtate@u.washington.edu I. Introduction: Test Specimens Figure 1 The blinking icon you see above is called a “test specimen.” Wide-eyed bears with murderous grins, drawn alternately as symmetrical, disembodied heads or frantically sketched, stiff-limbed figures, they punctuate the art of the music group Radiohead, from CD packaging […]
Cannibalism and the Chinese Body Politic: Hermeneutics and Violence in Cross-Cultural Perception
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Carlos Rojas Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures University of Florida crojas@ufl.edu One question that always stymies us–that is, why cannot people eat people? Zhu Yu Rumors of cannibalism began to circulate over the internet during the early months of last year (2001), typically accompanied by graphic photos of a […]
Grand Theory/Grand Tour: Negotiating Samuel Huntington in the Grey Zone of Europe
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Dorothy Barenscott Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory University of British Columbia bridot@shaw.ca In conflicts between civilizations, the question is “What are you?” That is a given that cannot be changed. And as we know, from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Sudan, the wrong answer to that question can mean a […]
Blanchot, Narration, and the Event
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Lars Iyer Philosophical Studies Centre for Knowledge, Science and Society University of Newcastle upon Tyne lars.iyer@ncl.ac.uk Trust the tale, not the teller–but what if the identity of the teller is given in the articulation of the tale? What if there would be not only no tale without a teller, but no teller without […]
Benjamin in Bombay? An Extrapolation
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Rajeev S. Patke Department of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellpatke@nus.edu.sg “I searched around those ruins in vain and all I found was a face engraved on a potsherd and a fragment of a frieze. That is what my poems will be in a thousand years–shards, fragments, the detritus of a […]