Category: Volume 13 – Number 2 – January 2003
Notices
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Volume 13, Number 2 January, 2003 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. […]
Good Place and No Place
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Susan Laxton Art History and Archaeology Columbia University Sjl16@columbia.edu Review of: Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley, eds., The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond. New York: The Drawing Center, and Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2001. How can a drawing be activist? Can a graphic mark constitute […]
Accelerating Beyond the Horizon
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Rekha Rosha Department of English and American Literature Brandeis University rosha@brandeis.edu Paul Virilio, A Landscape of Events. Trans. Julie Rose. Cambridge: MIT P, 2000. Architect, political theorist, and cultural critic, Paul Virilio is best known for his phenomenological critique of technology and militarism. In this work, as in his other writings, Virilio contends […]
Zizek’s Second Coming
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Char Roone Miller Department of Public and International Affairs George Mason University cmillerd@gmu.edu Review of: Slavoj Zizek, On Belief. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. “God is dead,” proclaimed Nietzsche’s madman. Many readers, particularly undergraduate students, have been surprised by the passing of God; Nietzsche’s implication that God once lived does not comfortably […]
A Poem Is a Machine to Think With: Digital Poetry and the Paradox of Innovation
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Sandy Baldwin The Center for Literary Computing West Virginia University charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu Review of: Loss Pequeño Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002 A poem is a small (or large) Machine made of words. –William Carlos Williams The odd thing about innovative literature is that no literature […]
Modernism Old or New?
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Piotr Gwiazda Department of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County gwiazda@umbc.edu Review of: Marjorie Perloff, 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. The title of Marjorie Perloff’s new book seems, at first, a little confusing. Does she mean 21st-century postmodernism? No. Then perhaps she means the idea of modernism in the twenty-first […]
“The World Will Be Tlön”: Mapping the Fantastic onto the Virtual
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Darren Tofts Department of Media and Communications Swinburne University of Technology dtofts@groupwise.swin.edu.au The world may be fantastic. The world willbe Tlön. The cartographers of antiquity have left a profound and fearsome legacy. Only now can we speak of its dread morphology. Spurning the severe abstractions of scale, they achieved exact correspondence: the map […]
Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization
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Meyda Yegenoglu Department of Sociology Middle East Technical University meyda@metu.edu.tr The increasing political presence of refugees and immigrants in post-Cold war Europe has generated considerable debate about the nature of multicultural society. The demand for the recognition of cultural, racial, and ethnic differences has come to occupy a central place in the forms of […]
Whatever Image
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Zafer Aracagök Department of Graphic Design Bilkent University aracagok@bilkent.edu.tr The evocative remarks of Giorgio Agamben on the concept of whatever have received relatively little attention. In opening the question of the whatever and its implications for the nature of representation, my intention is to investigate the possibilities for another concept, that is, the […]
Stirner and Foucault: Toward a Post-Kantian Freedom
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Saul Newman Department of Political Science University of Western Australia snewman@cyllene.uwa.edu.au Max Stirner and Michel Foucault are two thinkers not often examined together. However, it has been suggested that the long-ignored Stirner may be seen as a precursor to contemporary poststructuralist thought.1 Indeed, there are many extraordinary parallels between Stirner’s critique of Enlightenment […]
Bioinformatics and Bio-logics
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Eugene Thacker School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology eugene.thacker@lcc.gatech.edu Point-and-Click Biology It is often noted that progress in biotechnology research is as much a technological feat as a medical one. The field of “bioinformatics” is exemplary here, since it is playing a significant role in the various genome projects, the […]