Category: Volume 13 – Number 1 – September 2002
“Hip Librarians, Dweeb Chic: Romances of the Archive.” A review of Suzanne Keen. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001.
November 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Amy J. Elias Department of English University of Tennessee aelias2@utk.edu Suzanne Keen. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001. “Understanding, which separates men from brutes,” writes Suzanne Keen of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, “amounts to an enumeration of debts” (69). This statement asserts that in […]
On Joseph Tate’s “Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction,” Postmodern Culture 13.1.
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Volume 13, Number 1 September, 2002 The following responses were submitted by PMC readers using regular e-mail or the PMC Reader’s Report form. Not all letters received are published, and published letters may have been edited. Copyright (c) 2002 by the authors, all rights reserved. This text may be used […]
Photo-Performance in Cyberspace: The CD-ROMs of Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Andrew Kimbrough Guangdong University of Foreign Studies andrewmkimbrough@yahoo.com Frozen Palaces. CD-ROM by Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment. Collected on artintact 5, produced by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM), 1999. Buchhandelsausgabe/Trade Edition; and Nightwalks. CD-ROM by Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells with Forced Entertainment. Sheffield, UK: Forced Entertainment, […]
What is Postanarchism “Post”?
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Jesse Cohn English Department Purdue University North Central jcohn@purduenc.edu Saul Newman, From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2001. Newly resurgent anarchist movements, shaking the streets from Seattle to Genoa, are caught in a field of tension between two magnetic poles: Eugene, Oregon, and Plainfield, Vermont. Eugene […]
The Victorian Postmodern
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Jason Camlot English Department Concordia University camlot@vax2.concordia.ca John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, eds., Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000. Consider the following “true” story as an exemplum for approaching the idea of the Victorian postmodern: in the mid-1990s, artist and critic Todd Alden asked […]
Saussure and the Grounds of Interpretation
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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David Herman Department of English North Carolina State University dherman@unity.ncsu.edu Roy Harris, Saussure and His Interpreters. New York: New York UP, 2001. The author of a 1983 English translation of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale, as well as two previous books centering on Saussure’s theories of language (Reading Saussure and […]
Documentary Prison Films and the Production of Disciplinary Institutional “Truth”
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Janet Holtman Department of English Pennsylvania State University jmh403@psu.edu Power “produces reality” before it represses. Equally it produces truth before it ideologizes, abstracts or masks. –Gilles Deleuze, Foucault In The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Fredric Jameson distinguishes between a “properly Marxian notion of an all-embracing and all-structuring mode […]
“You Have Unleashed a Horde of Barbarians!”: Fighting Indians, Playing Games, Forming Disciplines
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Christopher Douglas Department of English Furman University christopher.douglas@furman.edu We are about four or five years into the formation of a new discipline, digital game studies. Though by one account computer games have been around for more than four decades (Aarseth), and by another computer and video game sales in the United States are rivaling […]
Reading Gravity’s Rainbow After September Eleventh: An Anecdotal Approach
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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David Rando Department of English Cornell University dpr27@cornell.edu Since the September Eleventh airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, it is difficult to imagine American readers responding to the opening sentences of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbowin quite the same ways as they had previously. “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, […]
The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11, and the War of Good and Evil
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002 |
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Bradley Butterfield Department of English University of Wisconsin, La Crosse butterfi.brad@uwlax.edu In the end it was they who did it but we who wished it. If we do not take this into account, the event loses all symbolic dimension; it becomes a purely arbitrary act. . . . (A)nd in their strategic symbolism the […]